Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We cast no judgement upon either Mr TA Wier or his brother Michael. All we say is racing integrity depends upon knowing who exactly it is who are buying our yearlings. Thaddeus? Please. Michael and Thaddeus Wier Jr. were spared prison terms Friday but each was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and perform 1,000 […]
Eddie Lohmeyer (top), and Alan Galloway below. Doppelgangers. Pacific Rocket was the pacer who ran the previous fastest quarter mile in world history. His trainer was a bloke named Ed Lohmeyer, a highly successful businessman whose first love was the trots. Ed’s other passion outside of work and his family was flying vintage light aircraft. […]
Better Eclipse won the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire at Menangle last night, and gains an automatic entry into the Miracle Mile. It shouldn’t have, for Better Eclipse has got a past. A real shady one too. Craig Hoban used to train the horse. He lost his licence at the end of a glass pipe […]
Alright. Watch this. You are looking at the horse on the inside, the one in the maroon and white. Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor is it’s driver. Watch his foot. And while you are doing so, ask yourself whether horses deserve to be kicked hard to make them run faster, or least as fast as they can […]
I would smile like the Cheshire Cat too if I had accidentally stumbled upon the golden cross. In fact, I do, because I did. How lucky is Darrel Graham who I used to play footy against as a kid, and reunited with later in life? How lucky am I? In 4-legged harness racing the golden […]
I am writing because I can’t speak. I am sitting here stunned. Shocked. The leader in the Group 1 Chariots of Fire, the Victorian pacer Bettor Call Me, has just run 24.3 seconds for its first quarter mile. 24.3 SECONDS! It is the fastest quarter ever run by a pacer in the history of world […]
Mark Jones comes from a long line of royalty in New Zealand harness racing, although you would never know it. His grandfathers Derek Jones and Reg Stockdale, and his father Peter Jones are legends of the game. Jones’s cousins Anthony and Tim Butt are too. The difference between cousin 1 and Jones though is that […]
Nathan Jack has been out of harness racing for a long time, for so long now that I have forgotten how long it actually is. Let’s just say forever. It doesn’t really matter anymore, for N. Jack is back. Mach. Big time. The man who was not that long ago reviled by many – including […]
