Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie, Concerning the absurd scheduling of the race at 9.36 pm WST or 11.36 pm EST. What a bizarre decision. (Gloucester Park CEO) Michael Radley has been rabbiting on for ages about the necessity to leverage Eastern States turnover on Harness with early starts. In some instances, 4.00 o’clock starts during daylight savings in the […]
Written Scandal looked well-weighted in the fifth race at Canterbury, with the last start winner to carry only 59kg in the BM64 after apprentice Braith Nock’s two kilogram claim. Punters like Kingsley Bartholomew certainly thought so, for they backed the horse from $4.80 into $2.60 at the jump. There was something none of them knew […]
Barry Purdon is generally regarded as the best trot trainer in history. He has won more premierships than most people have had hot dinners, and won every race worth winning. What Purdon doesn’t know used to be not worth knowing. Not anymore. As good as he is, the Hall of Famer couldn’t get Its Electrifying […]
The disturbing news out of Auckland is that a convicted sex offender – who due to court issued suppression orders we shall refer to only as Offender X – is working for, and on the registered South Auckland training premises of, the largest harness racing operation in New Zealand. 10 Months Home Detention For Convicted […]
A number of readers have been curious about what ever happened to everyone’s favorite racehorse syndicator KO Thoroughbred Racing, so we thought that we’d give you an update. According to official sources complaints made against KO are currently the subject of an ASIC investigation. In these circumstances the QRIC is unable to take any action […]
Winston Peters poses with Stamina in Mongolia. By Stewart Sowman-Lund When NZ Racing Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters looked a gifted horse in the mouth he decided to call it Stamina – but it almost had a very different name. Peters was in Mongolia back in February – the first visit to the nation […]
We wrote earlier about Cran Dalgety’s star filly Beside Me returning a positive swab to Meloxicam after winning a race at Wyndham earlier in the year. Well it appears as usual that we were right, for although there is no published record of either Dalgety having been charged with an offence by Stewards, or of […]
28-year-old Queensland trainer Matt Elkins is in a fine vein of form this season, hitting winners at a strike rate of 19%, almost fifty percent higher than his career rate of 13%. One of the reason Elkins is winning all these races is his ability to get old horses running faster than they have in […]
The return to form yesterday at Marburg of veteran pacer Courageous Leo, who at 50-1 greeted the judge for the first time since he won a heat of the Nanango Show twelve months ago ago (he ran 2nd in the final), reminded us of an excellent article that gun trot writer Duane Ranger penned a […]
The old adage about always backing the rank outsider in small fields proved true again last night at Launceston when the $31.00 roughie A Dragon For Joe came from three back the fence on debut to win the feature 2yo race the KEITH STANLEY DEBUTANTE, defeating his three much better fancied rivals that started at […]
