Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The 2YO Colts and Geldings NSW Breeders Challenge semi-final fields are starting to taking shape, and so far all the best horses have won their heats. The Queenslander Leap For Fame is out. Had he finished 3rd in his heat yesterday at Menangle behind Smaltese he might have made it on a countback due to […]
Queensland harness racing trainer Wayne ‘the Ningi Butcher’ Waltisbuhl is a man who believes in hope. The Ningi Butcher believes in the power of sons of Somebeachsomewhere as sires too. Who can knock him on either count? Somebeachwhere is the greatest or (if you are a Bettors Delight man) the second greatest pacing sire of […]
I have been raving about Kevin Seymour AM’s 2-year-old colt Leap To Fame for about six months now, and talking up his chances against the big guns of the south. Well today the moment has come. In race 6 at Menangle today, the second colts and geldings heat of the Breeders Challenge, Leap To Fame […]
Dani Hill had just kicked up in the death inside David Smith’s horse, and looked like going to the lead. Smith eased. When he did, Hill did too. David Smith couldn’t get in, so when Hill eased he came around again. Hill kicked up once more and held him out. D. Smith was not happy […]
In the year 2010 Harness Racing Victoria paid $33.7 million in prizemoney to participants. By 2020 the total stakes had increased to $41.6 million. You little ripper. An additional $7.9 million has been injected into harness racing. Well yes, but no, and not quite. Nine million more is being paid out in prizemoney compared to […]
Gilbert Myles was a Robert Muldoon loving rank and file member of the NZ National Party (their equivalent of the LNP or the Liberal Party) who in 1990 stood as a stooge in the seemingly unwinnable seat of Roskill in Auckland – which had been held by Labour since 1957, and was considered the safest […]
What is wrong with this picture? The simple answer? Everything. Harness Racing Victoria is failing on every key indicator and metric that matters to the industry and to those in it, except prizemoney. We will come to that later. The number of meetings has dropped by over ten percent in ten years, and there […]
It was truly wonderful to see Bailey McDonough and his Dad with whom he has recently physically reconnected after years living on other sides of the continent win their way through to the final of the Victorian Derby in the heats on Saturday night with Blitzern. Bailey’s was a heady, patient, mature and all round […]
Wasn’t it nice of Captain Crunch to sponsor the NZ Harness Racing Awards this year? I am not quite sure how he actually did it, given that the Captain is a horse and thus can’t read, write, operate a bank account or hold any assets, but it was lovely of the shuttle sire to think […]
Is Victorian harness racing really that poor that it needs to sacrifice 107 years of history and name it’s premiere blue riband classic after an American horse that not only never won the race, but has never even raced in the country? Really? The Lather Up Victorian Derby. It fills me with disgust even writing […]
