Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The heavy sentences imposed on licensees by HRNSW continue without pause, with trot trainer Jarred Hetherington the latest to fall victim to the Hanging State. Hetherington’s racing ‘crime’ was, like trainer Rye yesterday, one of his horses throwing a positive swab to cobalt. The threshold for cobalt is 100 ug/L (micrograms per litre) of the […]
We have taken to calling NSW the Hanging State when it comes to penalties for rule breach offenders at the trots, and with good reason too. HRNSW Stewards don’t actually hang anyone, but the sentences they hand down to licensees who break the rules are much harsher than in most other jurisdictions, so the sobriquet […]
Rocksie Rock had been backed from $8.00 into $1.80 to win the first race at Penrith last week. It wasn’t pre-race swabbed which I reckon was lucky, because the family have form. The horse didn’t. It had been going ordinary for a while now, about 3 months. There was nothing in its form to suggest […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PCM25102506.mp4 Hollywood Strip goes good but when is Portelli, and the others for that matter, going to learn to drive? He was no hope sitting parked outside Hollywood Strip, so why didn’t he go on with it? Keep going and if Hewitt has half a drivers brain he lets him go and then moves to […]
How often do you see a 2-year-old pacer in a Group 1 classic attacked mercilessly in front and forced to run four sub-28 seconds quarters and still somehow manage to win the race? Not very often is the answer. Which makes what the Brad Hewitt trained Hollywood Strip did last night in taking out the […]
Kiwi import Fitzroy was the heavily backed favorite to win the last race at Albion Park, and with very good reason too for the 2YO had been racing highly competitively against elite company in group class races in New Zealand, and there weren’t any top shelf black type pacers lining up in this race. Punters […]
If Larry goes ordinary again maybe Grant should try the Oscar Bonavova treatment……… Let him cover a few mares and he might get his competitive spirit back! Belle from Burnie ———————— Editor’s note It worked for Bling It On so why not? Mr Seymour has enough mares that he can spare Leap To Fame a […]
If you backed the favorite The Lazarus Effect in the last race at Kaikoura last night you were probably scratching your head and wondering why its trainer and regular driver Bob Butt opted to pilot the lesser fancied stablemate Donmato and put junior driver Seth Hill in the fave’s cart instead. Hold that thought, because […]
Bob Butt is one hell of a trainer, but as a driver he leaves a lot to be desired. In fact the only thing he should drive is a 1 wood, and you’d hope he hit it straighter than he steers. Butt is on the favorite Tactical Bid in race 5. He brings it to […]
The champ has a name, and it’s “Gora Mermerby Escorpion!” That’s the name of the horse former UFC lightweight champion Charles Oliveira drove to victory at a harness racing event in Argentina over the weekend, making this his second big win in two weeks. “Today I realized another great dream of mine, to win in […]
