Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We wrote a couple of days ago about how disappointed we were that the standard of Stewarding at the trots in QLD hadn’t improved since Neil Finnigan assumed the role of Chief Steward, and the total inaction taken about a number of horses that galloped at yesterday’s Marburg all trot meeting reinforces our fears. Let […]
Hey Archie Any chance the Canary’d latest syndicate horse Smackdown has a wind problem? One that requires a throat operation? They’re betting $1.10 about it out where I come from. https://peterprofit.com/?s=smackdown I guess you were wondering why the Canary marketed it for sale without providing interested buyers with a veterinary report. Well wonder no more. […]
60 percent of the Everest crowd were under 26. 95 percent of the Auckland Trotting Club members are over 70. The person charged with bringing young ones to the trots has failed,. Courtney Mackinnon – the Fairy Princess – is by all reports a lovely young woman, but is surely overpaid at $25k a year […]
Three years ago Mufasa Metro ran 1.57.4 to beat the great Just Believe over 2190m at Maryborough. Later that year he ran 4th to the champion in the Inter-Dominion final. Four months later Mufasa Metro won the Scotch Notch, and at the end of 2023 he ran Just Believe to a length when finishing runner-up […]
I asked eleven people over the weekend who the favorite for the Cup was. Dr Harry was the only one to get it right.* No-one else but him knew who the topweight was, and how much they had to carry. Al Riffa is the answer to the first question. He can’t win it in our […]
Clinton ‘Squizzy’ Taylor is Australia’s greatest trainer. You only need to look at his strike rate this season to realize that. While Chris Waller is plodding along at 13.9%, Ciaron Maher meandering slowly at 11.2%, and even Brisbane’s dominant force Tony Gollan only finding success 20.6% of the time, Squizzy Taylor from Rockhampton is out […]
Fortunately no one was badly hurt in the fall below in the 1st at Gawler on Sunday. It looked pretty awful. There but for the grace of God we go.
It’s becoming painfully clear that the current National Rating System in Australian Harness Racing is absolutely crippling the future of our top-line juvenile pacers. When you get a genuinely talented young horse, instead of being able to enjoy and develop them through their four and five-year-old seasons and beyond, you’re almost forced into early retirement […]
Former Kiwi Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart hasn’t won a race in 19 starts since his victory in the 2023 NZ Derby and has suffered a few injury setbacks since, but after slashing third-up performance to finish third in the Group 1 Livamol Classic at Ellerslie over the Cox Plate distance of 2040m […]
Two years ago Goldman was one of the early favorites for the Melbourne Cup after having earnt a golden ticket into the race by winning the Roy Higgins in the Autumn. After finishing third last behind Without A Fight in the Caulfield Cup his Spring campaign in 2023 was aborted, and he never made it […]
