Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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. […]
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 […]
