Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You know you’ve a programming problem when you can’t attract enough horses to make up a field for a $60 000 race. That is exactly what has happened to Harness Racing Victoria having to call off the Group 1 Sumthingaboutmaori for female trotters the this weekend and reschedule it to Anzac Day. HRV have fallen […]
Victorian trot trainer Naomi Kerr and driver Jack Laugher had a spectacular fallout last year involving Kerr’s partner David Vozlic, which saw the latter warned off for eight months after Vozlic childishly took offence to an equally juvenile Facebook emoji comment Laugher made on Facebook, and then went to the drivers room and assaulted and […]
The Cranbourne Cup clash between Leap To Fame, Kingman and Swayzee in the Cranbourne Cup on Saturday night is going to be an absolute ripper. Keayang Zahara’s procession in the trot will be something special too. But there is a third race on the card that promises to be just as good, the Group 3 […]
After last week Mack the knife taking to my pieces on Keayang and the quality of the potential Hunter Cup field I’ll say a couple of things before I indulge myself regarding this weeks Cranbourne Cup. Keayang won’t take on the pacers to meet Mack’s requirements to take Maoris Idol mantle. They don’t need to. […]
Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack is a genius of a driver. But no-one ever accused him of being honest. On Saturday night at Melton he proved both. Keith from QLD had the quaddie going 1300 times one out coming into the last leg, which wasn’t hard because the first 3 winners were the odds on faves Jilliby […]
Saturday night’s Shepparton Cup is not the clash of the Titans that it was talked up to be, but gee it’s going to be a good race. Leap to Fame v Kingman. Forget the rest. Kingman is drawn 1, Larry is two outside him in 3. The nation’s pre-eminent trot writer Adman Hamilton wrote during […]
The Naked Tipster has been hitting the gym hard this week in preparation for finding us a truckload of winners at Flemington tomorrow. Dr Whiting is caught in the bushfire zone up near Euroa and like many in the region has had to evacuate her home. She asks us all to say a prayer for […]
Fresh up from another great day last weekend the Doctor is back to give us even more winners. They reckon fire signs are in for a good year in 2026. Let’s hope so. Good luck and have a winning day.
Guest article by The Miner What should have been a simple, joyful New Year’s Eve outing instead became a case study in how Australia’s major sporting institutions continue to lose touch with ordinary families. When jockey Craig Newitt took his family to Flemington Racecourse for New Year’s Eve celebrations, the expectation was modest: kids’ activities, […]
I don’t know who this Sam Lyons clown is, because coat tuggers aren’t my style, but what I have discovered is that he is employed by racing.com at Head of Form of Wagering, which is bizarre given that when it comes to picking winners he has about a tenth of the ability as out nude […]
