Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 Given that Dad has withdrawn his appeal, there is no extension provided to […]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 […]
Bjorn Baker’s amazing run of success in 2025 continued last night at Canterbury when he notched up a treble from just five starters on the card. The hat-trick took Baker’s tally of wins since New Years day to an incredible 44 wins and 44 placings from just 144 runners, at strike rates of 31.2% the […]
Hi Jack There has been a great deal of information exchanged between myself and the Racing NSW Licensing Committee over the last few days. I believe we are now on a path towards approval and I expect we will have a determination to that effect on Monday morning. In the meantime, Racing NSW have provided […]
The rumor mill is running rife that a leading Toowoomba trainer has had two horses throw positive swabs to Meloxicam. We won’t name them at present until we can confirm, but no-one will be surprised if and when we do. You will just shake your head and say surely they couldn’t be that silly could […]
Brendan James is a Tamworth based trainer whose horse threw a positive swab to Phenylbutazone, often referred to as “bute”, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory painkilling drug for the short-term treatment of pain and fever in horses. Pacers and trotters are not allowed to race with bute in their system, because it masks pain from injuries […]
