Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mr Profit Peter Bain has more integrity in the tip of his little finger than 98% of the harness racing fraternity in South Australia, to ascertain otherwise is farcical. Your suggestions to state otherwise are what is wrong with journalism in the present time, it is peak laziness! Please sir, I applaud you to do […]
To the best of our knowledge the author Nick Butterworth is no relation to Copy That’s owner Merv Hi mate Can’t agree re Grant Dixon drive He didn’t go inside a marker He touched it no more than you would the old style wooden hub rail I haven’t looked but I would be fairly sure […]
We have been writing a lot lately about the massive improvements in times being run by pacers around Australia in recent months, and yesterday at Globe Derby we saw yet another in the shape of Mikis Beauty, a winner of just 2 races from 39 starts in New Zealand before coming over the ditch to […]
Watch the horse behind the leader go straight over a marker peg and flatten it as it goes to the inside early when the runners turn for home. That is an offence against the rules, and the horse got the run up (and over) the rail well before it should have as a result. The […]
There are some remarkable things about harness racing’s premiership tables around the country this year. Despite training strictly out of Victoria and not having any satellite stables, Emma Stewart still manages to sit in the top ten in four different States – Victoria (1), NSW (4), Tasmania (9) and South Australia (9). Two licensees who […]
After a turbulent year for Victorian harness racing, equilibrium was restored at Melton last night. Well sort of anyway. There were four finals of the Breeders Crown for 2 and 3-year-old pacers, one for each age group and gender. Emma Stewart won them all. Danny Zavitsanos own 2 of them (plus another winner) and Bain/Summit […]
Deni did the double. Minstrel won the Cup. What a mighty horse he is, as tough as teak like Pure Steel. And what a wonderful achievement by Deni Roberts to become the first woman ever to drive two WA Pacing Cup winners. It was a night for celebration all round. https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM12122504.mp4
What the hell was Andre Poutama doing in the trot last night at Alexandra Park behind Oscar Bonavena? Oscar was the highest rated horse in the race by a mile at NR120. The leader was a rating 55 trotter. Common sense dictated that Poutama would bring Oscar around the field early and bore it up the […]
It had been 18 starts since Tizzy Lizzie’s last win in March when she stepped out at Wagga yesterday. At her previous two starts the well tried winner of 8 races from 73 starts had sat in the death over the same track and 1780m distance and been beaten. Tizzy Lizzie’s personal times in those […]
Smoken Ace had won 8 races coming into the NR 76-89 at Geelong on Friday night, the most recent of them 13 starts back in March in an NR 70-79 race at Melton. The fastest winning time it had run in any of them was 1.55.9, also at Melton, in August last year. Last night […]
