Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Here is another fascinating Steve Dolan/John Curtin combo pacer. This time the horse is not sired by Auckland Reactor, but by his father Mach Three instead. Same line, same genes, same blood, same cells, once removed. Tall Poppy is this pacers name. The other differences are that she is a mare, and that Steve Dolan […]
For the last 30 years people have been complaining that the trots have gone the way of the dinosaurs, never to return. I don’t believe them. Everyone bets on the gallops, but unless you are rich enough to buy one – i.e. worth a couple of mil or more in change – or keen enough […]
John ‘Lucky’ Lingard is the best writer in racing. Pam O’Neill is every woman in racing’s hero. Both of them are people I am very proud to call my good mates. Lucky says that Queen Pammy should be on the board of Racing Queensland. I totally agree. As Bob Hawke once said, anyone who doesn’t […]
I am buggered if I know who the horse trainer Jack Brown is. All I know about the bloke is: (a) He trained his first winner in 2013 (b) From 139 starters in a decade, Brown has trained just 9 winners (c) Jackie boy’s strike rate is 6% (d) On Saturday he raced a horse […]
Gee, I wonder why the Stewards are looking at G. Hall Junior’s whip use. He’s the one in the yellow and blue one off the fence in the death. I suspect little Gaz may have breached the whip rule. How about you?
The combination of growth hormone (GH) and recombinant erythropoietin (rEPO) is thought to be used particularly in endurance sports. Our objective was to reproduce a 2-week administration of rEPO microdoses alone or in combination with GH microdoses (three times a week) on healthy and athletic male subjects and to evaluate if GH had any additional […]
They reckon it was worth the $75 ticket to the Bathurst Harness Racing Awards night on Friday was well the price of admission just for the fights. First up there was Mrs Nigel Frisby v Mrs Josh Turnbull in the ladies loo, allegedly blueing over news that for reasons unknown Josh had been cut out […]
Here is the bowled Steve Dolan, caught John Curtin hat trick. This time it is an Auckland Reactor gelding called Atomic Blast. He is a bit different from the other pair of Love the Blues and Team Kiwi, in that Dolan trains him from the start of his career. They back him off the map […]
Love the Blues was a slow horse, like many pacers are before international bloodstock agent John Curtin and his friend and trainer Steve Dolan get their hands on them. In 18 starts the Auckland Reactor gelding had won just a single race, a lowly affair at Invercargill way back in March 2020. A brief interlude […]
Team Kiwi was a fair pacer up until the 7th of June 2020, but not a great one. Up until that date the gelding had raced 20 times for three win, The first 2 had been at his 2nd and 3rd career starts fifteen months before, in lowly races at Wyndham and Invercargill in the […]
