Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Australian Rules Football has only one Tony Lockett. They can have him. He’s a dogs man. Harness Racing knows the real truth. There’s only one Troy Williams. Troy – the Plugger of the trots – is a superstar. Before he moved into Plugger T’s tender loving care the pacer Therecanonlybeonesir couldn’t even get out of […]
Rule 198 is the most stupid rule in racing, for two reasons. The first is that the rule places the absolute onus on jockeys to have their mounts placed in the barrier stalls correctly, with no responsibility for checking them put on the starter or assistant starter at all. Why not? Surely these officials have […]
Young Angus Garrard is usually one of the cleanest drivers in the game, and one of the better ones too. Not on Tuesday he wasn’t though. Angus had a real off day. First of all he totally misjudged his drive on the odds on favourite Couldntmisafalcon in race 6, hooking it out and around from […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC16112107.mp4 John ‘the Russian’ Stariha (who is actually not, he’s Slovenian) has been driving trotters since I was born, which was a long time ago, and he was driving them before I ever became a twinkle in Mum and Dad’s eye too. Sadly he hasn’t improved much with experience, despite his undoubted enthusiasm and passion […]
I missed out on my turn to pay for dinner last time Sheila Laxon and Johnny Symons were up in the Douglas, and no it wasn’t deliberate, I got sick. I doubt it will matter too much after the plunge the perfect pair landed at Doomben yesterday. Symons doesn’t bet a lot, but when he […]
The striking feature of the final Inter Dominion rankings released yesterday is that Ride High still remains in the field, which is simply madness. They might as well have Cardigan Bay, Gammalite and Wondais Mate in too, for they are about as much chance of taking their place in the first heat as the nicknamed […]
A lot of people including myself were wondering why the hell former NSW harness racing Chief Steward Grant Adams resigned a few months ago to take up the lesser role of Deputy Chief with Harness Racing Victoria. It was announced at the time as being for family reasons, and no doubt it is, but the […]
The word on the street is that a prominent racehorse trainer who has received all the favours in the world is about to be forced to take his medicine. They say that the bloke who helped him cover up his crimes is too. Sean Carroll is the ORIC Commissioner in Victoria. I hear he is […]
This appears in todays Courier-Mail. ————————————————– Besieged RSPCA Queensland boss Darren Maier has told staff he is ‘okay’ and vowed to ‘stand up and defend’ the organisation against what he calls an ‘assault’ on its reputation. Mr Maier, Chief Executive, wrote to the RSPCA’s 400 employees on Tuesday following News Corp’s revelations of turmoil within the […]
Changes have been made to the rules around blood spinning in the harness racing industry. But Harness Racing New Zealand is refusing to go public with the revised rules. The process of blood spinning, also known as ACS or PRP, involves collecting blood from the horse using a needle, processing it in a laboratory, and […]
