Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the subject of Leap To Fame’s withdrawal from the New Zealand Cup. Do they know what they are talking about? Or are they bullshitting to cover something else up? Who takes bloods from a horse who’s blood was perfect and whose work was it’s best ever, and outwardly the trainer can’t fault it? Every […]
Watching how easily Swayzee won the Cherry City Cup at Young tonight you would never have realized how fast he was going on the tight 787m circuit. He smashed Max Delight’s track record by 2.6 seconds, and did it going to the line under a tight grip too. The win gives him 2 from 2 […]
Ultimate Geejay and Arklow are a pair of rating 36 and 37 horses, which is about as low as a horse can go, meaning that neither of them are much chop. Horses of their class can’t run fast early splits and keep going at the winning end, because they are just not good enough. So […]
Gee Grant Dixon’s second stringer Aroda was stiff not to get a starting spot in the NZ Trotting Cup. Some might say its karma coming back to bite owner and Albion Park Chairman Greg Mitchell for supporting his sex-offender CEO Scott Steele in court and returning him to his job, and that may well be […]
Dear Peter Profit I want to share with you my thoughts and those of some of my long time mates about the recent shocking publicity surrounding the management of Albion Park trots. The other day I opened the Courier Mail and there large as life was a big picture of the previously stood down CEO […]
You couldn’t have scripted this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup (which is really a pace) any better if you’d tried. The will he or won’t he drama with Leap To Fame, the last minute entry of Swayzee onto the scene, the NZ North Island Horse of the Year Merlin v the Australian Horse of the […]
Belle from Burnie has written in with her take on this year’s $450 000 WA Pacing Cup. As always its an intelligent assessment, and a very interesting read. PT = PINNY TIGER JJM – JUMPINGJACKMAC MS – MISTER SMARTEE JNR – GARY HALL JR, DRIVER OF MISTER SMARTEE TB – TENZING BROMAC CR – CAPTAIN […]
The Western Australian stewards decision to allow Chris Voak to drive the Michael Brennan trained Pinny Tiger in tomorrow night’s $450 000 WA Cup instead of driving the horse he trains himself in the race Sangue Reale flied in the face of the spirit and intent of the rules, and quite frankly defies belief. The […]
On 11 October 2024, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) handed down its decision in relation to an application lodged by licensed trainer-driver John Nicholson seeking review of the penalties imposed by the Victorian Racing Tribunal (VRT) on 6 September 2023. Background On 6 September 2023, Mr Nicholson pleaded guilty to four charges Australian […]
John ‘Bulldog’ Nicholson is a long-time and well-known harness racing trainer/driver. Well, not presently, because earlier this month he was put out for 12 months by the Victorian Racing Tribunal for punting in races that he was competing in. He actually got outed for 2 years, but the VRT reduced it to just the 1 […]
