Top 10 Trot Trainers by Strike Rate (100+ Starts)
53.40% CLAYTON TONKIN 40.60% AARON BAIN 38.67% EMMA STEWART 37.31% RYAN HYRHOREC 32.64% GARY HALL SR 30.72% MARGARET LEE 29.62% GREG AND SKYE BOND 27.10% JASON GRIMSON 26.00% SEATON GRIMA
Top 12 Gallops Trainers by Prizemoney
$51.7m CHRIS WALLER $51.5m CIARON MAHER $30.0m GAI WATERHOUSE-ADRIANBOTT $28.0m JAMES CUMMINGS $17.0m ANNABEL NEASHAM $16.6m HAYES BROTHERS $15.3m SAM AND ANTHONY FREEDMAN $14.7 BJORN BAKER $14.5m PETER MOODY0KATHERINE COLEMAN $13.3m PETER AND PAUL SNOWDEN $12.3m KRIS LEES $10.8m MICK PRICE-MICHAEL KENT JR
Was This the World’s Least Hardest Trier? – Or Just a Very Unlucky Horse?
The $2.40 favorite Margot’s Diamond is last on the fence as the film rolls, in the yellow and purple or red diamonds. When you see what happens next you’d have to wonder how hard jockey Matthew Bennett was trying to win or run a place. Either that or the horse was very unlucky. You be […]
Grub of the Day – Cambridge trainer charged with ‘inflicting undue suffering on a horse’
By Jo Lines-MacKenzie Waikato Times A Waikato thoroughbred trainer who has been accused of mistreating horses by hitting them in the face and flipping them onto the ground has been charged by the racing industry. John Malcolm of Cheltenham Stables in Cambridge is facing 12 charges laid by the Racing Integrity Board (RIB). Chief executive […]
APG National Mixed Sale a Gross Failure – And a Massive Marketing Flop
There is not much good that you can read into the results from the just concluded APG National Mixed Standardbred Sale. On almost every metric it was a gross failure. Clearance rates were atrocious, with only just over 1 in 6 lots being sold. That means that just under 5 in every 6 horses offered […]
APG National Mixed Sale – 5 Year Comparison
Sales Numbers (Sold/Lots) 2019 – 61/113 2020 – 98/193 2021 – 107/198 2022 – 79/205 2024 – 33/176 Sales Volume (Totals) 2019 – $422 450 2020 – $600 950 2021 – $688 900 2022 – $515 800 2024 – $190 650 2024 (Exc. top lot) – $100 650 Clearance Rates 2019 – 54.46% 2020 – […]
The QLD Stewards Inconsistency in Sentencing is Just Plain Wrong
On a day of penalties for careless riding at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, Michael Rodd received two suspensions, one of them 8 days for causing interference in race 2, and the other 12 days for causing interference in race 8. These were separate and distinct cases of careless riding, and the penalties were stand alone. […]
APG Winter Sale Result Summary
Lots offered – 176 Lots sold – 33 Clearance rate – 18.75% Gross volume – $190 650 Average price – $5 777 Average price (excluding top priced lot) – $3 145 Average price (excluding top 5 priced lots) – $1 916 Median price – $1 750 Top price – $90 000 Second top price – […]
Barossa Bill on the State of Australian Harness Racing
This is an opinion piece written by a long time harness racing participant and reader. The words are theirs, only the name has been changed to protect their identity. The views published below are Bill’s not our own, although we do agree with a number of them. Archie APG mixed sale results = 31 sold […]
Only in Tasmania
Tasracing’s allocation of its slot in the Eureka to last night’s Beautide winner Fighter Command is farcical. The horse may be bred in Tasmania and owned largely by Tasmanians, but it is trained in Victoria by a Victorian trainer and driven by a Victorian driver, and until last night it had never raced in Tassie […]