Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Saturday night’s Shepparton Cup is not the clash of the Titans that it was talked up to be, but gee it’s going to be a good race. Leap to Fame v Kingman. Forget the rest. Kingman is drawn 1, Larry is two outside him in 3. The nation’s pre-eminent trot writer Adman Hamilton wrote during […]
The word out of the land of the J0hns brothers is that a horse trained by popular young Hunter Valley trot trainer Grace Panella has thrown a positive to methamphetamine, aka ice. It’s a real shame, because young Grace is not known to be a drug user, but obviously someone who has touched the horse […]
Racing NSW’s Integrity Department is urging all industry participants to exercise caution if approached by an individual seeking retired racehorses who is identified as: Name: Katherine Brown Status: Listed on the Racing NSW Excluded List Racing NSW has been made aware that Katherine Brown is known to use the following aliases: • Kat Bromac • Katie McKenzie […]
The case of NSW harness racing trainer Michael Osborn is an unusual one. Osborn’s horse Reasonably Sweet threw a positive swab after win at Tamworth to, of all things, nicotine. Now I have never heard of a horse being doped with nicotine before, and to give one it in the volume required to improve performance […]
Archie I think you are barking up the wrong tree about Dr Alan McGregor. I dealt with him for a period of 20 years, prior to accepting that my inability to comprehend the basics of chemistry whilst at university and my concern for my horses welfare left me no choice but to hand in my […]
Until a month ago the fastest time that Still Rollin had ever run a mile in was 1.52.0. Then he went to Jason Grimson. And on Saturday night he went 1.49.7. The fastest Grant Dixon could get Demon Blue to go was 1.51.9, which was in defeat. It won in 1.51.7 on the weekend, doing […]
Wow, has it really been 30 years? It seems like yesterday. You know I love you. I always will. Happy anniversary baby. May there be many more. xxxx.
Shes a Warrawee is a pretty good horse who has won 7 of its 20 starts. But is she really as good as she looked in this win at Albion Park last night? Menangle is a 1.8 second faster track than Albion Park, the track records prove that. Shes a Warrawee had never run faster […]
They were all cheering after the last race at Nelson on Friday afternoon, and why wouldn’t they be, because the hot horse won. The Dunn stable had two in the race, Miki’s Courage which opened favorite and blew like a gale, and Candy Can which began in betting as the second fave and firmed harder […]
When is the last time you saw a trotter run the fastest last quarter mile of the night by 1.1 seconds, on a program featuring a Group 2 over 1720m? How about never? Until last night when Keayang Zahara did it running home in 26.9 seconds, the sort of times that square gaiters never go. […]
