Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I wrote earlier this week about the tantalising future clash of the three great 5-year-old pacing titans, Ride High, Self Assured and Lochinvar Art. There was something I did’t tell you. Lochinvar Art will be racing for a new stable. His trainer/driver David Moran (pictured at top) is about to be disqualified from the sport […]
28 July 2015 Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards concluded an Inquiry today into the betting activities of licensed Trainer and Driver Mr David Moran, including a bet placed in Race 4 at the Leeton Harness Meeting on 30 January 2015, a race in which Mr Moran was engaged as a driver. Mr Moran […]
A Kiwi pacer named RECKON IM SMART made it’s Australian debut in race 1 at Bendigo on Tuesday afternoon in a very weak NR 0-51 event, which for those unfamiliar with harness racing rating systems is the equivalent of a Class 1 at the gallops or a Grade 7 at the dogs. In other words, […]
Barkaway Arnold is a cat. A nice cat, and one who tries his hardest too. But a cat nevertheless. He is 11 years old, and a pacer. Most pacers are well and truly retired at Barkaway Arnold’s age, but not him, because he is consistent. At his past ten starts Arnie has run 1.57.5, and […]
Eddie Lohmeyer (top), and Alan Galloway below. Doppelgangers. Pacific Rocket was the pacer who ran the previous fastest quarter mile in world history. His trainer was a bloke named Ed Lohmeyer, a highly successful businessman whose first love was the trots. Ed’s other passion outside of work and his family was flying vintage light aircraft. […]
Better Eclipse won the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire at Menangle last night, and gains an automatic entry into the Miracle Mile. It shouldn’t have, for Better Eclipse has got a past. A real shady one too. Craig Hoban used to train the horse. He lost his licence at the end of a glass pipe […]
Alright. Watch this. You are looking at the horse on the inside, the one in the maroon and white. Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor is it’s driver. Watch his foot. And while you are doing so, ask yourself whether horses deserve to be kicked hard to make them run faster, or least as fast as they can […]
I would smile like the Cheshire Cat too if I had accidentally stumbled upon the golden cross. In fact, I do, because I did. How lucky is Darrel Graham who I used to play footy against as a kid, and reunited with later in life? How lucky am I? In 4-legged harness racing the golden […]
