Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 31st of July a chestnut gelding named Rosedale Miss trained by Tom Smith was entered in and won a jumpout at Rockhampton. The problem is that it wasn’t Rosedale Miss that ran in the trial. It was its grey coloured stablemate Greylist. Added note: Although Greylist is officially listed in the records as […]
Dean Elliott, the chief executive enabler Harness Racing South Australia announced yesterday that trainer Shane Loone has been charged with corruption, deception, improper conduct and betting offences in relation to a race at Gawler last month. If HRSA had done its job properly in the first place it never could have happened. About three years […]
Here is the guts of what the Stewards say happened, with a bit of our commentary incorporated into the tale. Shane Loone has two horses in race 6 at Gawler on the 12th of August, Majoreholeinmypocket and Illawong Kim. Loone nominates himself as the driver of Majorholeholeinmypocket. Given that he couldn’t drive a nail into […]
What happened in race 2 at Newcastle can be shown to you because out of consideration for the injured parties the replay has not been published, which is a decision that we agree with. We can tell you from the Stewards report that Zara Fitzpatrick’s drive Solar Express was checked while racing ungenerously and fell, […]
Want to see something that should ring alarm bells? With the exception of Showsomejoy, who ran 5.8 seconds faster than its previous best winning time to take out race 1 in 1.53.8 off a soft sit on a slick pace, every single one of Emma Stewart’s eight other VicBred Super Series semi-final winners ran times […]
Emma Stewart turned out 39 runners in the semis of the Breeders Crown last night at Melton. 34 of them qualified for the rich grand finals. Stewart won 9 of the semi-finals, ran the quinella in 7 of them, the trifecta in 3, and the first four in 1 more. All up her stable took […]
On the same night that G. Hall Jr gave us a demonstration in the Eureka of how not to drive a horse in a big race, Kate Gath put on a master class that showed exactly how to do it right. Gath’s steer on Catch A Wave in the Len Smile was simply superb, a […]
Mister had been with trainer Garry Bignell for about a month coming into race 5 at Birdsville yesterday. It had been beaten more than ten lengths in both starts that it has had for him. The most recent drubbing was 6 days ago at Betoota over the 1200m, the same distance as yesterday’s race. Birdsville […]
Trot trainer John Livingstone was a well known face and fixture at harness race meetings around South-East Queensland and the Tweed for the better part of four decades, until his grief-driven retirement from the game about a dozen years ago in the wake of the tragic, far too early passing of his beloved wife and […]
At its previous start prior to last night the Seaton Grima trained and driven Go Oh Mickey had been sent out a $1.70 favorite in a weak NR55 mares race at Newcastle, which seemed a bit over the odds considering that it had beaten a similar class field the start before at the same track […]
