Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This beautiful picture is of the champion pacer and second favourite for the New Zealand Trotting Cup Self-Assured, taken while he was spelling out in the paddock in May. Isn’t he just lovely? As a mate of mine said when they sent me the picture, any horse that is killer on the track and so […]
I was really enjoying my riding just before this happened and it was disappointing but I guess it is just how the game goes. They are just the cards you are dealt; you do not have any control of it and you just have to deal with it – Tegan Harrison Jockey Tegan Harrison has […]
We have written extensively about the myriad of unaddressed issues in South Australia harness racing over the past decade that have led to its slow decline and the industry in the State’s death by a thousand cuts, and latterly have been commenting that the sport in SA is on it’s last legs and spinning slowly […]
A punter sitting on top of a rock on Kapiti Island, wondering how Aaron Bain manages to get Kiwi horses to run so much faster in OZ. I have three things to say about yesterday’s Gawler Cup. The first is a message I wish to send to caller Jim Jacques about racism. Jim, I know […]
Simon Zahra – Not a Micro Man There are increasing whispers that the upcoming break up of a high profile training partnership is directly related to one member of the partnership’s increasingly close relationship with a very well known breeder, racing official and syndicator who now funds his racing endeavours by selling microscopic shares in […]
5 June 2021 A well fancied runner in the last is listed in official publications as having had a gear change by adding winkers. It is in fact wearing blinkers. The false advice to punters is blamed on a clerical error. 12 June 2021 There are delays to advertised starting times throughout the program due […]
Ellmers Image is a top class pacer trained by Amanda Turnbull that has won the 2019 Inter Dominion consolation. It has also won the Group 2 Treur Memorial and the Renshaw Cups, the Group 3 Ilsley Memorial and Mount Eden Stakes, and was runner-up in the Group 1 Bohemia Crystal Mile. Three starts ago it […]
One night I am standing in front of Mindy’s restaurant on Broadway, thinking of practically nothing whatever, when all of a sudden I feel a very terrible pain in my left foot. In fact, this pain is so very terrible that it causes me to leap up and down like a bullfrog, and to let […]
The house of cards continues to fall in the US horse doping cases after two more of the accused changed their verdicts to guilty on Friday. Trainer Marcos Zulueta has admitted to one charge of drug adulteration and misbranding with intent to commit fraud, and faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison and […]
I make no comment upon their worth as human beings because I don’t know them, but the records show that as far as their conduct in harness racing is concerned, the current or formerly licensed Russo clan is just no good. Paul Russo is the elder statesman of the trot side of the family. Peter […]
