Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are no big prices among the five tips I am going to give you at the trots tonight, but if you multi them up you will be surprised at the price you get, particularly if you use the Bet Boost tool on Neds. It came up at $24.78 for a dollar for me. That’s […]
Not content with world domination in capital cities, the Aaron Bain/Summit Bloodstock/Alex Bashwood octopus has decided to stretch its tentacles to Tamworth, and swallow up all the prizemoney in that trot town too. DJ (Darren) Elder is their man in the hitherto drug free home of the Golden Guitar. I hope he has read the ancient […]
Jaden Lloyd is one hell of a jockey, an absolute gun. But his little brother Zac is just as good. The kid proved it yesterday in the last at Ipswich. Little Lloyd was riding an outsider in a five horse field. His rivals were the multiple Group 1 and Sydney premiership winner Larry Cassidy, gun […]
This may be hard to believe, but those who tell the story swear that it is true. A couple of years ago Harness Racing NSW spent $15 million building a track at Wagga, smack bang in the middle of dodgy Daryl Maguire’s electorate. The new course was going to revitalise the sport they said, and […]
Weasel was born when John Howard was Prime Minister. During his racing career there have been six PM’s since. They are Kevin 07 Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd Tony Abbott Malcolm Turnbull Scott Morrison All bar Morrison have gone the way of the Tasmanian Tiger. Weasel, at age fifteen, remains. He ran again at Redcliffe yesterday. […]
If standards of behaviour are breached, the entire profession comes into disrepute, its (racing’s) public standing is in jeopardy, and its standing as a respected and honourable profession is diminished – The Hon J W Gendall QC, NZ Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator New Zealand racing has a rule that un-vaxxed people can’t ride trackwork, just […]
One of NZ trainer Rochelle Lockett’s horses threw a positive swab to methamphetamine – speed or ice – at a recent meeting of the Otaki-Maori Jockey Club (which is a damn fine club with a real good track). No-one is suggesting that Ms Lockett gave the horse meth, or that she has anything to do […]
The Graham family spot your author strolling down the garden path (Linda is taking the picture) In 1991, Darrel Graham won the Australian Young Drivers Championship when the series was staged in Tasmania. http://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=33413 Jesus H. Christ. Darrel Graham and I are the same age. We from time to time played footy against each other, […]
There have been eleven applications for an Internal Review (appeals) determined by the QRIC’s ‘independent’ reviewer this year. 10 out of the 11 appeals against penalty have been rejected. That damn Sharlee Hoffman (formerly D’Avila, much to her chagrin) had to go and spoil the Stewards perfect score. Good. She was innocent anyway. I’m not […]
Not all that long ago the drainage at the Ipswich race track was that bad that if a pensioner with a leaky bladder peed on the track they immediately call the race meeting off for fear the jockeys and horses would drown. Yesterday it absolutely pissed down, so much so that the track was downgraded […]
