Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Everyone’s talking about Glen Boss’s announcement that he’s becoming a trot driver. “I want to win the Hunters Cup” Bossy told Adam Hamilton with a straight face, clearly ignorant of the fact that it’s called the Hunter Cup. Kate Gath played along too, perhaps a bit too far. Bossy was filmed driving one of her […]
Following the shock announcement that Ali Wade, the Director of Stewarding and Licensing at the QRIC, has been made redundant as part of a broom sweeping exercise by the new Commissioner Shane Gillard, it seems there may be further changes afoot at the top of the organisation. Rumours are that a certain senior executive with […]
Are the Harness Racing Victoria Stewards for real? A Kiwi pacer having its first start for Alex Ashwood rears and the start and falls, crashing heavily to the ground. The vet inspects the horse and declares it unfit to run. While he is removing the harness from the horse Ashwood – a coward with well […]
Friday night is Alexandra Park’s big night, the main metropolitan meeting of the week; the showcase if you will. That’s what makes this so bad. There are just six races on tonight’s card. Three are them are for trotters: one for maidens, one for horses that have won only 1 race, and the other for […]
I found this story on a really interesting website called Weekend Kings. They wrote it not me. I highly recommend taking a look at it, for there are some great stories there about racing. Mick Dittman was one of Australia’s most successful jockeys during his career, but the Queenslander always had a secret urge to […]
We told you yesterday the story about Melbourne Mick, and how Curly Seal’s bookmaking outfit BetBarn had ripped him off by not refunding his quaddie investment as required under the rules when his anchor leg runner was late scratched. Well it appears Curly or his managers read peterprofit.com, for yesterday morning shortly after publication of […]
We told you about McCrikey’s win in the 10th at the Addington trots on Friday night, the race in which clearly went inside the marker pegs, and the Stewards lodged a protest which the Racing Integrity Board (RIB) adjudicator dismissed. The published RIB decision has now been released, and in our view it highlights a […]
The word out of the Breakfast Creek bunker is that Chief Steward Chadwick’s boss Ali Wade – the high achieving woman who kicked from being an accounts clerk in Rotorua on minimum wages to a $172 000 pa executive job at the QRIC in the space of just 15 years – has been shown the […]
The company sponsoring the Wagga Cup is called CLEANAWAY, not CLEANWAY. I guess the new Canadian CEO is confused. It’s probably got something to with being an anti-vaxxer. That or the club’s withdrawal of refreshments for trainers and drivers on race days. Oh well, at least their won’t be much rubbish for the sponsors to […]
Race 3: Arnie & Rene Rideout Memorial Benchmark 50 Handicap – 1000 metres Prior to the declaration of correct weight, Stewards interviewed the starter and viewed the available patrol footage to ascertain whether any runner had obtained an unfair advantage at the start. After doing so, Stewards ascertained that the starter had effected the […]
