Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Western QLD racing identity Gary Peoples pictured) has been many things over his long career – bookmaker, Barcaldine Regional Councillor, former Mayor of Aramac (pop. 372), wagon driver, drover following in the footsteps of the bushranger Captain Starlight – but the one thing he hasn’t been in recent years is lucky at Birdsville. In fact […]
Cambridge as we know it is dead. The track still remains, but after this week’s votes to hand it and everything else except the unsecured debts over to Harness Racing New Zealand, the club that for so many years is gone, or survives as nothing but an asset-less shell anyway. Soon when the unsecured creditors […]
There are a lot of questions being asked about Blake Shinn’s ride on the beaten favorite Somethings Burnin’s in the second race at Sandown yesterday, and with very good reason to, because the jockey slaughtered it. This horse should have won by panels, and it was straight down to Shinn’s steer that it didn’t. Shinn […]
Archie Noticed while visiting Marburg (Monday) and AP (Tuesday) that starters John Peterson and Jason Suli are still nowhere to be seen. Two people in the mobile and on the standing start platform. One is K.Williams (long time member of the industry usually swab collector and other roles, and also steward Lisa Bahr, former driver. […]
Jockey Luke Tarrant was yesterday sentenced to 4 1/2 years jail after pleading guilty to three armed robberies on the Sunshine Coast last December and January. Tarrant, armed with a syringe presumably filled with his own blood, twice robbed the same takeaway store and on a separate occasion held up a 7/11, traumatizing the shop […]
Paul Fitzpatrick won seven straight NSW trot training premierships in the 2000’s, and has won multiple Group 1 races. He is no mug when it comes to the training caper. But today Jason Grimson made him look like one. Fitzpatrick had trained the pacer Lexus Lou throughout its 27 start career and won 3 races […]
Former star jockey turned wasted youth and wastrel Luke Tarrant’s day of reckoning arrives as faces sentence in the District Court this morning on armed robbery charges. Tarrant, who has presumably pleaded guilty, will appear via video link from jail, which is an ominous sign for his chances of seeing Christmas this year a free […]
This is the head on replay of the run down the home straight in race 2 at Townsville on Sunday. You have to watch it to understand the rest of the story. It’s short and quick. Ryan Wiggins – who only the day before had copped an 8 day suspension for careless riding in Cairns […]
Today’s quiz, brought to you by the QRIC Stewards. When questioned about the performance of his mount Ellis Beach, what did Aidan Holt actually say? Was it that Ellis Beach had a big night out at the casino and was still drunk The gelding’s girlfriend broke up with him this morning and he couldn’t run […]
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
