Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is what you should do when a horse dies at the races. Take a post-mortem sample. Skellig Lass showed every sign of having bled to death. Just like the high class NZ 3YO Mexicana seemed for all the world to have died as a result of hitting its head on the ground. The poor […]
Watch this at full speed. Pick the shell with the pea under it. Go on. Have a go. Missed it didn’t you? Watch it a hundred times and you still will. That’s because you are looking at the wrong thing. It is a sleight of eye and hand. So is the Stewards report into Stephanie […]
On Saturday 4 December 2021, Luke McCarthy had his license to drive suspended for 7 days. Under the rules of harness racing, unless HRNSW or the Stewards deem otherwise at the time, the suspension commences from the moment that it was handed down. Luke McCarthy was ineligible to drive from that exact time on 4 […]
Luke McCarthy was charged with careless driving after causing interference to another runner in race 7 at Menangle on Saturday night. McCarthy pleaded guilty to the charge, and had his driving license suspended for 7 days. Under the rules of harness racing suspensions apply from when they are handed down, except if Harness Racing NSW […]
APG Gold have thrown the kitchen sink, the cat, the pool room, the spa and all the cars in the garage at next year’s yearling sale auctions, in a last ditch, all or nothing, desperate bid to stave off the invasion of the multi-national behemoth Nutrien who has walked out of nowhere and threatens to […]
A few weeks back we told you that Greg ‘Jingle’ Gangle – the CEO of the Wagga trots who had been imported from Canada to take up the role – had been working unvaccinated in breach of the Harness Racing NSW COVID-19 protocols, the NSW Govt Health Directives, and indeed the law. The CEO was […]
Wagga Harness Racing Club (WHRC) hope to be able to welcome chief executive Greg Gangle back to race days by the middle of next month. Gangle’s vaccination status has meant he has been unable to attend race meetings for more than a month, as per the state government and Harness Racing NSW’s rules. Gangle, who […]
The hot word on the street is that the Albion Park Harness Racing Club has abandoned it’s 1/3 share of the yearling sales company Australian Pacing Gold, tossing its share back into the ring and walking away without a cent by way of compensation. Our mail also says that Melton is on the brink of […]
This is the bloke you want to say g’day to at Menangle on Saturday night It was a big day out for young Lleyton Green at Newcastle this afternoon, with the kid driving a treble for his employers Dean and Kerry McDowell at the all up odd of $26.40 for your single gold coin. Not […]
The QRIC have denied a number of racing identities licenses in recent months on the amorphous and totally random grounds of ‘character’, most notably the State’s former leading training Ben Currie, but a whole host of others as well, each of whom the regulator – and seeming power unto itself – deem not to be […]
