Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing Victoria’s website is the trots.com.au HRV is hosting the 2022 Inter-Dominion. It’s in right now, the first heats were run last Saturday. What a great opportunity to promote the state and the sport. And we get this. Good onya HRV. Bewdy.
Here’s the rub. In any ‘normal’ race, it’s naturally expected that every combatant is there to win. That’s not so natural here. The goal, you see, is based on accumulation; point accumulation. Blazing out on night one, showing all your cards and playing all your aces may sound fun; but it’s equally likely to prove […]
When Peter V’Landys cheekily suggested during the Victorian COVID-19 lockdown two years back that the Melbourne Cup should be run at Randwick every man and his dog poo-pooed him, quite rightly saying that the Cup is a Flemington race and that should never change. It is too, and it should always be run at headquarters. […]
Yet another international galloper has been scratched from racing in Victoria in a big race. This time it is the English galloper Without A Thought, who – like Durston in the Caulfield Cup – was the favourite to win the Zipping Classic being run at Caulfield tomorrow. During the repeated CT scanning taking process applied […]
We are pleased to announce that the new CEO replacing Dayle Browne at Harness Racing Victoria is a man named Matt Isaacs. Isaacs – a graduate of Sydney University who finished dux in his MBA year – is from a retail background, and spent the earlier part of his career in management roles at Coca-Cola […]
Sometimes when I spot a blatant cheat in a race, my deep but healthy dose of cynicism about all things punt and racing leads me to look for the immediate dollar outcome rather than the one next week. That’s what I did when I wrote that Rod Lakey must have taken a First 4 when […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/ECC31052209.mp4 Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole brought two horses all the way from Tasmania last night to race in the 9th at Echuca. One was Machavelli, a 7-year-old rating 37 mare who had won 5 of her 43 starts in the Apple Isle over the past 2 seasons. She was drawn in the one gate and driven by […]
Well I have to say that I have enormous trouble believing this one. Mach the Knife is an 8-year-old retired light bay gelding that was stood down from racing in February, and hasn’t graced a track since. Steeven is a 4YO darkish bay gelding. The don’t look a whole lot alike. Or at all really. […]
Why the hell in the modern age does Racing Victoria sanction and support the holding of an divisive event like a racing mass to celebrate the Spring Carnival? Mass is a Catholic thing. Only 20 percent of Australians identify as Catholic. About 1/6th of them attend church, which means that only 3% of Australians do, […]
As you might have realised, for various reasons I have a bit of a thing for the racing rules. It is weird interest I know, but if people are going to use rules against you then you need to know and understand them better than the people, otherwise they are going to beat you up. […]
