Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What is wrong with this picture? Everything. The Breeders Crown is the harness racing equivalent of the Golden Slipper and the Caulfield Guineas. Harness Racing NSW will disagree, but they are the ones restricting their premier age group races to pacers with a NSW connection, not HRV whose championship is open to all comers. Imagine […]
I can’t remember the last time that Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor went ten starts without a win as a trainer. It certainly hasn’t happened in his last 100 starters. Not until now anyway. Turbo’s phone got seized by the HRNSW Stewards on the 24th of October. He hasn’t trained a winner from his ten runners since. […]
… I also can’t remember the last time that Jason Grimson went 10 starts without a winner. He hasn’t missed the mark in his past 100 starts either. Until now. Weird hey? Remember that nursery rhyme they used to sing us when we were kids?
In the same race in which Deus Ex galloped – the $30 000 Group 3 Be Good Johnny Sprint – driver Chantal Turpin propelled her horse Will The Wizard off the gate and attacked the leader and favourite Turnitup mercilessly, forcing that horse’s driver Shane Graham to run a suicidal 26.6 second first quarter and […]
How does this make any logical sense at all? LL Cool J is drawn in gate 3 off the front row. Deus Ex is drawn 2 off the back row. The first time they score up LL Cool J gallops and interferes with the horse drawn behind it Colt Thirty One, and with Deus Ex […]
Terry French was just a no-name battling trainer with a poor strike rate until young trainer Alex Ashwood – the man with the highest strike rate of runners to winners in Victoria this season – started dating his daughter. In the four seasons between 2016/17 and 2019/20* French trained just 21 winners in total, at […]
Alex Ashwood at 34.8% has the best winning strike rate of any trainer in Victoria, better than Emma Stewart, better than David Aiken, better than Andy Gath, better than Anthony Butt and Sonia Smith, better than anyone at all. In fact Ashwood’s win rate is so impressive that he would damn near be a certainty […]
Line Up was very plain at Menangle. Some fair judges I know were talking this dual Derby winner up as an Inter Dominion chance only a week or two ago. I hope they didn’t back him pre-post in the all in market, for on the strength (or more correctly, weakness) of this run I reckon that if […]
James McPherson is one of the Turbo Trainor associates who had his phone seized at Menangle recently. He is not having a very good month. In fact when it comes to appearances in the Stewards room McPherson is not having a very good year at all. I won’t regale you with the finer details of […]
Sorry I forgot to mention that James McPherson also appealed against a 14 day suspension he received three days later at the Riverina. Once again he didn’t show up or lodge any material, but this time Mr Armati and Mr Ellis elected not to increase the penalty when dismissing his appeal. I would have. The […]
