Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s a funny wee country New Zealand, that’s for sure. A trot man of bought the little hand-made model bike in the picture recently at an op shop, because the curio piqued his interest. It piques mine too. Look at the handiwork that has gone in it. All the materials are recycled. Meticulous care has […]
Watch this. It’s Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson on the eventual winner. He’s the one I have circled above. Keep your eye on his right foot. See it? If you didn’t then watch it again. Grimson has hitched his sulky tight, and it twisting his foot so that it comes into contact with his horse, using its […]
We all read today about how the Ipswich race track has problems at the 1400m mark due to trees that no-one can see. Now we learn that the 1350 start is out of action as they perform remedial work on the chute. Races scheduled to be run over that distance have to be altered. So […]
The latest excuse from the Ipswich Turf Club for the appalling state of the track after a $30 million rebuild is that the trees at the 1400m mark are blocking the sun. Sadly there is just one problem with the proposition, and it is a rather biggish sort of one. There aren’t any trees on […]
Complacent was a good racehorse, but he has never been wanted much at stud. He stands for a service fee of just $4 000. Well bred Group 1 winning stallions don’t come much cheaper than that. His yearling sale averages are pretty low too. $105 000 is the most one has sold for, and that […]
It doesn’t matter what you think of Tony Mokbel, the law has to be applied equally to all otherwise it’s useless, and can be turned against you too. Even crims have rights, and they have to, like it or not. If they didn’t, then what if the cops decided you were a crim too? Don’t […]
Many pundits had written Copy That off as a Cup hope after his seemingly ordinary campaign in Victoria. They either don’t know how to read a race, or have no idea of patterns and form. The reigning champ blew out to $8.00. You beauty. I jumped on, just like had at the crazy $10.00 that […]
What a joke the Inglis Pink Bonus scheme is. It was designed to attract more female owners into racing, just like the Magic Millions Racing Women’s bonus was, but what it has turned out to be was entirely predictable from before it started. New women aren’t coming into racing. Their rich husbands or brothers or […]
Mick Guerin is generally regarded as the best harness racing broadcaster and commentator in what we used to call the Dominion. But even legends balls it up. Guerin declared that Copy That couldn’t win over 2200m last night at Auckland from the back mark of 55m. He said it would have to run around the […]
Some of the smartest people I know in harness racing got sucked in to the Tim Butt spiel about this French trotter HOLZARTE VEDAQUAIS that he was syndicating, and paid large sums of money to jump into the ownership. It just goes to prove that we are all chasing dreams. The horse is a cat. An […]
