Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Copy That had to beat COVID-19, the North Island hoodoo, a stunning team drive by Nat and Mark, and the 2nd best horse in Australasia to win the NZ Trotting Cup today. And he did it! Congratulations to Merv Butterworth and his wife Meg. Merv has been telling me for more than a year now […]
What you see in the picture is race 8 at Te Aroho (which by the way means Love) in New Zealand. There are eight starters in the race, and Atomic is one of them. Atomic runs third. Neds and Ladbrokes pay a place dividend for him, so do the TAB. So does everyone actually, except […]
What’s going on over there in New Zealand on Cup Day is just so ridiculous that it makes a mockery of the game. Mark Purdon has driven the winners of five of the seven races so far. The last two were legless at their last starts, absolutely legless. 18 days ago All About Faith ran […]
Race 5 no 3 – Shan Noble (Each Way) On paper this looks to be Krug’s race for the taking, and it probably is too, but I just haven’t felt the vibe from his two runs since coming back from Brisbane. As such I am prepared to bet against him, but only on an each way […]
We went crap at the gallops on the weekend. Four tips for only one third place, but because we bet strictly win only that is a straight loss of 4 units. Running Total Invest – 31 Return – 43 Profit/Loss – Profit 12 ROI – 38.7% Now to the trots. We had 12 bets (3 […]
The Breeders Crown is a very interesting race series that tends to showcase the best 2 and 3-year-old’s in Australia, and sometimes New Zealand too, but it is hardly the great advertisement for yearling sales that it should be. 3 of the 6 winners of the three-year-old heats were bred by their owners, and never […]
What is wrong with this picture? Everything. The Breeders Crown is the harness racing equivalent of the Golden Slipper and the Caulfield Guineas. Harness Racing NSW will disagree, but they are the ones restricting their premier age group races to pacers with a NSW connection, not HRV whose championship is open to all comers. Imagine […]
I can’t remember the last time that Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor went ten starts without a win as a trainer. It certainly hasn’t happened in his last 100 starters. Not until now anyway. Turbo’s phone got seized by the HRNSW Stewards on the 24th of October. He hasn’t trained a winner from his ten runners since. […]
… I also can’t remember the last time that Jason Grimson went 10 starts without a winner. He hasn’t missed the mark in his past 100 starts either. Until now. Weird hey? Remember that nursery rhyme they used to sing us when we were kids?
The Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds has renewed calls for a ban on greyhound racing after two more deaths on Bundaberg tracks. According to a recent stewards‘ report, two-year-old Mum’s the One and veteran dog Armby’s Dream were both euthanised by the on-track vet on November 1. Mum’s the One, aged two, had collided […]
