Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last night in the first at Menangle a horse named Pete’s Said So was backed from $34 into $13 on TAB fixed price market, and into as short as $10 with other bookies. The horse is from the Robbie Morris camp. Robbie is well connected in NSW harness racing. It was red hot this race. […]
In a lifetime of watching the trots, and attending every Inter Dominion for near on 50 years, I have never, ever seen a horse try to bite a drivers head off in the first race on the card on the first night of the heats. Never. Until now. Jack Callaghan, stand up and take a […]
It was a funny old night at Bathurst. The fave in the 1st blew from $1.60 to $1.95, got planted in the death outside the 2nd fave and got beaten a head, in a deceptive finish in which it appeared that driver Amy Day stopped driving and took a huge grip three strides too early. […]
Colin De Felippi is one of New Zealand’s oldest and most successful trot drivers. Flip’s been around forever, and at age 69 has learnt more tricks than the average punter has had hot dinners. He’s got away with more than a few of them over the years too. Not this one. See the horse in […]
Australia’s cleanest and most honest trainer/driver pair David Kennedy and Jackson painting have uncovered the new Lombo Pocket Watch. Remember Lombo Pocket Watch? He was that champion Mick Lombardo owned colt who won 17 of his 18 starts as a 2-year-old, and became the first horse of that age to ever be named Australian Pacer […]
Miss Puediepie is an average sort of low class mare who had been going like a busted arse all year. Sure she won a weak sex and class restricted race at Coolamon in April, but the mares she beat were walkers, and her final quarters of 30.9 and 31.3 for a last half of 62.2 […]
A fortnight ago we wrote about the amazing run of success being enjoyed by trot trainer Tim Williams, and told you how he had improved a slow old horse named Manly Mach so much that he had taken 5.6 seconds off it’s previous best time when winning a race with it at Menangle. Well, in […]
A story published this morning based on information provided to the author, coupled with the ‘facts’ stated in the official Stewards Report, has subsequently proven to be incorrect. We apologise to Ms Hannah Van Dongen, and in particular to Mr Lane O’Shannessey for the erroneous report reprinted from the Steward;s findings that there was an […]
Have a read of this. It’s a story that appeared in the Perth newspaper the West Australian yesterday. It’s true too. But it’s not the full truth. This couple involved are a high profile WA harness trainer and his wife. The husband played stick and ball at the Olympics for Australia. It seems the love […]
Mafuta is Swahili for fat. Mafuta Vautin. Fatty Vautin. It’s a cracker, but there’s one thing Darrel didn’t know when he named it. Words have multiple meanings in the Swahili language. Mafuta also means anointed. The chosen one. Dreams. They can come true. Remember when Fatty’s boys won Origin? He was punting next to me […]
