Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s a big night at Alexandra Park this Friday, with five Group 1 races on the program, three for the pacers and two for the trotters, and each of them are going to be very interesting affairs for a variety of reasons. Let’s preview the Group 1 races and see if we can find you […]
I was saddened to learn yesterday of the passing of Peter Donohoe, the trainer-driver who for decades was a fixture of harness racing at both the old right-hand Albion Park, and then later at the present left-hand one. I never met Peter, but as a trot fan felt I knew him well, even though I […]
Hi mate About the standing starts at Globe Derby. The best part or all is that the people they use for standing starts are not “track attendants”. They are harness racing participants that club officials asks to help while walking around the stalls, e.g. trainers or drivers. Ella Brechin is one trainer they commonly get […]
Here Mick Guerin’s story is on the HRNZ website …. The NZ Herald story below penned by Mick Guerin – which bears marked similarities to our own story published on this website the day before – appeared for a brief moment in time yesterday on the Harness Racing New Zealand website. But only until those […]
We know that Harness Racing SA can’t get their constituent principal club Globe Derby to effect standing starts correctly in a 21st century manner. Just as we know their Stewards are spineless jellyfish who can’t or won’t crack down hard to stop drivers from playing a dangerous game of rollerball on the track. Or stop […]
The standing start in the picture at the top is race 1 at Port Pirie on Wednesday. Port Pirie is a country track. Note that the starter is standing high on the top of the rostrum where he has a clear view of all the horses at the start. And that there is no human […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC04052604.mp4 This is race 7 at Globe Derby on Monday afternoon. Fast forward the replay to about the 400m mark and watch the 4 horse in the orange Mischievous Maggie driven by Wayne Hill who is trying to get off the fence, and the 9 Amys Baby Angel in the blue red and white coming […]
Hi mate, Hope you are well. Sunday at Forbes, Race 7, Nathan Turnbull stablemates try to team drive to the point of desperation. Seven Tee Two comes to the death to pressure the leader, Always Adorned who had upset the plan of Sunset Jay Jay of leading. Turning for home, leader still going well, Seven […]
There is a paucity of open class pacers in New Zealand, and has been for some time. Entain has poured a poultice of money and intelligent ideas into harness racing in recent years and this is changing, but such things take some time. It will be different next year, but for the moment the shortage […]
Archie After my email to you last week whereby a made myself a promise not to bet on SA harness because of the debacle concerning the trotters cup over there, last night I thought I would tune in to see if there had been any improvement since you published your story. Well the answer is […]
