Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
A trainer presenting a horse to race when not free of prohibited substances is what’s known as a strict liability offence. As far as guilt or innocence goes there is only the former if your horse throws a positive swab. Even if you can prove from the recordings made by your stable security cameras that […]
Merlin’s time run in winning the Kaikoura Cup at the world’s most beautiful trot track on Monday was the third fastest 2400m from a standing start in New Zealand history behind Eamon Maguire and Lazarus. The difference between the Wizard and that pair is that Eamon Maguire ran his time from the sprint lane trail […]
We told you ten days ago the story of how smart young Kiwi pacer The Lazarus Effect had been driven as dead as a doornail at Addington recently to ensure that it got a favorable front row draw in the $50 000 sales series race at Kaikoura today. Well the plan worked to perfection. The […]
The race for the NZ Trotting Cup just heated up big time after Merlin’s outstanding win this afternoon in the Kaikoura Cup in near track record time. New Zealand’s reigning pacer of the year did it the hard way, coming from worse than mid-field at the 1000m to race around and sit outside former star […]
Until now it has been accepted by the Stewards, Appeals Panel and Tribunal that Levamisole is only detectable in a swab for less than a week. This elimination time for the drug is based on an otherwise unrecognized study of 3 horses conducted by the the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory in collaboration with HRNSW, which […]
Sloys Company are a major owner in NSW harness racing. It’s a company run by the Xerri family. They’re not having a lot of luck with their trainers lately. First Michael Doltoff gets disqualified for 13 months over a bute positive. It was his sixth offence. Adam Ruggari takes over for a while but he […]
(a) The Opening Night Ghost Town Gee that’s a great turnout for the opening night of the World Drivers Championship isn’t it? Brad Steele has done a fine job of drumming up interest and excitement about the series. Not. Brisbane’s Ultimate Drivers Challenge puts it to shame. Not because its a better series with better […]
The catalogue for the N40 Reduction Sale is now up on the Nutrien website, and it looks more like a closing down sale than a reduction to me. Almost every horse that N40 owns is up for sale, and most of those that aren’t have already gone. Victoria Oaks winner and N40 stable star Coastal […]
