Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Seaton Grima has been a bit quiet lately, but yesterday at Menangle he roared back to life, First there was Shoreline Dream, which had only been able to win one mangy race in slow time for Emma Stewart and Peter Bain at its past seven starts before it came to him, none in faster than […]
Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson had three runners in yesterday, 2 at Menangle and 1 at Albion Park. They all won. https://www.harness.org.au/racing/trainers/jason-grimson/ He has two in at the Creek on Saturday night, Tokyo Rose and Maxo Mighty. The chances are that they will too. Most of Jill’s do. And the Winter Carnival hasn’t yet really begun. The […]
My namesake debuts in race 2 at Rockhampton today. It will be a good bit of free advertising for the website if it lives up to its trial form. The racehorse Peter Profit shares the same name as the great QLD pacer of the 1970’s after whom this website is named and, ironically, his great […]
Bobo Bodine, the greatest trainer we’ve ever seen, and his ever loving spouse Lacey Morrison got sprung watching something on his phone in the jockeys lounge after race 4 at Townsville on Tuesday. When the Stewards said “Oi!”, Bodine blew up. They told him to hand over the phone, he gave two to the Valley. […]
Is Ciaron Maher the luckiest trainer in NSW? Or the most favoured? Many this week are asking the question after Maher was granted an exclusive lease from Racing NSW on the 125 box former Grand Lodge stables at Warwick Farm following its $20 million purchase by the racing regulator. This latest stroke of good fortunes […]
Sydney’s leading trot trainer Jason Grimson has a very busy long and highly unusual couple of days ahead of him. First today he makes the 11 hour drive from Menangle or 2 hour plane flight from Mascor (cost circa $500) to Mildura our near the South Australian border to take just one drive tonight, that […]
QRIC have today (Thursday) conducted mass scale unannounced visits to trainers and racing participants at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and issued directions to a number of people to hand over their phones. It is believed that the following participants complied with the direction, and that their phones are now in the possession of the […]
Tommy Berry must be ruing his comments in an interview with Sky after Hovland’s at Warwick Farm ago. Berry told the interviewer that he “had the opinion of being a lot more positive this morning when I (he) spoke to Tom and John, and full credit to them, they didn’t want me to be that […]
It took a little detective work and a bit of reading between the lines, but the mystery of a harness trainer’s 2 x 6 month disqualifications has been solved. Because the QRIC elected not to publish the person’s name we shall not either, even though we know who it is, and shall refer to them […]
We have written repeatedly and at length about the injustice handed down to Paul Tonkin, a good honest man who had served his community and its people faithfully for all his life, and then got publicly shamed and disgraced by the NSW harness racing authorities for an unintentional breach of the rules caused by cross […]
