Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Tianni Chapman is just a young 3 kilo kid learning her trade riding at bush tracks and she has only had 40 rides so it is impossible to be too critical of her. But I bet this ride on Without Excuse at Bairnsdale today won’t be one that goes on her highlights reel at the […]
Here is the tip. Racing.com Move the bloody times down from the top to the bottom of the screen will you? Please. No-one except cows, hurdlers and stipes wives want to see grass, fences and Stewards in pork pie hats. We want to see how horse is travelling, and to do that we need to […]
I’m quite sure that Queenslanders and Western Australians have never been happier happier with their political representatives in the entire history of Federation that we are right now. While we see and read of the havoc and carnage that the coronavirus is wreaking in NSW and Victoria, it all seems so far away, almost as […]
The ACS referred to in this conversation by the two NZ trainers is Autologous-Conditioned Serum. That is the scientific word for spun blood of the kind used by the former All Stars Stable of Natalie Rasmussen and Mark Purdon, and sold by the company that they directed named Equine Blood Solutions. It is taken from […]
The incident above occurs, where the driver of the horse in the white forces out underneath the driver of the horse in red when they have no lawful right to do so, and in the process they flatten the horse out wide in green and send it into a mad gallop. The driver in red […]
I would like to make a bet with you. The bet is that the pacer Watchmylips, which got beaten almost 100 metres last Saturday at Melton but mysteriously didn’t get stood down, won’t be going to Tasmania for a spell at all. My bet is that the pacer with a clear problem will be going […]
