Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A once familiar but today little heard name bobbed up in the third race at Doomben yesterday. I refer to John Zielke, the one time ‘bodyguard to the stars’ turned trainer who about a decade ago enjoyed huge success through his partnership with prominent owner Evan Hartley, particularly with two-year-old gallopers, leading to him being […]
Note to self Turbo – never let yourself get photographed in front of what looks like a prison wall Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor was yesterday disqualified for a further 18 months for his second positive swab to Levamisole offence. Turbo is currently serving a 10-month DQ for his first Levamisole positive. That term expires on 9 […]
Which of these 5 panel members voted for this? Do you remember the acts of abhorrent animal cruelty committed on an innocent horse by Central QLD trainer Tom Smith that we told you about 7 months ago (see story reprinted below)? Well dealing swiftly with offences against animal welfare clearly isn’t the QRIC’s thing, for […]
How’s that for a plunge? $15.00 into $1.90 Jilliby Fabio in the last at Menangle yesterday. The eagle landed. Guess who the trainer was? Chris Judd, the fella we’ve been telling you about lately. The bloke is a genius. He gets once fast horses like Jilliby Fabio and makes them fast again. https://www.harness.org.au/racing/horse-search/?horseId=823436 It was […]
The indicator that a person is very good harness racing trainer is in the times horses run for them, and whether or not they can improve those times on what the previous trainer could get it the horse to run. Pacers run remarkably consistent times all through their careers by the age of four onward. […]
A young trainer on the rise who is having a real hot streak is Chris Judd. In just his third year of fair dinkum full-time training and his sixth in all, Judd is training winners in 2025 at a strike rate of 33%, Emma Stewart like numbers. 24 starters he’s had, for 8 winners. They’ve […]
Hi NAME REDACTED, There have been further developments provided by Racing NSW today. Peter V’landys has neither refused or accepted my application but instead sought independent assessment of my metropolitan license upgrade application – what I can only imagine is a first. Given that Dad has withdrawn his appeal, there is no extension provided to […]
New Zealand-born and Sydney-based trainer Bjorn Baker’s celebrations have gone viral but there is a method behind the madness, writes Adam Pengilly. IF YOU HAVEN’T already seen the videos, then you likely will soon. Bjorn Baker is in posh committee rooms, in public grandstands, in run-of-the-mill bars in pubs, even roaring loudly from the back […]
I have been following harness racing obsessively for half a century, and in all that time I have never seen a trainer so dominant as Emma Stewart is right now. What she is achieving with her stable is so extraordinary that it would almost defy belief if only you hadn’t seen it with your own […]
The whispers that there is some funny business going on with certain drivers at Albion Park have reached a crescendo in the past couple of weeks since former rails bookie at the gallops turned professional punter/layer on Betfair Lindsay Gallagher was banned by Stewards from entering the birdcage and stabling area at the track during […]
