Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are some remarkable things about harness racing’s premiership tables around the country this year. Despite training strictly out of Victoria and not having any satellite stables, Emma Stewart still manages to sit in the top ten in four different States – Victoria (1), NSW (4), Tasmania (9) and South Australia (9). Two licensees who […]
After a turbulent year for Victorian harness racing, equilibrium was restored at Melton last night. Well sort of anyway. There were four finals of the Breeders Crown for 2 and 3-year-old pacers, one for each age group and gender. Emma Stewart won them all. Danny Zavitsanos own 2 of them (plus another winner) and Bain/Summit […]
Deni did the double. Minstrel won the Cup. What a mighty horse he is, as tough as teak like Pure Steel. And what a wonderful achievement by Deni Roberts to become the first woman ever to drive two WA Pacing Cup winners. It was a night for celebration all round. https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM12122504.mp4
What the hell was Andre Poutama doing in the trot last night at Alexandra Park behind Oscar Bonavena? Oscar was the highest rated horse in the race by a mile at NR120. The leader was a rating 55 trotter. Common sense dictated that Poutama would bring Oscar around the field early and bore it up the […]
It had been 18 starts since Tizzy Lizzie’s last win in March when she stepped out at Wagga yesterday. At her previous two starts the well tried winner of 8 races from 73 starts had sat in the death over the same track and 1780m distance and been beaten. Tizzy Lizzie’s personal times in those […]
Smoken Ace had won 8 races coming into the NR 76-89 at Geelong on Friday night, the most recent of them 13 starts back in March in an NR 70-79 race at Melton. The fastest winning time it had run in any of them was 1.55.9, also at Melton, in August last year. Last night […]
I had a good go at Captain’s Mistress to win the Group 1 Queen Of Hearts at Alexandra Park. Nathan Williamson drove a bottler. She swept up to the leader in the straight and went straight past. Captain’s Mistress was home to the world. And then with 25m to go the seat fell off. It […]
Bushy Beach, the $1.33 favorite in the 7th race at Tamworth yesterday, got rolled because the driver went too fast early. So fast that he ran a 25.5 second lead time, which I reckon might be close to the fastest first split that we have ever seen over 1980m there. Far too fast. The fave […]
Yet another QLD racing licensee has been outed for submitting a falsified annual Health Assessment Report (HAR), but this time it is a driver at the trots not a jockey. Heather Warland, until last week the holder of a C-Grade harness racing drivers license that permitted her to drive in trackwork and trials but not […]
Veteran QLD trot trainer Al Barnes has been disqualified for 4 months for assaulting the driver of his horse Mullum Judy after it raced at Marburg last month. The crazy thing about it is that the victim was his son! Brendan Barnes drove the horse for his Dad, who obviously got angry about something to […]
