Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We’re left to wonder how ‘The King’ will be remembered. He wasn’t the fastest horse in history, nor the most versatile or breathtaking. He was, however, brutally durable, crazily competitive and always prepared to face the battles that mattered. In basketball terms he was Bill Russell, in tennis terms he was Novak Djokovic and in cricketing […]
Harness racing in the South Island of New Zealand is on the nose, and the smell is so bad that the stench floats all the way across to the Great Barrier Reef. It’s not global warming that is killing the coral, it’s drug cheating and race fixing coming out of Woodend Beach. Race 4 at […]
I’m a completely clean trainer and can sleep well at night because I’m a honest trainer just trying my best I’m glad your a fan – Ben Hope, promising young trot trainer swimming down the wrong stream You are wrong Ben, we are not a fan. We think you are a young smart arse who […]
Adam Hamilton raised an interesting point in his column this week on thetrots.com.au when he stated his belief that Kevin Seymour’s NSW Derby winner Leap To Fame was still at this stage only the 3rd best three-year-old in Australasia behind the Kiwi star Akuta and the Victorian based Catch a Wave. I thought I would […]
This is what’s wrong with harness racing. We glorify people who should be thrown head first out of the sport. Yesterday we told you about Jack ‘Breaker’ Laugher copping his umpteenth suspension for whip rule breach offences, which are acts of abject animal cruelty under another name. Breaker’s latest 5 week suspension was deferred to […]
There was a terrible accident in the last race at the Albury trots on Tuesday night. Three horses fell. One died. Two of the drivers were propelled out of their carts into the hard surface of the track. The other was flung ten feet in the air, like a stuntman in an action movie. He […]
Vladimir Putin has emailed this to us and asked if we could print it. In the interest of loving peace not war we have agreed, on the proviso that he throws Summit’s swabs in the bin. Mr Putin says he doesn’t have to, he’s got KGB spies in the Stewards ranks doing it already. A […]
Are these South Australian harness racing Stewards (a) absolute morons; (b) wilfully ignorant; (c) corrupt and in on the joke; or (d) all of the above? Based on the evidence of long observation I have come to the conclusion that they must be one or more of these things, for the poor decisions they make […]
Decron Horse Care is a highly reputable company run by Copy That’s owner Merv Butterworth, a good and honourable man and a great supporter of harness racing. What a great shame it is that Merv’s generous sponsorship of the Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Drivers Championship was blighted by the series being won by Jack ‘Breaker’ […]
Now I have to confess that I went to primary school in the lower working class borough of Geebung, which means like other kids from the mean streets school I learned at an early age to fight and run and punt and play footy and drink and smoke and stand up to bullies and give […]
