Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer Mark Currie pulled off the biggest plunge anywhere in Australia yesterday when his horse Tavs won race 3 at Eagle Farm. The money came for him early and came hard, and it kept coming all the way until the starter let them go. $19.00 into $4.20 Tavs was backed, and the way the race […]
Some things are so shocking that you close your eyes and wish with all your might that they weren’t true. The sudden death of Greg Sugars is one of them. A young, fit man at the top of his game professionally, cruelly cut down in his prime. A son, husband and brother stolen by fate […]
We received the news this week that Harness Racing South Australia CEO Dean Elliott has resigned to go and work for Ladbrokes, in a role much better suited to his skill set than being the number one man. Not everyone is cut out to captain the A-Grade team, so you can’t hold that against the […]
The Auckland Trotting Club is more than $80 million in debt that it doesn’t have the money to pay. Its only way out is to sell the farm before the bank sells it for them. Club members were promised a holy grail, an unsolicited $100 million from a Chinese developer if the club sold the […]
Nullarbor winner Gary Hall Jr, a great driver Cameron Hart sure is a slow learner. He made the same mistake twice, and it cost Swayzee the Nullarbor. We showed you Swayzee’s vulnerability a few weeks ago after he was run down from in front at Menangle. On that night he ran his second quarter in […]
Cameron Hart (left) with Swayzee’s trainer Jumpin’ Jason Grimson Swayzee suffered a shock defeat at Menangle last night, going down to Max Delight at odds of $1.10 after appearing to have every possible chance. Did he have every chance though, or was his loss directly attributable to driver error? Swayzee had raced four times over […]
Australia’s favorite on-course punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley – known to his friends as Wok – is the last of the diehards whose days are spent turning up to the track to chase the ponies and trying to turn a quid. Baldy is seen at racecourses all up and down the eastern seaboard, from Victoria to […]
It’s a most intriguing race the Nullarbor, on so many levels, one of the most important of which is the start. Most people have Mighty Ronaldo and Waverider coming out hard off the gate looking for the front, and Minstrel going with them and then crossing to the front, all in the first two or […]
A 23-year-old licensed harness racing participant from Tasmania was arrested at Sydney airport on the weekend after being discovered with more than $90 000 in cash concealed upon their person. The participant, who is a member of a long established harness racing family that is well-known on both sides of the Bass Strait, was detained […]
Driver Leonard Cain (pictured) should be charged with an unacceptable drive on Lostandfound in the last race at Redcliffe tonight and given stiff time. Lostandfound was the heavily backed $1.35 favorite for the race, and was given no chance at all of winning by Cain. He took it off the arm fast, but not quite […]
