Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Further to our story about Luke McCarthy’s rumored move to the US, a knowledgeable reader wrote in to say the following: It’s a very big stretch to say that Dexter Dunn and the two McCarthy brothers aren’t in the top 50 drivers in the USA. Admittedly on their number of wins they aren’t, but on […]
I don’t think that either Cyclones Jasper or Kirrily are most North QLD trainers first eye of the needle rodeo. I suspect that for many of the QRIC stewards it is. Which makes it all the more ironic that they are telling North Queenslanders how to suck eggs during a cyclone. The next thing you […]
Not that many months ago Bailey Wheeler was the red hot gun Queensland apprentice, riding winners in town at the same sort of strike rate as the top senior jockeys in Brisbane. Wheeler was going so well that he still sits a close 2nd on the metro apprentices ladder behind Ceejay Graham, who has had […]
There is a harness racing game called Catch Driver. The promoter of the game and co creator/ harness participant in Canada established a fond relationship with an Aussie syndicate manager who’s girlfriend was also developing an app. The friendship evolved to include a trainer in Australia from Menangle. This person who promotes Catch Driver (a […]
Trainer David Waite’s recent run of success as the stand-in trainer for owner Rex Horne, following the former HRNSW and Club Menangle chairman’s first choice trainer Leon Jurd’s disqualification for drug cheating continued last night at Penrith when he recorded a rare double. That made Waite’s tally 8 wins for Jurd and 16 in total […]
There is no better illustration of the parlous state of north island New Zealand harness racing than the fields for the Auckland Trotting club race meeting at Alexandra Park tonight. There are 10 races on the program but only 71 horses entered to run. Only 3 of the 10 races have enough horses in the […]
https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSCairns/videos/899527905012439 We live just around the corner from the street in which this story is filmed. It’s paradise. Or it used to be at least. But now here we are watching an oft incommunicative Mayor with bling in his ear grinning and telling us that every time it rains we won’t have any water, and […]
Yesterday we predicted that the $540 000 in a fortnight mark up men KO Racing’s giveaway share ‘worth $1000.00s’ would be in one of its cheap used horse buys, and today we have been proven correct. The share is in the Bendigo maiden winner that we highlighted Celestial Harbour, which was purchased online by KO’s […]
If the rumors are right that Luke McCarthy is intending to take a crack at a new career driving in the USA after the Miracle Mile carnival, then he is setting himself a highly difficult but potentially lucrative path. Last year no Aussie driver – not Dexter Dunn, or either of McCarthy’s hitherto very successful […]
Caulonia Courage – name after a small village in Calabria that fought off the fearsome Turkish army during a siege in 1597 – was an average muddler from Mildura who had won 6 races from 47 starts until it recently left the stable of Vince Vallelonga and came to the barn of Seaton Grima, or […]
