Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Victoria has floated wholesale changes to next year’s Spring Carnival, including moving established Group 1 races. RV has privately met with all three Melbourne clubs and consulted Country Racing Victoria, with an appetite to capture the later part of the year when there is little competition from other sports and the weather is typically […]
The question about Spirit of St Louis’ run in the ID 22 Final is not just why it went so bad. It is why after its atrocious performance in Round 3 that the Stewards even let it run at all. Spirit went like a busted arse in that final heat. He sat 1-1 and had […]
The picture published on Racenet of Tommy Berry and Kayla Nisbet is a tad misleading. Berry and Nisbet aren’t partners. They are in-laws. Kayla Nisbet’s sister Sharnee is Berry’s partner. The cases are unrelated, as the NSW Stewards say. Sort of anyway. They picked it up off Berry’s phone. There is a story goes with […]
This minor infringement fine issued to Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack for cheating in the 3rd and final round of the ID22 Trotting heats is both outrageous, and a clear example of how the stewarding in Victoria is on the nose. Cracker’s horse Always Ready was drawn in gate 2, directly behind the $151 shot Teetreetommy, which […]
So do you want the good news, or the bad news? Let’s go good first. Emma Stewart (aka Clayton Tonkin) can only win 6 of the 10 races at Melton on Saturday night, because she is not contesting the other four. The bad news is that she can win all of the other six. She […]
So far there have been 6 heats of ID22 run. meaning that there have been 18 placings in these heats. Horses trained by Tonkin and Stewart have filled 9 of these 18 spots. Belinda McCarthy trained pacers have filled a further 4. That’s just two stables that have produced 13 of the 18 placed horses […]
Our mail is that former Queensland Chief Thoroughbred Steward Peter Chadwick will soon be announced as the new Chief Steward for Harness Racing Victoria. We have been unable to confirm the information, so we are not as confident as we usually are about such things, but we are lifelong gamblers, so at the risk of […]
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. […]
