Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jockey John Allen stood himself down from riding at Caulfield yesterday and went in to immediate self-isolation awaiting the result of a COVID test he took after becoming aware that he had without knowing visited a Tier 2 site in recent days. It is not Allen’s fault. Tier 2 sites are things like schools and […]
The tenth race at the Ballarat trots on Saturday night highlights the absolute absurdity of the Victorian grading system, and makes a mockery of the ratings system and the idea of like racing like in the same class. How can you have a claimer where the claim price of the horses ranges from $20 000 […]
This was received last night from a harness racing industry expert. It is a very astute analysis/ Well there is the ultimate exercise in stupidity from Harness Racing Victoria. Why did it edit the video to cut out the interference in the straight? If it wasn’t TABCorp putting up the replay in its entirety someone else […]
Harness Racing Victoria can splice the replay of the Vic Cup as much as they like, but until they coordinate with the naming sponsor of the Melton Paceway, it isn’t going to achieve anything other than raising questions about why they did it. The TAB have the full replay up. This is the vital bit, […]
Watch this. It’s the last 250m of the Group 1 Victoria Cup on Saturday night, replicated directly from the official replay of the race published on the Harness Racing Victoria and Harness Racing Australia websites. What you are seeing is the fastest 250m ever run in the entire world history of harness racing. It will […]
See that red post in the picture? That is a marker post that the start of the sprint lane. This is a still frame of the field at the top of the home straight as they prepare to charge to the line in the $300 000 Group 1 Victoria Cup, worth $171 000 to […]
This is not Chris Alford’s fault, and is probably just coincidence all round, but literally two seconds after he had breached the rules by entering the sprint lane early on Max Delight, driver Josh Aiken on Malcom’s Rhythm appears to look momentarily to his right to see what is coming down the outside, and then […]
In the year 2010 Harness Racing Victoria paid $33.7 million in prizemoney to participants. By 2020 the total stakes had increased to $41.6 million. You little ripper. An additional $7.9 million has been injected into harness racing. Well yes, but no, and not quite. Nine million more is being paid out in prizemoney compared to […]
What is wrong with this picture? The simple answer? Everything. Harness Racing Victoria is failing on every key indicator and metric that matters to the industry and to those in it, except prizemoney. We will come to that later. The number of meetings has dropped by over ten percent in ten years, and there […]
It was truly wonderful to see Bailey McDonough and his Dad with whom he has recently physically reconnected after years living on other sides of the continent win their way through to the final of the Victorian Derby in the heats on Saturday night with Blitzern. Bailey’s was a heady, patient, mature and all round […]
