Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Now driver Phoebe Betts is only eighteen and still learning her craft at the professional level, so I am loathe to be critical of one of her drives. But she has had 607 of them now, and this one is so highly questionable that it cannot really be allowed to pass without comment. We are […]
We were wrong yesterday when we wrote that the phones of Jack Trainor, Jack Brown and James McPherson were seized after the last race. They were in fact seized before the first. HRNSW Stewards told the licensees – including the 17-year-old Brown (we said yesterday he was 16; we are advised that he recently had […]
So trainer Graham Dwyer – who we told you a few days back was throwing high but just under threshold TCO2 reads as quick as Grant Dixon lately – turns out two runners at Redcliffe last night. One is Harps, which is a lovely name. Turbo Trainor had it until a month ago. He got […]
If the South Australian harness racing authorities can’t get the fields and drivers right, then they should not publish them, for all it does is mislead the public and make them look stupid. Gaita Pullicino is a wonderful driver, but for obvious reasons she cannot possibly drive three horses in a single race. She can’t […]
There has been further news out of Menangle about the phone seizures by Stewards on Saturday night, and it is not good. It seems that the two licensees other than Jack Trainor whose phones were taken under the extraordinary powers invoked by the Stewards were James McPherson and Jack Brown, and that they were compulsorily […]
The mail coming out of Menangle is that uber-successful young trainer and personality around western Sydney town Jack Trainor is sans telephone at the moment, and so are two of his stable staff, one of whom is believed to be the talented young horseman James McPherson. It seems that the Stewards for some reason or […]
Over the past couple of years Brian Portelli has emerged from relative obscurity to become one of NSW leading trainers, and now boasts a stable full of young stars headed by Smaltese and Tasty Delight, who although only two and three respectively have won almost $400 000 between them, with the promise of many more […]
Enhance Your Calm is a square gaiter that two years ago won the Harness Jewels when in the All Stars barn. He has won two Group 1’s (and run 2nd in another), a Group 2 and a Group 3. Less than 3 months ago he beat NZ’s two best trotters Sundees Son and Majestic Man […]
Self-Assured is a super horse. He ran 53.2 seconds for his last half, and a sizzling 25.7 seconds for the final 400m. Sure they ran 1.5 seconds slower overall than the track record holder Eamon Maguire did in 2018, bit that horse like the runner-up here Classie Brigade did it up the sprint lane from […]
This is an ugly picture isn’t it? Harness racing in Queensland has lost nearly $40 million over the past six years. The losses are year on year, with no profit or break square periods in between. Thoroughbred and Greyhound racing are paying for these losses. Those two codes are subsiding harness racing prizemoney to the […]
