Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Victoria has appointed a bloke who runs the netball in NSW as it’s new CEO to replace Giles Thompson, after the latter lost the battle with Peter V’Landys and walked the plank. Netball hey? That’s interesting. Let’s hope Andrew Jones (pictured at top) does a better job that his predecessor did, for despite the […]
Deadest drive you’ve ever driven? Bettorz Beach at Mildura last night. The long standing track record at Mildura over 1790m is held by the Joe Costa trained Beachstar, who ran it in a mile rate of 1.56.2 in a fast class race on Australia Day 2016. Beachstar’s early splits that night were 11.6 for the lead […]
David Aiken trained 2 of the 6 runners in the Free-For-All at Melton on Saturday night. The pair were Max Delight and Malcolm’s Rhythm, both Grand Circuit horses. Max had won 2 derbies, a Breeders Crown and a Victoria Cup. Malcolm had run 2nd to Max in the NSW Derby – beating Lochinvar Art into […]
Am I missing something here? Kalarney Heidi has won the Victorian Square Trotters Association award for Trotter of the Year. This mare raced 43 times during the season for just 6 wins, none of that at black type level. She earned $39 180 in prizemoney in the 2021 year. Her fastest winning time was 2.02.3. […]
It’s no secret in racing circles that the former managing owner of Flash Aah doesn’t like your author very much, which is no skin off my nose, for I’m rather indifferent to him myself. That doesn’t stop me loving my favourite horse though. I’ve written about Flash Aah and how good he is many times […]
Are the Harness Racing Victoria Stewards for real? A Kiwi pacer having its first start for Alex Ashwood rears and the start and falls, crashing heavily to the ground. The vet inspects the horse and declares it unfit to run. While he is removing the harness from the horse Ashwood – a coward with well […]
Ben Yole had 34 of the 70 runners in the seven races his stable horses contested at Launceston last night. Chainsaw returned the grand total of 1 winner. The good news is that he owned the winner himself. Australia’s greatest trainer is on fire. He is so hot he burns. In many more ways than […]
It’s pretty hard to argue with the Steward’s decision on the protest in the Mornington Guineas. Beau Mertens on the first past the post horse Sharp Response clearly came out on top of Ollie on Jungle Magnate. Mertens also looked to have deliberately used his elbows on Oliver, and to have intentionally smashed his rival’s […]
A pacer named Bobsled Boy had twelve starts for experienced provincial trot trainer Kevin Weidenbach between 18 November 2021 and 16 February 2022. It didn’t win or run a place in any of them. The horse’s average beaten margin across them all was about 30 metres a race. It gets transferred to Alex Ashwood and […]
Adam Hamilton raised an interesting point in his column this week on thetrots.com.au when he stated his belief that Kevin Seymour’s NSW Derby winner Leap To Fame was still at this stage only the 3rd best three-year-old in Australasia behind the Kiwi star Akuta and the Victorian based Catch a Wave. I thought I would […]
