Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Codename Marcus came into Saturday night’s Chariots of Fire qualifier The Bonanza with the sort of form that would make you want to slit your wrists if you owned him, Two starts back he’d been smashed by Leap To Fame by nearly fifty metres in the Vic Derby, and then he’d gone like a mule […]
Do you remember the gala Hunter Cup barrier draw events that the Victorian Harness Racing Club held at the Crown Casino in 2021 and 2022? The ones on which they dropped a motza? And at which they launched and then consolidated the Graeme Lang Medal for the trainer of the most Group 1 winners and […]
International globetrotting steward Pete ‘the Plodder’ Chadwick started work at Harness Racing Victoria on the weekend, with the great man sitting on the panels at both the Group 1 Southern Stars and Hunter Cups meetings on Friday and Saturday night respectively. Chadwick sat ON the panels, he didn’t CHAIR them. The reason for that is […]
The opening market in the Hunter has changed utterly in the past 24 hours. Copy That opened up at the ridiculously short quote of $2.15, but has blown out to a more realistic $3.20, with more flex to come I reckon. It’s the other Kiwi that the money has come for, Old Town Road. He’s […]
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We will set the issue of the self-proclaimed ‘expert’ sporting analogist Jason Bonnington’s utter humiliation of himself by wrongly declaring the Hagler-Hearns 1985 world middleweight title bout a 12 round slug fest in the Sun-Herald yesterday aside (it actually went 3 round, and ended in a TKO), and instead focus on the nonsense he spouted […]
I like taking note of quotes from smart men too. In racing, they are generally men who can count. After all, it’s a game of numbers and percentages isn’t it? A reduction in turnover from $160 million to $60 million isn’t a loss of 60%. It’s a drop of 62.5%. A 60% reduction would have […]
The W.S. Cox Plate is Australia’s greatest weigh-for-age race, and one of the top 15 races in the world. It is a national icon of racing, and the 2nd most coveted all aged prize in Australian racing behind the Melbourne Cup. The honor board board of winners of the race is a who’s who of […]
There are two schools of thought about the former Kiwi pacer Cranbourne’s win in last night’s Shepparton Cup. One is that it was the boat race from hell. It certainly looked like it. The other is that Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack simply bluffed and bullied his rival drivers into submitting to his will, and ground them […]
You have never seen a Group 1 win in your life like that of the Emma Stewart trained The Lost Storm in the final of Group 1 Vicbred Super Series at Melton last night. Everyone used to think that the Mark Purdon trained Akuta’s 10 length win in the Group 1 two-year-old Harness Jewels at […]
