Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
About three days ago Racing Victoria announced its new ‘Million dollar Summer of Speed series’. A month before it begins. How do you prep a sprinter for a series that kicks off in just 4 weeks time? It would be a good trick, wouldn’t it? These races are rubbish, and it is not even really […]
What on earth would possess any sane racing authority enough to convince them that transferring the Underwood Stakes at Caulfield to Sandown, and then moving the Sandown Cup, Guineas and Zipping Classic (formerly the Eclipse Stakes) to Caulfield and moving it back a fortnight while keeping the same now totally inappropriate names was a good […]
This is race 4 at Albury last night. The $1.60 favourite Redbank Tommy leads until the straight, and then gallops for seemingly no reason at all. Second favourite The Lurker, drawn inside of the back row in the yellow and blue horizontal bars with the red sleeves and blue cap, is driven stone cold dead […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/TEC09112106.mp4 You are looking at race 1 at the Terang trots last night. This is the hottest race in the world. It is a double set up. The race is run by one team to ensure that the heavily backed favourite Malaki wins. And it is run by the other – a band of one, […]
The Breeders Crown is a very interesting race series that tends to showcase the best 2 and 3-year-old’s in Australia, and sometimes New Zealand too, but it is hardly the great advertisement for yearling sales that it should be. 3 of the 6 winners of the three-year-old heats were bred by their owners, and never […]
What is wrong with this picture? Everything. The Breeders Crown is the harness racing equivalent of the Golden Slipper and the Caulfield Guineas. Harness Racing NSW will disagree, but they are the ones restricting their premier age group races to pacers with a NSW connection, not HRV whose championship is open to all comers. Imagine […]
See that land in the yellow box? Harness Racing Victoria owns it. The Melton Shire Council sold it to them for $3 million back in the early 2000’s, when Melton was still just a small semi-rural area and steadily developing low cost housing satellite suburb with 50 000 – 60 000 residents. At the time […]
All this hue and cry and international outrage about the compulsory new CT scan testing required prior to a horse being accepted into the Melbourne Cup, and Racing Victoria did not even have a back up plan should the scanner break down. That is just incomprehensible and inexcusable, and negligence of the highest order. A […]
Most race tracks become slower when it rains heavily. Not the Geelong Paceway. It speeds up. I have no idea how, but numbers don’t lie. Due to persistent rain the mobile barrier had to be tested from all starting points prior to the first race, and Stewards ordered that mudguards be fitted to all carts […]
A horse named Rushford was backed from $7 into $4.80 in the 5th race at Yarra Valley on Saturday afternoon. Another runner in the race Southern Native was backed from $9.50 into $6.50. The favourite is Valley of Hearts, which has been steady in the market at $3.60 Liam Riordan is riding a $31 outsider […]
