Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The more I think about the win of Got The Chocolates in the $500 000 The Velocity at Addington yesterday, the more I realize that we may have witnessed greatness. Twice. We saw it in Marketplace too. Got The Chocolate got them, and he gets all the accolades too for he did it the hard […]
You would feel a wee bit gutted at the moment if you were the owners of Nazareth I reckon. They set their horse for a $30 000 race in Show week and turn up to the track to watch it race. Another horse checks Nazareth in the score-up he breaks into a hopeless gallop. There […]
Got The Chocolates has come back from his winter spell a bigger and much tougher horse, and has won 3 of his 4 runs and was huge when second to Rubira in the other. He has beaten Marketplace both times they have met this prep. The first time in the Group 1 Flying Stakes Marketplace […]
We have a magnificent day of harness racing ahead at Addington, with four Group 1’s on the card plus two half-million dollar slot races for three-year-old’s the Velocity and the Ascent. This is probably the best all round program of racing all year. Sit back, strap in and enjoy the ride. RACE 3 – IRT […]
Tasmanian thoroughbred and harness racing may not seem to care a great deal about the impending shut down of greyhound racing in the State, but neither code seems to realize what is about to hit them when the dogs are gone. You see greyhound racing accounts for 39.5% of wagering turnover on Tasmanian races, yet […]
The good news for harness racing is that N40 owner Josh Davine has resolved the issues that led to him making the decision to severely downsize his racing interests, and will be staying in the game. Nutrien’s online N40 Reduction Sale will go ahead as planned, but those anticipating a cheap fire sale will be […]
Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen decided to take his old mate Gus on a trip to New Zealand. It was a working trip. Gus was there to run in the Dominion Handicap, and Pete was there to pull off a plunge. It seemed a pretty ambitious plan. Gus had won a Group 2 and a Group 3 […]
See this Ewan Sexton chap in the picture? The new Manager of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Harness Racing NSW? Nothing against the bloke, who I am sure is a very nice chap, but who is he and where did his job come from? We have searched up, down and sideways and cannot find any […]
Victorian trainer Paul Tonkin had the misfortune of one of his horses throwing a positive swab in NSW to the powerful painkiller Tapentadol. Tonkin – who is no relation to Clayon or Peter Tonkin: same name, different family – pleaded guilty to the charge, was a first time offender, and the positive was accepted to […]
Bulls**t. You have no idea what you are talking about, the SBSW sons and SL are the most prominent sires in the US but it’s not because a “saturation” of Art Major and BD mares because there isn’t a saturation of those mares in the US, most of the BDs are in Canada where he […]
