Take That You Blues Supporters – Queenslander! Queenslander!
It must be a terrible feeling to have 9 out of the 10 starters in a NSW Breeders Challenge Final and lose it to a Queenslander. A sinking, sick sensation in your stomach indeed. Hello Sydney, remember me? Kevin Seymour AM. From Queensland. My name’s Kevin, and I’m here to help. Relieve you of your […]
Did P. Betts Pull the Right Rein?
Now driver Phoebe Betts is only eighteen and still learning her craft at the professional level, so I am loathe to be critical of one of her drives. But she has had 607 of them now, and this one is so highly questionable that it cannot really be allowed to pass without comment. We are […]
Menangle Phone Seizures – The Plot Thickens Even Further
We were wrong yesterday when we wrote that the phones of Jack Trainor, Jack Brown and James McPherson were seized after the last race. They were in fact seized before the first. HRNSW Stewards told the licensees – including the 17-year-old Brown (we said yesterday he was 16; we are advised that he recently had […]
What Goes Up Must Come Down – Which is Cool as Long as it Doesn’t Go Over the Top
So trainer Graham Dwyer – who we told you a few days back was throwing high but just under threshold TCO2 reads as quick as Grant Dixon lately – turns out two runners at Redcliffe last night. One is Harps, which is a lovely name. Turbo Trainor had it until a month ago. He got […]
Gaita Grows Four Arms and Two Bodies
If the South Australian harness racing authorities can’t get the fields and drivers right, then they should not publish them, for all it does is mislead the public and make them look stupid. Gaita Pullicino is a wonderful driver, but for obvious reasons she cannot possibly drive three horses in a single race. She can’t […]
Further on the Menangle Phone Seizures
There has been further news out of Menangle about the phone seizures by Stewards on Saturday night, and it is not good. It seems that the two licensees other than Jack Trainor whose phones were taken under the extraordinary powers invoked by the Stewards were James McPherson and Jack Brown, and that they were compulsorily […]
I Wonder if Turbo is Still a Happy Jack Without His Telephone?
The mail coming out of Menangle is that uber-successful young trainer and personality around western Sydney town Jack Trainor is sans telephone at the moment, and so are two of his stable staff, one of whom is believed to be the talented young horseman James McPherson. It seems that the Stewards for some reason or […]
How Does Brian Portelli Do It?
Over the past couple of years Brian Portelli has emerged from relative obscurity to become one of NSW leading trainers, and now boasts a stable full of young stars headed by Smaltese and Tasty Delight, who although only two and three respectively have won almost $400 000 between them, with the promise of many more […]
The Group 1 Winner Who Just Can’t Go
Enhance Your Calm is a square gaiter that two years ago won the Harness Jewels when in the All Stars barn. He has won two Group 1’s (and run 2nd in another), a Group 2 and a Group 3. Less than 3 months ago he beat NZ’s two best trotters Sundees Son and Majestic Man […]