Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A 23-year-old licensed harness racing participant from Tasmania was arrested at Sydney airport on the weekend after being discovered with more than $90 000 in cash concealed upon their person. The participant, who is a member of a long established harness racing family that is well-known on both sides of the Bass Strait, was detained […]
Driver Leonard Cain (pictured) should be charged with an unacceptable drive on Lostandfound in the last race at Redcliffe tonight and given stiff time. Lostandfound was the heavily backed $1.35 favorite for the race, and was given no chance at all of winning by Cain. He took it off the arm fast, but not quite […]
Some changes may have to be made to field for the Tasmanian BOTRA Novice Drivers Series, given recent turns of events. Things never seem to go right for Tassie harness racing. As the Scottish poet Robert Burns famously told us, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley. This is what happens […]
Everyone’s favorite unregistered Kiwi trot syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald (pictured at top) is up to his old hyper-inflation of shares trick again. The Canary recently bought a moderately performed tried 6-year-old pacer named Star Magic for $8500 from an online Gavelhouse auction. He is selling shares in Star Magic for $1150 per 5 percent, […]
The race before the Nullarbor on Friday night is just as interesting as the main event is, and has the potential to be as exciting too. Race 9 the DOWNLOAD THE APP 3YO CADECEUS CLUB CLASSIC PRELUDE NO.3 features the two best 3-year-old pacers in WA, but in this writer’s considered view two of the […]
The Nullarbor field is out, and the betting market has been turned upside down by the draw. Swayzee, who was $1.70 on Ladbrokes this morning before gate numbers were pulled from the barrel, has blown out the door to $3.00 after drawing the inside of the second row on the tight half mile Gloucester Park […]
Archie, Concerning the absurd scheduling of the race at 9.36 pm WST or 11.36 pm EST. What a bizarre decision. (Gloucester Park CEO) Michael Radley has been rabbiting on for ages about the necessity to leverage Eastern States turnover on Harness with early starts. In some instances, 4.00 o’clock starts during daylight savings in the […]
Barry Purdon is generally regarded as the best trot trainer in history. He has won more premierships than most people have had hot dinners, and won every race worth winning. What Purdon doesn’t know used to be not worth knowing. Not anymore. As good as he is, the Hall of Famer couldn’t get Its Electrifying […]
The disturbing news out of Auckland is that a convicted sex offender – who due to court issued suppression orders we shall refer to only as Offender X – is working for, and on the registered South Auckland training premises of, the largest harness racing operation in New Zealand. 10 Months Home Detention For Convicted […]
We wrote earlier about Cran Dalgety’s star filly Beside Me returning a positive swab to Meloxicam after winning a race at Wyndham earlier in the year. Well it appears as usual that we were right, for although there is no published record of either Dalgety having been charged with an offence by Stewards, or of […]
