Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Paul Brian Dobson was until recently the Treasurer of the Victorian Harness Racing Club. At the time that Mr Dobson held the position he put forward a proposal to his board that half a million dollars of the club’s funds be placed under the management of a company referred to in the minutes of the […]
That’s Fred Crews with Yannick Gringas, one of the greatest harness racing drivers that the world has ever seen. This Fred Crews resignation letter from the board of the VHRC. It succinctly sets out the issues, and Fred’s concerns about the financial management of the club. These concerns appear quite reasonable to me. But then […]
A pacer named Whistle On By drawn the pole was backed from $4.40 into $2.90 in the first at Globe Derby yesterday. Given that it hadn’t won in it’s past 27 starts, and had only won 2 from 34 in its lifetime, many wondered why. They don’t anymore. Whistle on By won. His winning time […]
I do believe that we have mentioned the police officer cum trot trainer ‘Smoking’ Joe Connolly’s name on this website before, usually in relation to horses that are backed and suddenly improve their form quite rapidly to win these said races. Smoking Joe doesn’t miss much in these scenarios, so when I noticed a horse […]
Racing Queensland has transferred its second meeting in a week to the poly track at the Sunshine Coast. As it was in the first episode of Synth Mania, there have already been mass scratchings. Come 7.00am this morning there will be many more. Anyone who watches international racing regularly will know that when it comes […]
‘Positive’ Jason Bonnington turned up to the show looking as if he had slept the day on a bus stop. He was supposed to do an expert analysis of the Cup after the draw, but was waving and raving so much that Adam Hamilton sent him to the sheds for an early shower the second […]
The Victorian Harness Racing Club is a financial disaster. There is no other way to put it. This club’s financial management is atrocious, and it stinks. These are the VHRC’s bottom line results for the past 2 years: 2019 – LOSS – $101 845.93 2020 – LOSS – $275 821.89 That’s about $388 000. It’s […]
Our story the other day about Peter V’Landys leaving Racing NSW in the coming months has attracted a lot of chatter, and a bit more mail too. PVL is definitely leaving racing they say. But the successor appears to be chap named Graham Hinton, who currently holds the position of Chief Operating Officer at Racing […]
Harness racing is nothing like the gallops. Group races mean something on the turf, which is why NSW and Victoria are locked into war over the Group 1 status or otherwise of the Everest. There are no such problems over her at the trots. You can just buy a Group race any day of the […]
The QLD Stewards now led by Terry Bailey’s boy Wade Hadley rock up unannounced to a dog trainer’s place the other day. They demand that the trainer give them a blue cooler bag. It’s not drugs that they are after, because there are none in the bag. What they are after is a wallet that’s […]
