Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was having a yarn recently with the great Australian writer Andrew Rule of Chopper, Underbelly, Winx, Chance and many other great books fame, and the discussion turned to the topic of the greatest Australian racing writer ever. As my early bids I threw up names like Max Presnell, Bert Lillye, Frank Hardy,Rollo Roylance, the […]
The Grand Circuit is the world heavyweight championship of harness racing. It’s fought over seven gruelling rounds of super-elite racing designed to sort the men out from the boys and girls. I’m not using that phrase to be sexist, simply because it is the truth. Just as world women’s heavyweight champ Hanna Gabriels wouldn’t last 10 […]
Lightning Jash’s driver Alex Ashwood was just having a bit of a snooze there. He’s awake now! Bendigo race caller, telling us what we all see, for the benefit of the radio listeners The Alby Ashwood trained and driven Lightning Jash was was backed for a stack in the 5th at the Bendigo trots last […]
Watch the replay below. It is a heat of the rich 3YO NSW Breeders Challenge run at Bathurst last night. Winning it guarantees a pacer a place in the semi-finals. Five quick things before you look. Mitch Turnbull is driving the leader. His sister Amanda is on his back. The favourite is in the death. […]
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – are the enemy of the racing industry. They hate us, and want to shut us down. We’re cruel, wicked torturers they reckon, animal exploiters and speciests of the worst kind. What’s a speciest you ask? A person who believes that humans run the world, not […]
When the New Zealand Racing Integrity Unit was set up in the wake of the Messara report there was great hope that the new, independent (to a degree) body would jump boots and all into the job and start cleaning up the plague of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. On the evidence published to […]
Jockey John Allen stood himself down from riding at Caulfield yesterday and went in to immediate self-isolation awaiting the result of a COVID test he took after becoming aware that he had without knowing visited a Tier 2 site in recent days. It is not Allen’s fault. Tier 2 sites are things like schools and […]
The tenth race at the Ballarat trots on Saturday night highlights the absolute absurdity of the Victorian grading system, and makes a mockery of the ratings system and the idea of like racing like in the same class. How can you have a claimer where the claim price of the horses ranges from $20 000 […]
Let me tell you something for free, there is a three-year-old named Birriecart that just raced in the 1st of Doomben who is a really, really good horse. I know for a fact that Shajaea is an open company galloper of the future, at the very least, but the O’Dea and Hoysted trained youngster just […]
