Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Miss Serena is a four-year-old mare who started her racing life in Western Australia. She had sixteen starts there for just one win and two placings. That sole win was in a lowly late season 2-year-old affair at Northam in a time of 2.01.5. The horses Miss Serena beat in that race have gone on […]
Sometime after her gross flop at Bankstown on the 6th of September, Miss Serena was transferred to the stable of Andrew Ison, who is based in the tiny isolated locale of Warral, located to the south-west of Tamworth. Andrew Ison used to be just a battler, but in recent times had transformed into a miracle […]
Arma Veyron is a very fast horse off the gate. In 11 starts in Queensland it has sped off the arm, led, and either held the front or handed up, with the exception of when it was drawn 5 and came across quick to the death, and when it drew one off the back line […]
Noddy wasn’t the only one who looked at his sister Narissa’s actions at the start. The Stewards did too. Narissa McMullen sat at the rear on Arma Veyron after jagging it back off the gate. She pulled it out on the turn, when it was far too late, and went a hundred wide. It got […]
Rule 156(2)(a) A driver shall only apply the whip in a wrist only flicking motion whilst holding a rein in each hand with the tip of the whip pointed forward in an action which does not engage the shoulder. (b) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (a), “wrist only flicking motion” means:- […]
Take a look at Darren Billinger on the leader Futurist here in race 2 at Globe Derby Park on Saturday night. Darren certainly had a good look too. He was looking for Futurist’s stablemate Breach the Beach, which was behind him. When Billinger spotted him he started driving Futurist on one rein – the left […]
We have written at length about the absurdity of the weekly Group 3 race at Menangle, and the stupidity of the Harness Racing Australia (HRA) policy that makes it possible by mandating a minimum prizemoney level for Group races without any criteria for rating a race as one, other than if a club can stump […]
On the 14th of July this year, and many times before and after, we published stories telling you how the current custodians of the Auckland and Franklin Trotting Club and all the assets that they (the clubs, not the board members: not a cent of it is theirs) owned have turned the two once great […]
I was planning to write a story about how disappointing Wold Stride, this year’s 3rd place finisher in the Miracle Mile, had been when finishing last in the Maryborough Cup on Sunday afternoon. As is my custom, and as as part of my research for all stories, I went back to watch the replay a […]
In recent months there has been a rash of poorly performing favourites in harness races in Victoria. I don’t mean favourites just being beaten, I am referring to short priced runners that are putting in runs so far below their usual standard of form that it jumps out off the page at you, and makes […]
