Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
South Australian harness racing trainer Lane Johnson’s property was the target of a fire-bombing attack last night that the family believes was deliberate and perpetrated by someone or ones connected to the harness racing industry. Petrol bombs were launched at the Johnson’s property in the attack, with Johnson’s partner Pay Hayter posting on social media […]
Harness Racing New Zealand has generously given two of the wealthiest stables in Aotearoa a Xmas gift. A free race replete with $15 000 as first prize they have given one of either Mark Purdon or Robert Dunn, and a silver pass to finish second and take home $6000 is the present for the other. […]
Calculating Dancer had only been back in the Pullicino stable for a few weeks, after spending the last two years up in Newcastle under the care of the Bourkes. Gaita drove it as dead as Elvis first-up last week from the extreme outside draw, and when it started to steam home in the straight drove […]
Looking back at the Ted Caruana case with the benefit of hindsight, a few things that were clouded before become clear. One is that Caruana sent young driver Taylor Ford, who he was having a feud with, a picture of Jason Grimson and his now imprisoned accused of major drug trafficking mate Justin ‘Tatts’ Downey […]
The Menangle crew of alleged cross-state drug traffickers all appeared in the Campbelltown Local Court last Wednesday. Tatts – whose real name is Justin Ashley Downey – appeared by video link for a mention of his extremely serious drug charges and of an application made by a police officer for an order to protect his […]
1 – LEAP TO FAME 76: 59-12-3 13 x G1 + The Race BT 1.48.3 The Ali of the pacing world. Simply the best. There is not much more I need to say. Larry says it all for me. 2 – DON HUGO 57: 22-11-8 3 x G1 + The Eureka BT 1.48.4 Wins in […]
The breakdown of the sectional times from Saturday night’s Race of the Century in Blacks A Fake tells us a number of salutary tales. The first one is how truly brilliant Leap To Fame is. Larry was forced to cover 32m more ground than the winner Don Hugo and 15m more than the third-placed […]
News has filtered back to us that breeders of the Eureka runners are yet to be paid their breeder bonus of $10 000 each, or the breeder of the winner their bonus of $30 000. The Eureka was run almost 3 months ago to the day, and HRNSW are not short of cash to pay […]
There is outrage among NZ harness racing licensees over the treatment of junior driver Emily Johnson, who had been threatened with a dangerous driving charge by Stewards in relation to an incident that occurred during a race at Addington last Friday week. Johnson was driving the long odds-on favorite He Ain’t Fakin, the Aussie pacer […]
In Albion Park Chairman Greg Mitchell’s euphoria about the Creek being (in our view temporarily) saved, he seems to have 0verlooked a rather important thing. The racing reform plan to run thoroughbred race meeting four nights a week, every week, in direct competition with the trots. Wednesday to Saturday night is the plan. Gold Coast, […]
