Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You’ve never seen this one before. Welcome to Port Pirie harness ladies and gentlemen pic.twitter.com/wy5OP9OTKS — Mark (@markpuntz) January 18, 2023 Watch this. It’s the Port Pirie trots yesterday. Keep your eyes on the outside arms of the mobile. Oh my goodness. Now watch it again below and keep your eyes on the outside arm. […]
The picture you see is an extract from page 15 of the beautifully (and expensively) bound 2021/22 Auckland Trotting Club Annual Report. Do you see anything wrong? I didn’t know that the trop drivers in the North Island drove double cart. When did that start? I didn’t realise that Zac Butcher, who only has a […]
This is the Gold Coast weather radar at 2.00am eastern standard time. Not a cloud in the sky or anywhere thereabouts. Beautiful. Now it’s all up to the track holding together. Will we get through today’s Magic Millions meeting before they retire the current course proper forever? Like us all, I hope so. May the […]
In a 1962 profile of the great horse Adios in Sports illustrated the stallion was describe thusly: “To his extreme admirers, however this 22 year patriarch is the mightiest father of all mammals past or present.” It adds two quotes from the great harness writer, student of bloodlines and of harness history, James C. Harrison: “I would throw in all […]
Update…MM Thurs Club advise “8mm at 5am this morning, gallop at 6am by Paul Hammersly with usual wet spots at 900 and 600, 350 was uniform. Heavy 9 with fine day forecast. With further inspection by Chief Steward at 4pm today we could expect some improvement, and if no further rain more activity improvement tomorrow. […]
Four days after the Magic Millions meeting was called off on Saturday due to the state of the track, the Gold Coast course is still a Heavy 8. So much for Brendan Parnell’s brilliant drying weather. That theory has worked like a dream. Or a nightmare, whichever one you pick. The rescheduled $10 million dollar […]
Tommy Berry was a licensed person who copped cash for tips, and breached mobile phone rules over 300 times. Berry also deceived the Stewards by concealing the WhatsApp messages that he sent to and received from the Butcher, messages that he knew were of interest to the stipes, and which if discovered would put him […]
One On the 23rd of March 2022 Berry tipped Butch a horse he was riding named Waterford to win the 3rd race at the midweek Warwick Farm meeting. Butch backed it to win $28 780, excluding any cash he might have had on it at the TAB. It won. Butch slung Berry $5 grand ($5000) […]
This is a message Berry sent to the Butcher. He is explaining how he won a race on a horse called Wairere Falls that he didn’t tip to Butch. Is Berry telling the truth to the mad punting. big slinging meat man? Who knows? Maybe he forgot to tip it, and is covering up his […]
Relevant Rules AR115(1)(b) (1) A jockey or apprentice jockey must not: (b) other than from his or her nominator, accept or agree to accept any money, gift or other consideration in connection with a horse in a race without the consent of the Stewards and his or her nominator AR218(4)(b) (4) Without the permission of […]
