Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is no better example of the vagaries of the National Ratings system employed in harness racing and its inherent unfairness than the first race yesterday at Menangle. It was trotters race for square gaiters rated up to NR 55, and the field it threw up was a dog’s breakfast. At one end of the […]
South Australian reinsman ‘Super’ Mario Borg has had a wretched luck in the cart this year, with the horses that he has driven seemingly being checked or galloping or managing to find some other misfortune every time that Super’s gone around. It’s that terrible run of luck that saw him line up behind the mobile […]
Morning Archie Something is definitely suspect about some race times being recorded at Albion Park. Last night Taylad To Use led all of the way to win the 2025 Somerset Farms Darrell Alexander Trotting Championship Final. Nothing at all wrong with the win and training performance of Grant Dixon – thoroughly deserved the win and […]
The Waipa (gallops) Racing Club is in the Waikato. So is Te Awamutu. Funny things happen south of the Bombay hills. Racing Club Manager stole $160,000 12 December 2011 Lea Margaret Temm, the 55 year-old Manager of the Waipa Racing Club was today sentenced for stealing $162,172.38 from her employer over a period of ten […]
Leap To Fame holds five of the seven tracks records at Albion Park for pacers, a never before and never will be again achieved feat that on its own stamps him immortal status. One of the records Larry doesn’t own is Yulestar’s 1.56.2 set in the 2001 Inter Dominion Final for 2647m from the mobile, […]
I want to have a closer look at this CHEERSTOLOU horse, because what it has done since it joined the Donny Smith stable is absolutely insane. Im Themightyquinn’s track record at Albion Park of 1.50.4 set in 2014 stood for eight years. Cruz tied it when Craig Cross was the straw man boss at McCarthy’s […]
Some really odd things are going on in Queensland at the moment. Well tried older horses are running times that just don’t make sense. Cheerstolou is one of them. When it arrived at Donny Smith’s stables about a month or two ago it had raced 78 times for 8 wins against weak company, and never […]
Grant Dixon has been getting away with murder at Albion Park lately. Last night he slaughtered an odds on fave right in front of the eyes of the Stewards, and killed a million multis. And got away with that too. Dixon’s drive on Call To Order didn’t even earn a mention in the Stewards Report. […]
What is doping? It is the “illegal application of any substance, except normal diet, that might modify the natural and present capacities of the horse at the time of the race.” What is Levamisole? A totally prohibited substance under the rules of racing that is not normal diet, and might modify the natural and present […]
This photo was taken a decade ago by Luke Pizzilli, the alleged supplier of a large commercial quantity of drugs and member of Jason Grimson’s lifelong friend Tatts Menangle Crew who was arrested in Western Sydney today when he reported in to the Auburn police station as required by his bail conditions on other matters. […]
