Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack was found guilty of causing interference aboard Violet Stanford to her main rival Pinnie in the heat of the Vicbred Super Series 3YO Trotters Fillies semi-final at Geelong on Friday night, and outed for 7 days. The Stewards pinned Cracker for shifting out at the 400m causing interference to both Pinnie and […]
“Most of us have almost had enough to be honest. What was the point of everything we’ve done so far and all the complaints we’ve made. What was it all for?” – Tasmanian licensee Kent Rattray What was it all for? When hearing the news that Tasmanian trot trainer Ben Yole has been granted his […]
Jamie Kah has some big hurdles ahead to jump The news that Jamie Kah has been charged with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to secure the best possible placing aboard Let’sfacethemusic in the McNeil Stakes ten days ago should come as a surprise to no-one. Despite the litany of excuses that Kah […]
What happened in race 2 at Newcastle can be shown to you because out of consideration for the injured parties the replay has not been published, which is a decision that we agree with. We can tell you from the Stewards report that Zara Fitzpatrick’s drive Solar Express was checked while racing ungenerously and fell, […]
The word out of New Zealand is that Copy That hasn’t properly recovered from the injury that has kept him off the scene for the past year, and the racing career of Merv and Meg Butterworth’s great pacer is over, with an announcement set to be made in the coming week. Copy That had recently […]
Which racing chief is soon t0 become the next to go? Is the bloke starting to get used to being punted, after his wife won the first? The owner of which world’s richest pace winner is said to have got set at $71 in early markets for the Eureka? He’s said to have kept backing […]
Want to see something that should ring alarm bells? With the exception of Showsomejoy, who ran 5.8 seconds faster than its previous best winning time to take out race 1 in 1.53.8 off a soft sit on a slick pace, every single one of Emma Stewart’s eight other VicBred Super Series semi-final winners ran times […]
The Naomi Kerr trained Prioritise eased out in the market from $1.60 out to $3.40 in the 5th race at Port Pirie last night, which seemed odd for a pacer that had won its past three on end at the stronger class track in Mildura. It didn’t take long to find out why it blew […]
The Stewards at Prairie yesterday hauled jockey Shane McGovern into the room for a please explain about his failing to ride out Stop On Sophia (the horse in 2nd as the film rolls, in the green and red) fully to the finishing line in race three. McGovern quite truthfully explained that his saddle had slipped […]
Three cheers to the track staff at the Gold Coast who took over from the ‘guru of grass’ Nevesh Ramdhani. They’ve done a great job to get the turf track fixed and back up and firing. It played fair all day. The times were fast. Every horse had an even chance. No-one slipped or slid. […]
