Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
This is what’s wrong with harness racing. We glorify people who should be thrown head first out of the sport. Yesterday we told you about Jack ‘Breaker’ Laugher copping his umpteenth suspension for whip rule breach offences, which are acts of abject animal cruelty under another name. Breaker’s latest 5 week suspension was deferred to […]
Decron Horse Care is a highly reputable company run by Copy That’s owner Merv Butterworth, a good and honourable man and a great supporter of harness racing. What a great shame it is that Merv’s generous sponsorship of the Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Drivers Championship was blighted by the series being won by Jack ‘Breaker’ […]
