Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Where do you find the most hidden treasure? Under the sea. What’s the sea made of? Water. Where was the young harness racing participant going with the $92 grand she had hidden in her bra and undies? West. What’s out west? A trot track. Is there any water there? Yes. What else is there? Hay, […]
Gary Hall Jr treated us to a masterclass on Mister Smartee last week in the Nullarbor, and last night in the Group 1 Fremantle Cup with the same horse he did it again. Hall drove Mister Smartee hard up the inside at the start from his inside of the backrow draw after Kate Gath fired […]
Trainer David Moran cost Captain Hammerhead’s connections a Shepparton Cup and a $28 500 winners cheque after he was found to have hocked the horse to victory and it was disqualified from the race. Moran quickly made it up to the connections and saved Harness Racing NSW a half million dollar bonus cheque when two […]
The AI driven race caller of the future, working out of a data studio. He sort of looks like a young D. Fowler too. The move this week by Tabcorp/Sky to slash the number of race callers without putting any new ones on says three things to us. One is that Gillon McLachlan’s public shine […]
The extraordinary decision by Tabcorp/Sky to make Josh Fleming redundant yet retain David Fowler has sparked controversy among viewers from across the nation, with most of the commentators on the issue expressing a preference for one caller or the other, and the majority favoring Josh Fleming. Which one of the pair is the better caller […]
David Fowler is the principal thoroughbred caller for Radio TAB. David, who is a keen form student and punter, has enjoyed a lifetime involvement in the racing media. His personal blog, ‘My Call’, appears exclusively on Horse Racing Only. https://horseracingonly.com.au/racing-article.aspx?id=4409 An intriguing offshoot from the spectre of Covid-19 has been the concept which can be […]
The suspect race at Globe Derby on Monday wasn’t Wayne and Samantha Hill’s first team driving rodeo. They pulled another one at the same track 9 days before. In this one Mr Hill drove the $3.50 shot Fly The Banner, drawn barrier 5, and Mrs Hill drove Alive And Free, which was $4.80 in the […]
Early last year Harness Racing NSW issued this author with a legal letter in response to an article we wrote about what we perceived at the time to be vulnerabilities in the integrity of it’s swabbing procedures. In the legal letter HRNSW’s CEO Peter Buckman laid out details of how the integrity officials of the […]
To the surprise of no-one QLD reinswoman Jordan Topping has failed in her appeal against a 4-week suspension for driving the pacer Altana Blue unacceptably at Marburg on the 13th of April. We won’t bore you with a blow by blow description of the Racing Appeals Panel’s decision because anyone could see that Topping was […]
Call me old fashioned, but I – like most Stewards around the world – believe that a rigorous pre-race swabbing regime is the bedrock of drug free racing. This reality may be unpalatable to the idealists, but if they know you are not going to take samples that would detect spiked TCO2 levels then some […]
