Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The first casualty of war is the races. Then they cut off the internet, and you can’t punt. All of the rest of the real bad stuff happens after that, but by then I would have given up. Make peace and love, not war. Everyone needs to punt. And to stay alive to do it […]
Will He Rock (Willy) is a 4-year-old New Zealand pacer. Willy’s also a walker. Prior to today he Willy had raced 14 times. He had run duck egg – tenth or worse – including at of his ten past starts. Eighth were the other two. Willy’s average beaten margin over those ten starts was more […]
On the 22nd of December 2021 a NSW trot trainer named Michael ‘Mickey’ Muscat raced a very appropriately named pacer called Knight Walker in the first on the card at a TAB meeting at Bathurst. The horse went exactly as its name suggested, like a busted arse. It sat in the death and got beaten […]
The prospect of running the Miracle Mile at Menangle on Saturday night are looking bleaker and bleaker by the minute. Like many trots tracks, Menangle was built in a flood basin, and the whole joint’s under water. That’s not then worst of it. The track sits next to the Nepean River. It is at its […]
To Infinitynbeyond is a 10-year-old pacer who until yesterday had not won a race for 5 years. I’m not sure whether that is a record for the longest gap ever between wins, but gee if its not it must be close. In his whole long life as a racer, the old pacer had never won […]
This is Menangle this morning. The flood levels are predicted to rise before the fall. “We can’t race on a half mile track” the trainers scream. What do they race the Little Brown Jug on fellas? You know, the world’s most famous race, the one that all the greats win. Forbes Chief, Tar Heel, Adios […]
After reading our story about the boxer cum trot trainer Tony Peacock yesterday, racing historian and footy and boxing devotee Gold Coast Greg wrote in to let us know that A. Peacock is the heir of a proud lineage of pugilists who wielded the reins. Huge thanks to Greg for digging the info contained in […]
I have been banging on about hocking in NSW harness racing for months now. It’s for a good reason, many of them in fact. Hocking is the practice of kicking your horse in the back of the leg to propel it forward, the purpose being to inflict pain on the horse to tell it not […]
Take a look at this disgraceful piece of abhorrent animal abuse inflicted on the horse Comet Crusader by its driver Blake Hughes in the 2nd heat of the NSW Derby last Saturday week. Comet Crusader is the horse on the inside rail in the white. The one gone and going backwards. Hughes left right saws […]
Stop smiling Mr Seymour AM. You’ll be wrong one day. Maybe. Perhaps. Dear Moses Ever since you got and The Colt got done like a paua fritter by the Kiwis in ID2019 I have been bagging you. Time and time again I have written that you are to big race driving what hollandaise sauce is […]
