Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Rex Horne is a former Chairman of both the NSW Harness Racing Club (was Harold Park, now Menangle) and Harness Racing NSW, and the recipient of Australian Harness Racing’s highest award, the Ern Manea medal. The grandstand at Menangle is named in his honour. Leon Jurd is one of his close friends. The pair share […]
Graham Rogerson has had a spate of bad luck with his gallopers recently, the most notable disappointment being the scratching of his NZ Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart from his engagements in Melbourne during the Spring, but he’s certainly making up for the bad run by having a great one at the trots, […]
Top flight heavyweight Brisbane jockey Brad Stewart was forced to retire from the saddle earlier this year due to serious injuries that he had suffered in a freak accident in the tie up stalls, when a horse went crazy and somersaulted on top of him, breaking Stewart’s pelvis in 4 places. It was a terrible […]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast they say, and it seems to have here. Why on earth would the Sears camp want to even contemplate pushing on to the Golden Rose with their stable star Yellow Brick after his inglorious performance in the Silver Eagle, when he got eased up and tailed out in […]
What a strange thing for Grant Dixon to say. In his 32 start career he hasn’t taught Leap To Fame the art of showing early gate speed. Why not? Surely a great trainer like Dixon would have taught his horse to explode from the gate, for it doesn’t make sense not to have done so. […]
With about 12 weeks left to go in the season the Premierships Cameron Hart is a put in take out job to win both the NSW state and metr0 drivers titles with leads of 46 and 25 in each respectively. Josh Gallagher and Will Rixon are in a pitched battle for 2nd in the state […]
Looks like we're on track for a 3rd straight claimer to win the inters then never win another race #HelloJeff — Harness Lover (@HarnessLover) October 7, 2023 A harness fan posted this after the world’s most improved horse who went from running 10th in a Melton claimer 2 months ago to running 1.48.6 at Menangle […]
Anyone who follows trot form knows that the former Kiwi pacer Lochart Shard is no good. His record up until a month ago spoke for itself. 39 starts for 2 wins. It doesn’t say much for the horse does it? Or nothing that’s good anyway. The pacer had been through 2 countries, a duet of […]
Former New Zealand trainer/driver Kyle Marshall’s incredible run of success since moving across the ditch to Australia continued on Saturday night when his smart 2YO Smoken Ace came 4-wide from 2nd last to brain his rivals in the last race at Melton. The win took Marshall’s winning strike rate to a quite incredible 41% for […]
Jason Grimson is far too good for the mere mortal trainer to match. He took the seemingly busted arse pacer HI MANAMEISJEFF from running last tailed out in a claimer to winning in Miracle Mile type time in the space of a fortnight. Who else but Emma Stewart could do that? Perhaps Clayton Tonkin, maybe. But […]
