Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There has been a lot of conjecture about Ben Currie’s place in racing in recent months and weeks. There always is. Is Currie a villain who is somehow training by remote control in clear and present sight? Is he just a husband and father working within the rules to provide for his wife and kids? […]
We told you earlier this week that the latest Alligator Blood inquiry wouldn’t be the last, and that you could never write off Alligator Al’s capacity to find new and innovative ways to try and get his prizemoney and his way. The bloke is brilliantly intelligent but half mad, which anyone with an IQ like […]
So Pauline says that violence is an understandable reaction to stress about the rising cost of living and it causing you to be broke, and that it’s a shared problem and a two way street. Is she insane? Must be I reckon. I’m a gambler, and as such given the ebbs and flows of punt […]
Leading QLD racing writer John ‘Lucky’ Lingard asks this week on his letsgohorseracing.com.au website the question below that many have been posing about jockeys wives (or partners) being tipsters. The answer is that Gai Waterhouse proved in her landmark cases in the late 80’s/early 90’s against being refused a license because her husband Robbie was […]
Story by Stephen Drill: Courier-Mail, 22/7/26 Gillon McLachlan’s Tabcorp has been fined for sending 217,000 emails and text messages to gamblers who had asked to be blocked from their marketing. It’s the latest blow to the company, which is already under investigation over its processes surrounding money laundering and terrorism finance laws. Tabcorp’s share price […]
Story by Robert Craddock and Iwan Jones: Courier Mail, 22/7/26 A talented harness racing driver swears he will never return to Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley nightclub district after an alleged random assault left him unconscious for five hours. Nathan Rothwell, 23, of Mount Hallen in the Brisbane Valley, was allegedly coward-punched outside the Hey Chicka! nightclub […]
I was a strident critic of John Dumesny during his reign as HRNSW CEO. Some of my criticism deserved, some of it not. But whichever way the dice landed, it is impossible to argue with his appointment as Chairman of Harness Racing Australia. especially when I tipped him a while back as the man for […]
We have written repeatedly about how trot trainer Paul Tonkin was dealt a massive injustice by Harness Racing NSW Stewards when the honored member of the community who had saved people’s lives through his work was disqualified for 18 months and vilified as a drug cheat, merely because one of his horses threw a positive […]
It has been reported in the Sydney Morning Herald that certain officials of Harness Racing NSW have launched defamation action against the Rupert Murdoch owned press, and in particular one of its award winning journalists, over a series of stories that he wrote and they published, about matters related to positive swabs to a substance […]
In late May this year Hunter Valley trot trainer Brendon Flaherty was handed down a two and half year year disqualification after his mare Gisselle threw a positive swab to methamphetamine. Flaherty was a first time offender who pleaded guilty to a presentation charge at the earliest opportunity. Yesterday another Hunter Valley horseperson Grace Panella […]
