Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“Nick who?” you ask. The young trainer whose record over the past 12 months is 93 starters for 41 wins, 19 seconds and 9 thirds. That’s almost 100 runners for a strike rate of 44.1% the win and 74.2% the place. Walsh is doing even better this season. 42 starts – 21 wins and 11 […]
Something seems to be afoot in the Nick Walsh camp. His best galloper Hell was yesterday transferred into the care of the horse basher and doper trainer Tom Smith. Walsh’s recent winner Daimyo was too. Both horses have different connections so it’s unlikely to be due to an ownership dispute. More likely it has to […]
They were unable to determine how the product entered the horse’s system. However, Meloxicam could be administered orally. BESIDE ME might have been an unfortunate and vulnerable target. She was a first-starter in a maiden race, paying $1.50 on the tote, by a leading sire in DOWNBYTHESEASIDE and out of a $1.4 million stakes-winning mare […]
Is Michael Young, if you will excuse the terminology, “taking the piss” out of Harness Racing in WA? Our of administrators, stewards and his contemporaries and of course the public? Not my words but an oft repeated phrase amongst the fraternity, many of whom wonder how he is still licensed after his 3 year disqualification […]
In a round 1 win to Wayne Yole, the Tasmanian trainer and father of Ben has won a stay of the Tasracing imposition of conditions on his license that would prevent him from keeping horses at his infamous Sidmouth training property. We learned during the hearing of Yole’s stay application that, as we had previously […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC10062511.mp4 The main two things you need to know about this race are that Trainer Reece Moore had four in it It was a boatie for the one of Moore’s that they backed from $4.00 into $2.20 The plunge was landed Night Spirit was the plunge horse’s name. It sat out the back while its […]
I’ve been pondering the Pizzuto arsenic positive swab thing, and come to the conclusion that it’s very bloody strange. There have been thousands of horses compulsorily housed in the retention barn since it was constructed using what are now claimed to be arsenic treated boards, and not one of them has thrown a positive swab […]
Trotter Sheetweb Weaver has won just 4 races from 34 starts before joining the stable of trainer Bruce Birch, the last of them coming at Cobram in May 2023. He had gone winless from his past 2o runs, managing just three placings in among 17 unplaced finishes. Pre-Birch the fastest time he had ever run […]
We told you Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith was a koala and we were right. The penalty handed down to him on 30 April for a cobalt positive proves it. It’s not the 12 month suspension that is in issue, or the fact that it was suspended. The issue is the way in which the sentence […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/IJB18052505.mp4 Serious questions need to be asked about race 5 at Marburg on the 18th of May. Scrubby, drawn in gate 2, had not won a race since August 2023 and had been beaten by an aggregate margin of 247.1 meters at its previous five starts. This horse was backed from $81.00 into $18.00 with […]
