Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We told you a few weeks ago that well-known and much-liked SA businessman and harness racing identity Joe Carbone was in the ICU fighting for life after suffering a serious medical incident. Well Joe fought a great fight, but the good Lord who had tried to take him to the Pearly Gates track before this […]
It seems that not a week goes by without some sort of monumental stuff up by the QRIC, and yesterday was no exception at all. A horse named Bader was drawn barrier 5 in the first race on the main card at Doomben. Despite their being 3 starters on duty no-one had checked the starting […]
Queensland apprentice Jai Williams has a serious issue with his whip use that needs to be urgently corrected before he finds himself getting rubbed out of the game. Yesterday at the Gold Coast he recorded his 14 whip rule breach in the past 6 months, a remarkable bad feat given that he has had only […]
Remember that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day, where the same thing happens over and over again? The Breeders Crown meeting is Groundhog Day. Emma Stewart’s stable wins pretty much everything every year, and they did it again last night at Melton winning the rich finals of both the male and female two and three-year old […]
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Our least favourite lawsuit threatening NZ harness racing licensee Mark ‘Bones’ Jones apparently used to be able to drive horses capably, although in the past decade we have seen little evidence of that, with his record over the past 4 seasons being just 20 winner from 254 starts, similar stats to Bozo the Clown when […]
Phil Holden was born ad raised in Invercargill, a cold rugged town in the deep south island of New Zealand, where the early settlers were whalers and Scottish immigrants, and people to this day still roll their R’s. Holden completed a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing at the well-respected University of Otago in the mid […]
NSW and QLD both have a shortage of jockeys, which is a huge concern in particular for the Sunshine State where a ridiculous and utterly unsustainable number of races are run each weekend, and horses are regularly scratched every Saturday for want of a rider. So what’s the plan to fix it? In a state […]
The last at Gloucester Park last night was a 5 horse race for 2YO fillies. Trainer Colin Brown had two horses in the race, the $4.40 second favourite Exceptional Arma who is a smart filly with a redord of 9 wins from 15 starts and best time at GP of 1.56.8, and the $51.00 pop […]
No it’s not Grant Dixon we are talking about, surprisingly enough. Colt Thirty One and Leap To Fame’s killer has nothing on WA reinsman Shane Young. They are not even in the same league. Young part owns, trains and drives the brilliant Wonderful To Fly, who would quite possibly be the best of her sex […]
