Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Gee this Kiwi trainer Craig Ferguson’s form has improved a bit hasn’t it? It’s not just because he fluked a top horse either. His 7 wins have been achieved with 6 different ponies. So what is the secret to this man’s sudden success, and his Emma Stewart like strike rate? You’d have to have ask […]
I have watched this replay of the finish of race 6 at the Ashburton trots yesterday 10 ten times, and I still can’t see a margin for the winner. Do I need new glasses? I dunno. One thing that I would like to know is why Korban Newman, one of the stable drivers for the […]
Not only is Emma Stewart the greatest trot trainer ever to roam the earth, her partnership with formerly convicted and disqualified match cheat (overturned on appeal) sulky jockey Mark Pitt is the greatest trainer/driver combo in the long history of the harness racing sport. Together the pair have won 37 of their last 55 starts, […]
The 47 time winning open class pacer Mark Dennis had until last night held the 1800m track record at Globe Derby for five and a half years. He ran a mile rate of 1.53.5 in setting the mark. Encipher is a very, very talented 3-year-old filly trained by Emma Stewart. But she’s still a three-year-old […]
Metro trainers premiership 2015/16 Seven years ago gallops trainer John Zielke was riding the crest of a wave, and enjoying a run of success that delivered the former security guard a million dollars in stake earnings in a single season. Zielke followed that magical 2015/16 run with seasons in which he earned more than half […]
Group 1 winning trainer Rob Heathcote insists he made an honest mistake in treating his horses with a banned product, which led to his runners being sensationally scratched by order of stewards at Doomben on Saturday. Heathcote admitted using a product called Hemoplex on his horses. The multiple Group 1 winner said he had been using […]
Before ….. The Christians reckon that the greatest gift of all is the atonement of Jesus Christ. That’s typical happy clapping nonsense spouted by do-gooders who don’t punt. Everyone with half a brain knows that the greatest gift is a gift wrapped couple of bottle of Menangle’s finest. Delivered by a bloke who feels guilty […]
Adam Hamilton wrote a lovely spruik job yesterday about the genius of Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson. He’s the next Stanley Dancer if you believe Adam’s hype, or probably more correctly the next Vin Knight or Tubby Peace. Is there anyone old enough to remember them who doesn’t look back to that decade in the 1980’s and […]
Majestic Cruiser ran 4th of 5 in a claimer at Ballarat on Boxing Day 2020. He had 22 starts after that, and won just one of them, in an NR80-94 at Melton After he ran a poor seventh in another NR80-94 race at Melton on the 26th of June last year against weak opposition, Majestic […]
The Julie Douglas camp is as dodgy as a trot camp comes. She’s the trainer on paper, but her husband Glenn is really in charge of the reins. Glenn relinquished his ticket because he and stable employee Ellen Tormey were fighting a DQ for drenching in the courts, so as is the time honoured custom […]
