Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In Australian racing parlance a bowler is someone who pretends to be doing something, when in fact someone else is doing it. In US racing they call the person a beard. A lot of people around the traps say that a former long-time stable hand named Craig Cross is a bowler for his relative and […]
South Australian harness racing is about as healthy as an 80 year old pack a smoker with COVID. This announcement was made today by Harness Racing SA. The Southern Cross Series is their equivalent of the NSW Breeders Challenge, or the Vic Bred Super Series, or the Triad in Queensland. In other words it is […]
Tamworth harness trainer-driver Stacey Elliott was charged with cobalt offences in October. She is guilty of presenting horses to race with banned substance in their systems, but it wasn’t her fault. This hasn’t come out publicly yet, but you can take it as read that the feed she was sold by supplier Furneys Stockfeeds was […]
Norm Torpey has been around the Queensland stewarding ranks for a long time now, and has held some very senior positions within the ranks of the QRIC and it’s successors (and been demoted from them). Torpey is supposed to be one of the better stipes in the north, but I personally wouldn’t pay two cents […]
Poor old Emma Stewart had on off night at Melton in the semi-finals of the Breeders Crown on Wednesday didn’t she? Stewart managed just six winners from the ten finals she contested, which I am sure you will agree was rather piss poor, a rank failure if you have ever seen one. So was her haul […]
The mail out of Sydney is that another former employee of Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny is about to be appointed to the board. Adam Fairley is his name, the former long-time HRNSW Manger of Industry Development, and the Handicapper and Racing Manager before that. It is said that Fairley – who has been […]
You would have to be kidding wouldn’t you? The pacer with the form you see above has just won a race at Redcliffe by more than sixty metres, in a mile rate of 1.56.0. That’s preposterous. Im Plain Jane’s average over it’s past 10 starts has been 2.02.6. It has just run almost 100 metres […]
Question Why does the auction house Australian Pacing Gold (APG) own a two-year-pacer named Captain Ravishing that is competing in races, and won at Melton on Tuesday? Question What happened to $80 000 sale of the horse to buyer A. Portelli at last year’s APG Sydney yearling sales? Question If the sale fell through, why […]
See this pacer Mach Quillan in the photo above, the one in race 9 at Geraldine that was backed from $9.00 into $3.20 on the NZ TAB fixed price, and plunged similarly if not more with the TAB and the corporates in Australia? It won by four and a half lengths, under triple wraps. The […]
You read our story yesterday about Globe Derby only having had enough horses entered to put 6 races on Saturday night’s card. Well the reason is that all the good horses went to Mildura to race last night. I counted 21 of them, which is a hell of a lot considering the distance they had […]
