Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We regularly bang on about the poor standard of harness race stewarding in Queensland, and usually with good reason. The Stewards Report about race 9 at Redcliffe last night is the perfect illustration. Rally Around was sent out at as the $2.90 favorite in the race. Its driver is in the Leap To Fame colors. […]
I used to thing trainer Mick Stanley was one of the good guys, but after the win of his 3-year-old Sao Paolo Simba at Menangle today I am no longer sure. Sao Paolo Simba had raced 11 times coming into today’s race and won 4 and placed 3. He had raced at Menangle 5 times […]
Gaita Pullicino got a bit keen on the horse outside of the leader here didn’t she? I lost track of how many times she broke the whip rule from the home turn on. It was like watching one of those old races at the Showgrounds. Me thinks Aunty Gaita is going for a spell. The […]
Getting a long odds-on favorite beaten at Albion Park is easy. You don’t have to dope it, or tinker with the gear, or even pull it up. All you have to do is park it in the death. Outside of the leader without any cover. That will do it almost every time. Darrin went out […]
After the result on Saturday night Harness Racing NSW might want to perhaps consider renaming The Eureka, and call it The Emma instead. It would be a fitting title for the race that Stewart has dominated in the three years it has been held. She won the first running of the Eureka with Encipher, and […]
Colin McDowell celebrates his Breeders Blue win with a feed Have you ever heard of the standardbred sire Lord Zin Zan? No? Me either. That’s because in five years at stud he has only ever served 12 mares who have produced just nine live foals. His runner to winner record is alright though, for four […]
The Queensland crew descended on Menangle last night with high hopes of winning one of the big ones. Grant Dixon had three in The Eureka; Fate Awaits, Path To Greatness and Call To Order. Pete McMullen had Attachment in the Stockade and The Janitor in the Len Smith Mile; and Shannon Price brought Sure Thing […]
Luck’s a fortune in the yearling buying game, as last nights Eureka result proved. There were 11 yearlings sold for $105 000 or more at the 2022 yearling sales. Eureka winner Bay Of Biscay was one of them, topping the Sydney sale at a price of $150 000. That investment has now multiplied many times, […]
Mr and Mrs Tatts on their wedding day. Wonder how they paid for the swish spread? Tonight’s The Eureka was supposed to be the race that put harness racing back in the headlines. The trots have been in the headlines this week, but it had nothing to do with The Eureka. First the NSW Racing […]
Archie, Archie, Archie Love your work but I can’t believe a man of your undoubted wisdom would use the Eureka field to indicate anything other than, as you rightly point out, the concept has been a total failure to promote local stallions. Despite all the hype from HRA’s mouthpiece Adam Ant & co the Eureka […]
