Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
RACE 3 NO 5 – HE AINT FAKIN Australian pacer turned Kiwi trotter, was very impressive winner at Addington at square gaiting debut. Up against a weak mob here, can repeat the dose. RACE 4 NO 8 – SECRET AGENT MAN Very consistent pacer won 4 and second 3 times from 8 starts to date. […]
One 0f the most interesting runners on today’s NZ Trotting Cup day card is an Australian, but not one of the ones like Leap To Fame or Jilliby Ballerini that everyone is talking about. He Aint Fakin in race 3 the final leg of the World Drivers Championship is the horse in question. This bloke […]
The race for the WA State Trainers title looks like going right down to the wire, with Michael Young and Aiden De Campo – neither of whom has a won a premiership before – clearing right out from the rest of the field on 103 wins (Young) v 101 wins (De Campo), with last year’s […]
Trot trainer Anton Golino not that long ago relocated his training operation and his home from Victoria to NSW, presumably chasing the better prizemoney so he could attempt to make a decent living. Golino spent a lot of time, effort and money to do so. Unfortunately not that long after arriving in NSW one of […]
Hass Taiba (pictured above with the horse) is best known in racing circles as the former owner of one-time star pacer Captain Ravishing, which was sold to one of Mr Brightside’s part owners earlier this year and transferred to WA. It seems Hass will be having Christmas lunch inside this year. What a terrible way […]
Until tonight I have never had cause to doubt Cameron Hart’s honesty as a driver. But after what I just saw in the 2nd race at Newcastle tonight, I do now. Hart was driving the $1.75 favorite Our Ultimate Jessy, the winner of it past two and the highest rated horse in the field. Jessy […]
While the cats were all away watching the Cup week races, the mice came out to play at the Redcliffe trots. The mice in this case being crafty Peter Greig and his group of punters, who pulled off the most daring plunge all week, with virtually no-one noticing except the bleeding bookies. The Real Vanessa […]
For the second year in succession the Albion Park Harness Racing Club has posted an annual loss of circa three-quarters of a million dollars. It is not all the club management or committee’s fault. They have to a large degree kept spending under control by cutting back on discretionary items of expenditure such as marketing […]
Pink Scooter is a lowly rated 5-year-old pacer with a record of 51 starts for just 2 wins, the most recent of them coming at Dubbo in December last year. The horse has had 25 starts since then without troubling the judge, and his personal times in each of them were somewhat slow to say […]
Paul Tonkin (no relation to Clayton Tonkin) and Lindsay Rogers are Victorian harness trainers. Both men suffer from chronic pain from incurable back injuries, and each takes a heavy duty medication called Tapentadol to help alleviate the pain that they endure from dawn to dusk and all the time in between. Tonkin and Rogers each […]
