Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Grubby Day appeal kicks off. Kerry O’Brien as usual chairs the panel. Diane Condon and Lindsay Hicks are the other two members of the panel. Darryl Griffiths is the Steward’s representative. He has some yank woman named Ballard assisting him. I assume she’s a lawyer. Grubby appears unrepresented. O’Brien tells Grubby to ask questions […]
On Thursday (Nov. 7), there will be no horse racing in France. Instead, representatives of both sports (trot/flat) will gather for a protest march in Paris. The reason is that the French government has announced plans to increase the totalisator tax. This will cost the sport up to 50 million euros per year, prompting harness […]
Despite suffering a $20 million decline in wagering revenue in the past year as part of a national trend, Peter V’Landys oft criticized micro-management of Racing NSW finances has steered the organization to record a bumper profit of $12.6 million for the 2023/24 financial year. And he’s done while increasing prizemoney by $36 million at […]
Harness Racing Victoria’s website thetrots.con.au hasn’t had individual sectional times for any races in the last 2 years available for over a week. HRV says that it is experiencing technical problems that its working on fixed, whatever that means. That it hasn’t fixed the problems yet is the sort of poor effort that we’ve come […]
Gee Grant Dixon’s second stringer Aroda was stiff not to get a starting spot in the NZ Trotting Cup. Some might say its karma coming back to bite owner and Albion Park Chairman Greg Mitchell for supporting his sex-offender CEO Scott Steele in court and returning him to his job, and that may well be […]
No-one can ever accuse the QRIC Stewards of being consistent. This was vividly illustrated on Melbourne Cup day when Five riders at five different Queensland tracks were pinched for failing to fully ride their mounts out to the finish line. Remarkably each received a different penalty for the exact same offence. How can that be? […]
Dear Peter Profit I want to share with you my thoughts and those of some of my long time mates about the recent shocking publicity surrounding the management of Albion Park trots. The other day I opened the Courier Mail and there large as life was a big picture of the previously stood down CEO […]
You couldn’t have scripted this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup (which is really a pace) any better if you’d tried. The will he or won’t he drama with Leap To Fame, the last minute entry of Swayzee onto the scene, the NZ Horse of the Year Merlin v the Australian Horse of the Year Larry, […]
Belle from Burnie has written in with her take on this year’s $450 000 WA Pacing Cup. As always its an intelligent assessment, and a very interesting read. PT = PINNY TIGER JJM – JUMPINGJACKMAC MS – MISTER SMARTEE JNR – GARY HALL JR, DRIVER OF MISTER SMARTEE TB – TENZING BROMAC CR – CAPTAIN […]
Declan Bates is taking his sacking as the rider of Pride Of Jenni by owner Tony Ottobre graciously, and is acting like the perfect gentleman about it all, but in my view its bullshit and utterly unfair. It was Ottobre who told the press that Jenni would be ridden more conservatively in the Cox Plate, […]
