Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you are doing the NZ Trotting Cup form for next Tuesday, it is worth seeing the short video clip below. It’s a slow, slow motion replay of the start. The horse you are looking at it South Coast Arden, one of the favourites for the Cup. It is drawn the outside on your far […]
South Australian harness racing has become a lawless land, a modern day version of the American wild west. It is getting out of control, and needs to be stamped down on hard. I don’t think the current Stewards have it in them. Slaps with wet bus tickets just don’t do the job. The problem is that […]
Monday 25 October – Globe Derby Race 2 This one involves a horse – the leader – who had been backed each way from $31 into $18 in a seven horse pay 1-2 the place race. Gina Bell is an experienced driver who has been around for ages now. She is driving the leader. The […]
Monday 25 October – Globe Derby Race 8 James Kettel – Super K – opens up the favourite but blows out the door. He ends up starting 3rd favourite. Shane Loone’s horse Lets Go Shorty – remember him, the one that was involved in the ring in? whatever happened to that inquiry? – opens at […]
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Race 1 Charming Major is the long odds on favourite. It is expected to lead easily, and win. Any of his rival would be a fool to take him on, for it would ruin their own chances of winning. Michael A. Smith, the reinsman with a preacher’s name, doesn’t […]
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Races 1, 4, and 9 The South Australians scored the hat trick on Saturday night. Three favourites beaten at 4-1 on ($1.25) or shorter, all on the same night. Crackerjack isn’t it? The first to go down was the Aaron Bain trained Kapiti Express, which only last start looked […]
While we are on the topic of the Parkes harness race meeting held last Friday, it would be remiss of us not to mention the madness in race three. I don’t know what experienced drivers Matt Rue and Mitch Turnbull thought they were doing in this race, or if there is some high degree of […]
Remember the story we told you earlier in the week about the dubious drive at Parkes by young Phoebe Betts? The one in which it appeared for all the world like she deliberately steered her horse wide in the straight to allow the horse pocketed on the leader’s back through? Well the Stewards have seen […]
See that land in the yellow box? Harness Racing Victoria owns it. The Melton Shire Council sold it to them for $3 million back in the early 2000’s, when Melton was still just a small semi-rural area and steadily developing low cost housing satellite suburb with 50 000 – 60 000 residents. At the time […]
A reader has made an excellent observation about the Cobalt Stacie case. If, as the alleged rumour goes, Stacie Elliott was indeed on holidays at the time her horses racked up two trifectas at Newcastle last month, why has no other licensed person been charged in relation to the two tested horses who threw positive […]
