Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What the hell is Racing Victoria doing by allowing this Gold Trip – Cox Plate fiasco to unfold the way it has? Is the high class French horse sound or is it not sound? Surely with less than 36 hours to go until post time someone must know. This whole thing has turned into a […]
In recent months there has been a rash of poorly performing favourites in harness races in Victoria. I don’t mean favourites just being beaten, I am referring to short priced runners that are putting in runs so far below their usual standard of form that it jumps out off the page at you, and makes […]
Well it probably wasn’t, but I am writing this story so I am allowed to call Cole Diesel’s win in 1989 the greatest if I want to, and bully for the rest of them. How many Caulfield Cup winners do you know that step up from over the mile in the Toorak the week before, […]
Lightning Jash’s driver Alex Ashwood was just having a bit of a snooze there. He’s awake now! Bendigo race caller, telling us what we all see, for the benefit of the radio listeners The Alby Ashwood trained and driven Lightning Jash was was backed for a stack in the 5th at the Bendigo trots last […]
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 […]
