Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
All of Robert Heathcote’s runners at Doomben today have been scratched by order of the Stewards. The word out of Eagle Farm is that a surprise raid on Heathcote’s stable by the Integrity Investigation Team located performance enhancing substance that should not have been there, and which under no circumstances are allowed to be used […]
I am not sure that Harness Racing Australia’s projections are correct in regard to raising the money to fund the Eureka. HRA are saying that the new differential fee/charge/levy or whatever you want to call it on shuttle and semen sires being implemented as of 1 September this year will raise between $900 000 and […]
A decade and a half ago Harness Racing New Zealand attempted to introduce a new $30 per season charge on harness racing owners to fund breeders and owner associations that only some owners and breeders belonged to and supported.. One major owner jacked up about it, and challenged it in the courts. He won. The […]
There is a delicious irony about the name of Australia’s new $2.1 million harness slot race Harness Racing Australia met with representatives of the breeders associations today to inform them of the funding mechanism for the new $2.1 million Eureka slot race. Ten slots will be sold at $100 000 apiece. Commercial sponsorship will bring […]
Brisbane trainer Wil Hulbert’s appeal against the $1000 fine he was issued for making and distributing an expletive laden diatribe abusing jockey Andrew Mallyon was always ambitious, and $1.10 to fail. If you took the shorts you got the money. QCAT decided that Wilbur’s defence that his crazed rant was just a chat between mates, […]
You wouldn’t talk to Jimmy like this would you Bob? Last week we presented you with Will Hulbert’s expletive laden rant about Andrew Mallyon that the trainer sent to stable owners after a race at Caloundra. This week we give you leading trainer Robert Heatcote’s spray to Mark Du Plessis after his ride on Stuttering […]
This one seems hard to believe, but at least three people who were at the track and heard it first hand just a couple of hours ago swear that it is absolutely true. As you will see in the video below, driver Tim Williams (black and white colours on the leaders back) has pushed off […]
We wrote earlier today about how NSW trainer Michael Muscat has just been given six years for returning a positive swab with a horse that started at long odds and ran a nondescript seventh at Bathurst. I bet he wished he lived in New Zealand. They reward bad behaviour over there. A trainer named Scott […]
Sally Snow is warned off from race tracks around Australia. We were never quite told why. Price manipulation was the reason. Snow was in charge of the TAB fixed price markets, and was playing them to the advantage of certain people who she was close to, and who her parents were too. Sally’s parents were […]
Brad Stewart appealed a 14 day suspension. It was a good idea at the time. He lost. The internal reviewer upped his spell to 19 days. Not that it matters. Stewart will seek an external review by QCAT and have a stay by tomorrow. Come time for his next overseas holiday he will withdraw the […]
