Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Some people in racing don’t seem to want to help themselves. Take for example these two riders photographed recently working at the Callaghan Park track in Rockhampton. Trackwork riders are supposed to wear high-vis vests so that they can be easily seen by others in the pre-dawn darkness. The rider pictured – – understood to […]
Some changes may have to be made to field for the Tasmanian BOTRA Novice Drivers Series, given recent turns of events. Things never seem to go right for Tassie harness racing. As the Scottish poet Robert Burns famously told us, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley. This is what happens […]
Central QLD stable hand (or trackwork rider, there appears to be some confusion as to which) Chris Wearne’s appeal against his 16 month disqualification for animal cruelty rule breach offences was heard yesterday by the QLD Racing Appeals Panel sans its leader Justice Kerry O’Brien, who is presumably enjoying an Easter break. The hearing was […]
Everyone’s favorite unregistered Kiwi trot syndicator Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald (pictured at top) is up to his old hyper-inflation of shares trick again. The Canary recently bought a moderately performed tried 6-year-old pacer named Star Magic for $8500 from an online Gavelhouse auction. He is selling shares in Star Magic for $1150 per 5 percent, […]
The race before the Nullarbor on Friday night is just as interesting as the main event is, and has the potential to be as exciting too. Race 9 the DOWNLOAD THE APP 3YO CADECEUS CLUB CLASSIC PRELUDE NO.3 features the two best 3-year-old pacers in WA, but in this writer’s considered view two of the […]
There are two racing appeals being heard by the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this week. The first is the appeal of gallops stablehand Chris Wearne against a 16 month disqualification handed to him for animal cruelty offence. Wearne must have some chance of getting his penalty reduced, particularly given the decision in the Tom Smith […]
The Nullarbor field is out, and the betting market has been turned upside down by the draw. Swayzee, who was $1.70 on Ladbrokes this morning before gate numbers were pulled from the barrel, has blown out the door to $3.00 after drawing the inside of the second row on the tight half mile Gloucester Park […]
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 […]
