Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The race before the Nullarbor on Friday night is just as interesting as the main event is, and has the potential to be as exciting too. Race 9 the DOWNLOAD THE APP 3YO CADECEUS CLUB CLASSIC PRELUDE NO.3 features the two best 3-year-old pacers in WA, but in this writer’s considered view two of the […]
The Nullarbor field is out, and the betting market has been turned upside down by the draw. Swayzee, who was $1.70 on Ladbrokes this morning before gate numbers were pulled from the barrel, has blown out the door to $3.00 after drawing the inside of the second row on the tight half mile Gloucester Park […]
Archie, Concerning the absurd scheduling of the race at 9.36 pm WST or 11.36 pm EST. What a bizarre decision. (Gloucester Park CEO) Michael Radley has been rabbiting on for ages about the necessity to leverage Eastern States turnover on Harness with early starts. In some instances, 4.00 o’clock starts during daylight savings in the […]
Barry Purdon is generally regarded as the best trot trainer in history. He has won more premierships than most people have had hot dinners, and won every race worth winning. What Purdon doesn’t know used to be not worth knowing. Not anymore. As good as he is, the Hall of Famer couldn’t get Its Electrifying […]
The disturbing news out of Auckland is that a convicted sex offender – who due to court issued suppression orders we shall refer to only as Offender X – is working for, and on the registered South Auckland training premises of, the largest harness racing operation in New Zealand. 10 Months Home Detention For Convicted […]
We wrote earlier about Cran Dalgety’s star filly Beside Me returning a positive swab to Meloxicam after winning a race at Wyndham earlier in the year. Well it appears as usual that we were right, for although there is no published record of either Dalgety having been charged with an offence by Stewards, or of […]
28-year-old Queensland trainer Matt Elkins is in a fine vein of form this season, hitting winners at a strike rate of 19%, almost fifty percent higher than his career rate of 13%. One of the reason Elkins is winning all these races is his ability to get old horses running faster than they have in […]
The return to form yesterday at Marburg of veteran pacer Courageous Leo, who at 50-1 greeted the judge for the first time since he won a heat of the Nanango Show twelve months ago ago (he ran 2nd in the final), reminded us of an excellent article that gun trot writer Duane Ranger penned a […]
The old adage about always backing the rank outsider in small fields proved true again last night at Launceston when the $31.00 roughie A Dragon For Joe came from three back the fence on debut to win the feature 2yo race the KEITH STANLEY DEBUTANTE, defeating his three much better fancied rivals that started at […]
I don’t know if NSW hobby trainer Jacqui Ingham would have been doing cartwheels or taking commiserations last night at Parkes. You wait two seasons for a winner – just your ninth in a decade of holding a license – and when it comes you only get half. Ingham’s stable star – her only horse […]
