Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I just thought the headline was clever, which is why I wrote this tale, but the story behind it is even better. Josh Davine is the principal of the N40 racing operation, and the brains and money behind it too. He is young man who, through his business acumen, has become extraordinarily wealthy for a […]
The Tony Gollan trained gelding Dranitzelle incurred a proximal spiral stress fracture to the R radius (a long bone) on or about the 12th of May 2025. We don’t know how it happened, because the unacceptably brief Stewards Report into the matter – hidden away in the official report of an unrelated race meeting – […]
COMPULSORY REPORTING OF MAJOR FRACTURES, ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND APPROVAL OF AFFECTED HORSES TO RETURN TO RACING This policy is intended to help identify and manage racehorses that sustain major fractures or undergo major orthopaedic surgery and manage their return to training, galloping, trialling, and racing. Where a horse has sustained a major fracture and/or undergone […]
RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION Basic principles Rule 1 All prisoners shall be treated with the respect due to their inherent dignity and value as human beings. No prisoner shall be subjected to, and all prisoners shall be protected from, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, for which no circumstances whatsoever may […]
Story by Julian Linden: Daily Telegraph Legendary trotting reinsman Greg Bennett has won the biggest race of his life, scoring a decisive win in a landmark appeal to finally get his driver’s licence reinstated after almost a decade and a half on the outer. Harness racing’s one-time poster boy has been cleared to return to […]
After 15 years in harness racing’s wilderness, former champion NSW reinsman Greg Bennett’s long march to freedom is over after the QLD Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) this week declared Bennett to be a fit and proper person to hold a Class A Driver’s License. In 2011 was stood down from the sport and later […]
I love The Angels, don’t get me wrong. No Secrets turned up to full boom is one of the greatest songs in Australian history. Pure Steel who ran 2nd in the Miracle Mile in the year the song was released was one of the greatest pacers in Australian history too. But it’s history. The lead […]
Peter Wharton and Len Barker reckon that at this stage of her career Scotch Notch has got the wood on Keayang Zahara. Paul Court thinks La Coocaracha has. Court is kidding himself. La Coocaracha is not in the same league as the other pair, and any suggestion that she was is nuts. I am not […]
After last week Mack the knife taking to my pieces on Keayang and the quality of the potential Hunter Cup field I’ll say a couple of things before I indulge myself regarding this weeks Cranbourne Cup. Keayang won’t take on the pacers to meet Mack’s requirements to take Maoris Idol mantle. They don’t need to. […]
What a brilliant race the Cranbourne Cup is going to be. The race of the year. Twice in a month. Gee I love the trots. Let’s get the silly hype out of the way first. You’re going to hear these fairytale stories about the giant killer Bulletproof Boy, but ignore them, because he can’t stay. […]
