Darrel Graham is a very good harness racing trainer. He has won more races than most punters have had hot dinners, with some pretty good ones among them too including the Triads, Derbies and the Chariots of Fire. So you can see that the Dazzler is no slouch when it cones to teaching a pacer […]
Keith From QLD Fills the Breech
With the butterfly clipped at present I thought I’d share my thoughts on some recent events and touch on some upcoming. My thoughts on the eureka are the field was as good as they could possibly manage, with what statistics suggest are the greatest trainer in the country has paired up with in my opinion […]
Public Service Announcement
The author is bombed out on painkillers after having surgery yesterday, and was unable to write last night. Anything he would have written wouldn’t have made sense anyway due to the heavy duty nature of the drugs the doct0r gave him. We hope that he can write again today or tonight, if I can get […]
An Interesting Day in the QLD Racing Appeals Panel
Today we have the appearances of the final 2 players in the brutal 4 ring circus that fought/assaulted/got bashed in the Creek Bar at Albion Park on Black’s a Fake night. Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor is on at 9.30am. We haven’t quite seen what his role in the stink was on the videos played at the […]
The Massive Problem Facing the WA Trots – Or One of Them Anyway
Racing Queensland earns roughly$360 million and give about $296 million back to the 3 codes of the industry in the form of prizemoney, payments to riders and drivers, and club funding. RWAA earns circa $540 million and gives back just $203 million to the codes that earn it for them. The marked difference is in […]
The Sad State of NZ Harness Racing – Part 2
We wrote earlier about the dearth of Free For All class pacers in the North Island of New Zealand, and how it is indicative of a real problem within the sport. The problems seem to be here in the deep south of the South Island too, places like Invercargill where this Friday’s 8 race program […]
“What became obviously clear during Covid was that we were on the cliff’s edge because we had no assets,” said ARLC chairman Peter V’landys. “If ever there is another crisis like Covid, we need to be better prepared. Having an asset base is crucial. It’s not a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have.” – PVL, speaking after […]
Speakers Ageing Badly
This is Curtis Pitt, the often missing, often pissed QLD speaker of the House. He is not travelling too well for a bloke who is only 46 is he? Pitt returned to his job today after almost 4 months of paid absentia. While he was away he said he had a back operation, and feels […]
John Manzelmann is the Usain Bolt of Yeppoon
Take a look at races 5 and 6 today at Yeppoon and you will immediately start to imagine that you are at the Tasmanian trots with Ben Yole. One trainer – John Manzelmann- had seven of the eight runners in the 5th, and six of the seven in the 6th. Without him there wouldn’t have […]
It’s Very Harsh on Willo if He Gets Turfed Off Giga Kick
"If Craig Williams is riding Giga Kick in the #TABEverest, I will dead-set swim to Argentina." 🇦🇷 Tune into The Trek To The Everest at 7.30pm AEST on Sky Thoroughbred Central. 👀 pic.twitter.com/C1jliiCfuv — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) September 12, 2023 This is hard to believe, but I reckon Ben Dorries mail comes straight from the […]