Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Rockhampton horse trainer Tom Smith has been in the news lately after he bashed and brutalized a young horse for half an hour while trying to force it to enter the on-track pool and swim, and thanks to being charged with the wrong offence got away with just a fine. He might not be so […]
Harness Racing Australia’s internal computer system HARVEY has been down since Monday, causing havoc with the compilation of fields and payment of prizemoney across the country, and particularly in NSW. HRNSW are not saying anything about the cause of the outage. It has posted three updates to the Harness Racing Australia website about repairing the […]
Pardon the profanity in the headline. It was a direct quote from Terry Bailey, said live on TV around Australia, New Zealand and no doubt a host of other nations across the globe. Oh dear. I’m not sure that it strictly meets the broadcasting standards, but it will make Terry the Saint a global superstar. […]
The Australian Turf Club members vote on the question of the proposed sale of Rosehill was already odds on to fail, despite the five-year free memberships and the $1000 worth of goodies a year bribe/inducement/incentive (choose one) that the desperately out of touch club directors are throwing at members to try and sway them to […]
Former Group 1 winning trainer Ben Smith has died. Smith, who has had well documented battles with substance abuse, is believed to have suffered a drug overdose. The trainer had a roller coaster ride in the sport, shooting to prominence through the deeds of his mare In Her Time before falling back to earth when […]
Last week we wrote about the bleak future faced by race callers and fans across the nation, with our prediction being that soon many non-metropolitan race meetings would be called from the studio, and then eventually replaced by non-human calls powered by Artificial Intelligence. Some people laughed at our vision of where Tabcorp CEO Gillon […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM09052503.mp4 The drive of Shane Young on Wonderful To Fly in the G3 WASBA Breeders Stakes at Gloucester Park on Friday night was very strange indeed. Young led on the fave from gate 1, but at the bell with two laps to go he meekly handed up the front to the second favorite Penny Black […]
Carter Dalgety wears his hair weird so no-one can see if he has a brain Weight stops trains they say, but I can stop weight. The Cooler one of my mates calls me, and perhaps he’s right, for yesterday I put the cool on Carter Dalgety well and truly. Readers will be aware that I […]
Archie Nothing “wrong” with Seymour buying the slot at a premium as selling the slot at a premium was one on the marketing tool used for the concept in the beginning, only I think it was intended for on the eve of the race, not for profit making on ballots for getting slots in the […]
