Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Emma Stewart turned out 39 runners in the semis of the Breeders Crown last night at Melton. 34 of them qualified for the rich grand finals. Stewart won 9 of the semi-finals, ran the quinella in 7 of them, the trifecta in 3, and the first four in 1 more. All up her stable took […]
On the same night that G. Hall Jr gave us a demonstration in the Eureka of how not to drive a horse in a big race, Kate Gath put on a master class that showed exactly how to do it right. Gath’s steer on Catch A Wave in the Len Smile was simply superb, a […]
Mister had been with trainer Garry Bignell for about a month coming into race 5 at Birdsville yesterday. It had been beaten more than ten lengths in both starts that it has had for him. The most recent drubbing was 6 days ago at Betoota over the 1200m, the same distance as yesterday’s race. Birdsville […]
Trot trainer John Livingstone was a well known face and fixture at harness race meetings around South-East Queensland and the Tweed for the better part of four decades, until his grief-driven retirement from the game about a dozen years ago in the wake of the tragic, far too early passing of his beloved wife and […]
At its previous start prior to last night the Seaton Grima trained and driven Go Oh Mickey had been sent out a $1.70 favorite in a weak NR55 mares race at Newcastle, which seemed a bit over the odds considering that it had beaten a similar class field the start before at the same track […]
Congratulations to Victorian trainer Aftab Shaikh, who after40 months and 52 starts of trying finally cracked it for his first career win yesterday when Kilmister took out third race at Warracknabeal. I don’t know much about Shaikh, other than that he had his first runner as a stand alone trainer on the 3rd of May 2o21 […]
Footnote The foray over the sticks didn’t do much to sharpen Cuban Dawn up. It ran at Bendigo yesterday and finished 10th, beaten 8.51 lengths.
As you can see Tasracing has given gallops trainer Tanya Hanson warm plaudits and a fond farewell upon her retirement from the racing industry, with the principal racing authority’s tribute to her published on its website. That says everything you need to know about the regulators of the sport in the Apple Isle, and their […]
On Friday night WA trot trainer Kim Prentice joined Gary Hall and Greg Bond in the ranks of slippery customers pulling stooges on the Stewards to manipulate fields in order to get their horses a start. Prentice had two horses in the 3yo fillies race worth $21 000, but when the nominations closed at the […]
Emma Stewart made it 6 wins in a row and 8 from her past 10 by racking up a treble at Melton last night. Remarkably two of her winners were first-up for a year from injury enforced breaks, and the other was a 4-year-old mare on debut. None had officially trialed. The trio were the […]
