Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
WA trot trainer Michael Young has recorded a winning strike rate of 19% for the past two seasons. Then Santa came and left the gift of magic under Young’s Xmas tree. Now he is training winners at 41%. Young has won 15 races from his past 25 starters. That’s Jason ‘the GOAT’ Grimson like. I […]
In a previous life I was a union official successfully negotiating national collective agreements for TV and radio stations, major councils, sporting bodies and national government departments. The one common thread to all was unity: unity of people and unity of purpose. Unity of people as in all rowing the same boat in the same […]
Betterzippit was a good horse but by no means a great one when he was in New Zealand. He won 5 races from 28 starts, three of them at the B-grade Cambridge circuit, one at the C-grade Manawatu course, and only one – a rating 49 to 58 affair – at the metro Alexandra Park […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM25012501.mp4 When Hot And Treacherous won 1st-up for new trainer John Livingstone in late November, we all thought for a fleeting moment that the former Kiwi pacer had reversed the long running trend of horses being ruined as racing propositions when they leave Jason Grimson’s care (if you call it that). Sadly were wrong. Hot […]
Do you remember that Kiwi clown called Mark Jones? It’s okay if you don’t, because he’s not very memorable. Jones is the South Island trainer who threatened to sue us a year or back after we wrote a story featuring him that the poor precious dear didn’t like. He even went so far as to […]
A readers thoughts on Racing NSW’s plan to set up a Newmarket style training centre Australian trainers don’t know how to train on a genuine Newmarket style facility. Our equivalent is the stables precincts that are adjacent to racecourses. And what starts as trainers properties are often then sold out of the industry….. Hence Racing […]
Riverina based trot trainer Phillip Martin has been disqualified for 9 years after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the powerful anaesthetic 3-hydroxybupivacaine after a recent win at Albury. Mr Martin is obviously a slow learner. It was his sixth positive swab. If brains were dollars some people would be bankrupt. Phillip Martin would […]
It was interesting to hear the caller at Redcliffe last night comment how unusual it is to see a 10-year-old mare like Lara Bay still racing at her age, when most of her generation of the fillies have long retired to the breeding barn. Why would you retire a healthy mare like Lara Bay, who […]
The NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel (HRAP) has cut Tamworth trainer Dean Chapple’s disqualification for a positive swab to Meloxicam from 24 months down to 18, but not before telling the repeat drugs in racing offender that he was full of crap and sending him on his way with a spray. Chapple’s tale that the […]
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
