The Best Kind
Others can say things about Pat Duff better than me. So I will just add three lines. Our Cavalier was his best horse. Pat was a man who did things for others. And that’s the best kind.
Random Thoughts About the Ladbrokes Ultimate Driver Series
The Field Yannick Gingras (Bain/Summit) Dexter Dunn (Ladbrokes) Kate Gath (Gath Racing) Nathan Dawson (First Over Crush) Angus Garrard (Garrards) Bjorn Goop (Tumby Park) Carter Dalgety (N40/Boys Get Paid) Gary Hall Jr (Gloucester Park) Brad Hewitt (Triple Play) VACANT (Unharnessed Hawks) Random thoughts. Angus Garrard’s family have purchased his place in the field by buying […]
Somehow I Think the WA Stewards Got This Very Wrong
Unless we are all seeing things, the WA Stewards got this wrong. Our Sandy Shore (drawn 1 on the front row) didn’t gallop as the start was effected in the Mares Classic on Friday night. She galloped about 10 to 20 meters before the gates released. Given that horse drawn on the inside of the […]
Urine sample match triggers trots drug-testing scandal
By Chris Barrett November 24, 2024 — 5.00am Harness racing is embroiled in a drug-testing scandal after two up-and-coming drivers from Sydney submitted urine samples that were found with all but mathematical certainty to have come from the same person. In a bombshell case like few others in Australian sport and racing, Jack Brown, 20, […]
Damn Those Jockeys Who Drop Their Hands
Here we go again. Another jockey decides to knock off early and cost his mount’s owners money. Keep you eye on the horse in the lime and two tones of blue on the fence behind the leading pack. Watch rider Corey Bayliss decide about 30m before the finish that he is tired of riding in […]
The Midnight Caller Clears the Fractious Favorite to Run – For About 100m
There is a bit more behind the poor performance of Hold My Halo at Atherton yesterday than meets the eye by reading the official Stewards Report, Hold My Halo wasn’t just fractious in the gates, he went berko, rearing and throwing jockey Denicious Smith out the back. The horse was unloaded from the barriers to […]
John Livingstone Shows Jason Grimson How Its Done
The dream team are back – Trainer John and driver Brent Livingstone, aka Hot And Dangerous (Owner Clint’s the And) Who needs Jason Grimson and his steroid pumped muscles and tatts, when you can have Johnny Livingstone and his coke bottle glasses instead? Livingstone showed the world how its done with ex-Grimson trained horses when […]
In Defence of Darren McCaulay
Dear Peter Profit Yes Perth race caller Darren McCaulay made a rare error and called the wrong horse over the line in the Railway. But he then did what David Fowler would never do… apologised. Profusely, about a dozen times. Apologised to connections, apologised to punters, and then, when he threw to the mounting yard, […]
Darren McCaulay Totally Ballses Up the Group 1 Railway Call
If you are going to make a mistake and call the wrong horse the winner, then the last race you would want to do it in is the biggest Group 1 of the year. You have to feel sorry for Darren McCaulay then don’t you? He got it all wrong in the Group 1 Railway […]
Can the Comeback Kid John Livingstone Go Where No Trainer Ever Has Gone Before? – Can He Get a Horse Going That Jason Grimson Previously Had? – We’ll Find Out Tonight at 6.25pm
The Wolf Signs Divided Open Pace at Albion Park doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a really really interesting little pace, mainly because it acts as a litmus test about whether any trainer can get a horse going again after Jason Grimson has had it and it has left his care. Many have tried and […]