Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Caulfield are going to get 10 000 people to the races on Saturday week are they? Oh yeah. How? A real good crowd on a pre-COVID Caulfield Guineas day only 22 000. Outside of Cup and Guineas days the average attendance at the track is about 3 000 – 4 000 tops, and those numbers […]
You may be wondering why the Melbourne Cup death of the horse Anthony Van Dyck is all over the racing news again, and why trainer Aidan O’Brien has come out and pointed the finger of blame at the Racing Victoria vets. It is because of the unrelenting research and work of a former top journalist […]
The Racing Victoria report into the death of Anthony Van Dyck in The Cup is a total and utter farce, a sick joke played upon everyone in the sport of racing. The simple fact is that this horse should never have been allowed to race, either of his connections or by the vets employed by […]
Two days ago we told you our views about race 1 at Terang on Tuesday night. The Stewards report is now out. Here is what we said, what the stipes found, and our comments. Not much of it is good. RACE 1 – REID STOCKFEEDS 3YO PACE (1680 MS) Alex Ashwood has 2 runners in the race, […]
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 […]
