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Gordon Banks and Marc Hanover’s Amazing Dream Run Continues – Almost Enjoy it While You Can Boys – The Best Mare in the World is Back and Coming After You Baby!

by : peterprofitracingSeptember 7, 2021December 21, 2021

Miami based lawyer, businessman and passionate southern hemisphere harness racing enthusiast Gordon Banks and his cousin and business partner Marc Hanover have enjoyed an amazing run of success in big Australian and New Zealand races over recent months, capped off by Amazing Dream’s double Group 1 wins in the Rising Sun and Blacks a Fake, […]

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Ballad of a Bunch of Real Thin Men

by : peterprofitracingSeptember 6, 2021December 11, 2021

It is not very often that you see a seven-year-old pacer that hasn’t won or run a place in it’s past 26 starts over the last two and a half years turn up on the other side of the continent after a 10 week break, open up at $1.26 in the betting market, and them […]

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Being What You Are, There is No Other Troy, For You to Burn

by : peterprofitracingSeptember 3, 2021November 11, 2021

I have written about NSW trot trainer Troy Williams before. You can read those stories by clicking here. I have to admit, I don’t think that Troy is on the level. In fact, I reckon he is red hot. The two horses backed like there were no tomorrow in the picture above are his. It […]

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Australian Buyers Beware – New NZ Integrity Racing Board Take Heed – HRV Stipes Too – It’s All About Blood – Bloody Spun Blood

by : peterprofitracingSeptember 1, 2021November 14, 2021

The ACS referred to in this conversation by the two NZ trainers is Autologous-Conditioned Serum. That is the scientific word for spun blood of the kind used by the former All Stars Stable of Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon, and sold by the company that they directed named Equine Blood Solutions. It is taken from […]

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Snorter, Snake, Flying Amy and the Flea – Nothing Else Matters

by : peterprofitracingAugust 20, 2021December 10, 2021

Aaron Bain. The eyes have it. Never cared for what they say Never cared for games they play Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know And I know, yeah, yeah No, nothing else matters Metallica – Nothing Else Matters Sally Stingel is a fairly good trainer. After all, she did […]

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Was Always B Miki’s First Crop a Fluke? – Oh Well, at Least He Got a Few Legs Over – The Other Son of an Always a Virgin Ended Up Nailed to a Cross

by : peterprofitracingAugust 13, 2021October 3, 2021

Six months ago all anyone wanted to tell you was how brilliant Always B Miki was as a sire, and talking him up as the next Bettor’s Delight. It was a fair call at the time too, for Miki’s first season crop in the US had set the world on fire, and their success had […]

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You Can Tell a Man By the Company That He Keeps – But I Wouldn’t Call Them Men – Just Dogs

by : peterprofitracingAugust 7, 2021December 21, 2021

This was one of Ben Yole’s two winners at Hobart last night. Aaron Bain is the leading light of the South Australian harness racing scene, which shows how bad the industry is going. We’ve written heaps about him – read it here – and soon we will write more about the rort with the Gawler […]

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Chainsaw Gets Chopped Up – All of His Owners Hands Get Splashed With Blood – This is a Dead Horse’s Sole – It’s Their Soul Too

by : peterprofitracingAugust 7, 2021December 21, 2021

Ben Yole had 52 of the 84 starters in the eight races run at Hobart last night. He won just 2 of them. In one of them he trained 5 of the 9 runners, in the other he trained 9 of 11. Yole managed to lose two races in which he had 9 of the […]

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I Wonder if Troy Williams Knows River Phoenix?

by : peterprofitracingJuly 30, 2021November 11, 2021

There were 9 races on the card at the Penrith trots last night. Harness Racing NSW conducted pre-race blood tests in 8 of them. The average price of the pacers swabbed was over $20. Two of the horses tested started at $43.60 and $82.10. Now that’s real clever isn’t it? Troy Williams well backed winner […]

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The Magnificent Harness Racing NSW Swabbing Regime – With Einsten’s Like This in Charge of the Needle, Everyone Gets High

by : peterprofitracingJuly 27, 2021October 17, 2021

Race 1 Jimmy Locke ran 1.50.2 a fortnight ago. It was pre race swabbed before that race. It was tested again on Saturday night. It ran slower that Clive Palmer and tailed out 37.8 metres last. The other horse tested was a $31 shot. Jason Grimson’s won. To pre-race blood test for him. Race 2 […]