Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is a video posted on the Woodlands Stud website. It is not a spontaneous discussion with Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon. It is a scripted, expensively produced short film designed to promote the sire Bettors Delight, with a view to encouraging broodmare owners to have their mares serviced by him. Woodlands Stud is owned […]
As part of its ongoing commitment to reform and reinvigorate the industry, HRSA recently undertook to review all financial processes. The review focused on future sustainability and financial pathways for the industry in South Australia and encompassed all aspects of the industry operations. HRSA would like to confirm that the rumoured ‘80/20’ model is not a […]
Des Nolan (2nd from right) is a farrier who runs a family owned horse products supply business in South Australia. He is also father of a young daughter, and reportedly a devout family man who ferries his daughter to and from school, music lessons, sports training and games, and play dates. A normal person would […]
We are going to write at length about Harness Racing Australia’s new ‘Advance Australia’ concept paper released today, and examine the issue from both the for and against sides. Just for now though we want to alert you to the politics of the issue. Harness Racing Australia is governed by votes, as detailed in the […]
What’s going on over there in New Zealand on Cup Day is just so ridiculous that it makes a mockery of the game. Mark Purdon has driven the winners of five of the seven races so far. The last two were legless at their last starts, absolutely legless. 18 days ago All About Faith ran […]
The Breeders Crown is a very interesting race series that tends to showcase the best 2 and 3-year-old’s in Australia, and sometimes New Zealand too, but it is hardly the great advertisement for yearling sales that it should be. 3 of the 6 winners of the three-year-old heats were bred by their owners, and never […]
What is wrong with this picture? Everything. The Breeders Crown is the harness racing equivalent of the Golden Slipper and the Caulfield Guineas. Harness Racing NSW will disagree, but they are the ones restricting their premier age group races to pacers with a NSW connection, not HRV whose championship is open to all comers. Imagine […]
I can’t remember the last time that Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor went ten starts without a win as a trainer. It certainly hasn’t happened in his last 100 starters. Not until now anyway. Turbo’s phone got seized by the HRNSW Stewards on the 24th of October. He hasn’t trained a winner from his ten runners since. […]
… I also can’t remember the last time that Jason Grimson went 10 starts without a winner. He hasn’t missed the mark in his past 100 starts either. Until now. Weird hey? Remember that nursery rhyme they used to sing us when we were kids?
In the same race in which Deus Ex galloped – the $30 000 Group 3 Be Good Johnny Sprint – driver Chantal Turpin propelled her horse Will The Wizard off the gate and attacked the leader and favourite Turnitup mercilessly, forcing that horse’s driver Shane Graham to run a suicidal 26.6 second first quarter and […]
