Dead Pretty
Isn’t this little cemetery beautiful? It’s in the dead centre of Dili. Everybody’s dying to get in there. I won’t join the race. But it’s hard to argue with them isn’t it? If you gotta be dead, you might as well do it pretty.
Ready. Aim. Fire – Miss
The word on the street is that the QRIC are blaming the acting Chief Steward D. Aurisch for leaking us information about the internal restructure going on within the walls. Former Commissioner Ross Barnett once blamed internal leaks from QRIC and from the QPS (QLD Police) for stories I wrote about the organisation under his […]
This is How You Do It
The NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club – Addington – made an operating loss of $808 000 last year, despite cutting costs by $4.3 million. Incoming revenue was the problem. It dropped by a quarter, or $6.5 million. The $1.2 million decline in race day revenue and the $3.4 million loss in catering revenue were a result […]
Save the NZ Harness Racing Hall of Fame Museum
On 19 December 1997 the Noel Taylor New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame Museum was officially opened at Alexandra Park by its benefactor, the late Noel Taylor. Mr Taylor, who was President of the Auckland Trotting Club from 1984-89, totally financed the 500 square metre building. Efforts to get a trotting museum up and running […]
Brad Willliamson is a Cheat Who Should Be Thrown Out of Harness Racing Head First
42.8! That’s ridiculous! A ridiculous lead time. That is the fastest for trotters by a furlong, and these are 2YO Fillies! Dan Milecki wasn’t wrong. Brad Williamson went mental in the Group 1 Breeders Crown 2YO fillies trot on the Kiwi Aroha Kenny (it means Love Kenny, which it’s driver didn’t). He took the favourite […]
Samantha Collett Should Be Hung Drawn and Quartered (In a Metaphorical Sense)
What the hell was Samantha Collett doing on She’s The Gift in the Mooloolaba Cup yesterday? She served it up like merry hell to the leader and favourite Without Revenge from whoa to go, but she was never really looking for the lead. Every time she got a sniffing of taking it she eased. Then […]
Captain Ravishing – the Second Best 3YO in Australia
Times don’t lie. Captain Ravishing is a better horse than Lochinvar Art. Artie sat outside Hurricane Harley when that horse broke the Melton track record on Breeders night exactly 2 years ago. Don’t worry that Artie and Harley were 4yo’s at the time, and the Captain only 3. You are forgetting the change of dates […]
Victorian Harness Racing’s Night of Shame – And They All Salute
Last night trainer Emma Stewart – whose real name is Clayton Tonkin – trained horses raced in 6 of the pacing races on the biggest age racing night of the Victorian harness racing year. Tonkin/Stewart won 5 won of them. He/they/her had 4 of the 12 starters in the $300 000 Group 1 2YO Fillies […]
It Started With a Latrell Try, It Finished With a Latrell Try
Andrew Voss summed it up beautifully. The Samoans tried their hearts out, but they weren’t good enough. In the era of Grant, Tedesco, Murray, Cleary, Munster, Mitchell and Fox, no side in the world is ever going to be. I reckon this Kangaroos team would beat the 2012 one of Smith, Gallen, Cronk, Thurston, Hodges, […]
Half Time Observations in the World Cup Final
Jarome Luai is playing the game of his life. He is doing it all for Samoa, but he is not getting any support, other than from To’o and Papa. Milford is the invisible man. This bloke is the most over-rated player in the world. He doesn’t have much future at the top level unless he […]