Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Most readers are familiar with the miraculously transformed pacer Swayzee by now, for we have been telling you about him for months. He’s the one that was running around Redcliffe and running last in lowly rating 70 affairs six months ago when 33 time Group 1 winning NZ Hall of Fame trainer Tim Butt had […]
Freddy Taiba is one of the luckiest harness trainers ever to feed a horse in a barn. Most people wait a lifetime to get a champion and die with their dream unfulfilled. Not him. He lobbed an out and 0ut superstar in just his 2nd year of training. Sushi Sushi was his name. He was […]
Danny Shum is apparently a very hard working trainer but he’s no genius. Don’t you read the paper, after the race Romantic Warrior got beat in he fessed up that the horse wasn’t eating the Australian feed mix and the horses Hong Kong feed mix had just been flown in……. Shum’s horse won the Cox […]
Wyndham based horseman Craig Ferguson is absolutely on fire this season. So hot that he us training winners and placegetters at a ratio to starters never seen before in NZ this century. The highest UDR (see picture at top) ever recorded by at season’s end by a trainer in the top 12 on the premiership […]
Anthony Bullock is Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer. He has won 13 of the past 14 State Premierships. Which is probably a good reason why dog racing in the Apple Isle should be shut. It’s well-known that I both like greyhounds as animals, and that I like racing them, and I don’t think that as a […]
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. […]
