Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In the year 2010 Harness Racing Victoria paid $33.7 million in prizemoney to participants. By 2020 the total stakes had increased to $41.6 million. You little ripper. An additional $7.9 million has been injected into harness racing. Well yes, but no, and not quite. Nine million more is being paid out in prizemoney compared to […]
Gilbert Myles was a Robert Muldoon loving rank and file member of the NZ National Party (their equivalent of the LNP or the Liberal Party) who in 1990 stood as a stooge in the seemingly unwinnable seat of Roskill in Auckland – which had been held by Labour since 1957, and was considered the safest […]
What is wrong with this picture? The simple answer? Everything. Harness Racing Victoria is failing on every key indicator and metric that matters to the industry and to those in it, except prizemoney. We will come to that later. The number of meetings has dropped by over ten percent in ten years, and there […]
It was truly wonderful to see Bailey McDonough and his Dad with whom he has recently physically reconnected after years living on other sides of the continent win their way through to the final of the Victorian Derby in the heats on Saturday night with Blitzern. Bailey’s was a heady, patient, mature and all round […]
Wasn’t it nice of Captain Crunch to sponsor the NZ Harness Racing Awards this year? I am not quite sure how he actually did it, given that the Captain is a horse and thus can’t read, write, operate a bank account or hold any assets, but it was lovely of the shuttle sire to think […]
Is Victorian harness racing really that poor that it needs to sacrifice 107 years of history and name it’s premiere blue riband classic after an American horse that not only never won the race, but has never even raced in the country? Really? The Lather Up Victorian Derby. It fills me with disgust even writing […]
So what do we make of the result of the Canterbury Classic run at Addington on Friday night? A few things. The winner South Coast Arden is the most improved pacer in New Zealand, or perhaps more correctly, a highly talented pacer who has now put it all together. He is a tough, fast fighting machine […]
For the first 19 years of its existence no horse won the Miracle Mile twice. Then in 1986 and 1988 Village Kid did it, and over the next 23 years six others horses did too. Westburn Grant, Chokin, Holmes DG, Sokyola, Be Good Johnny, and Smoken Up. A decade went by until King of Swing […]
Vic Derby Heat 1 Bondi Lockdown American Dealer? American Dealer Bondi Lockdown? The Dealer. By plenty. Vic Derby Heat 2 Two words. Major Moth. Vic Derby Heat 3 The market is totally arse up here. Sugar Me the Kiwi has this field totally covered. Act Now is a great horse, but the NZ form is […]
After all the good work he has done to get him back to the track I’d hate to be the one to shatter trainer Mick Chircop’s dreams, but I don’t think it was the distance that beat him in the Kilmore Cup. I just think he’s buggered, and that his stop start career is all […]
