Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Due to IT issues caused by the author’s uselessness the site has been down for 48 hours. Now thanks to the genius of people who actually know something about computers and the kindness of friends we are back on the air. A huge thanks to them for getting us there. Apologies for the inconvenience, everything […]
Egodan was, until yesterday morning, a washed up veteran 10-year-old pacer who for the past 18 months had been seeing out the final days of his racing career in the back block town of Mildura, up near the NSW/Victoria border where the oranges grow and the green grass and the ice cold glass flow. In […]
We have written on numerous occasions about the extraordinary winning strike rate of horses owned by former Harness Racing NSW boss Rex Horne and his friend and sometime trainer Leon Jurd when they backed as if there is no tomorrow. In these stories we’ve also noted how rare it is for horses owned by the […]
The quest for the wagering dollar never stops. On Friday morning the body of popular jockey young lost jockey Chris Caserta was found in the Gold Coast surf. Just hours later the first race at Ipswich jumped, a field full of maiden gallopers ridden by grieving riders the same age or younger as their friend […]
That is a rather curious claim for the Treasurer of the Victorian Harness Racing Club to make, particularly given that it is made in a statutory context, that is that it is made by way of a declaration that is binding under law. It must of course be read in tandem with the declaration that […]
From: Trent Doughty <Trent.Doughty@kellypartnerswealth.com.au> Sent: Sunday, 7 February 2021 9:31 PM To: Paul Dobson <Paul.Dobson@kellypartners.com.au> Subject: Investment Portfolio Proposal – VHRC Victorian Harness Racing Club Dear Paul, Thank you for the opportunity to make a proposal to the Victorian Harness Racing Club on the ongoing wealth management of the VHRC investment portfolio. As you know, with RBA Cash rates […]
Lyn Noble is the wife of the disgraced former trainer Tom, the warned off for life owner/operator of the illegal unlicensed track at which wrongsters used to live bait, the one in the horrific Four Corners documentary. Tom and Lyn Noble profited from live baited blood, and became reasonably wealthy from it too. If they […]
Mark Billinger is a legend of South Australian harness racing. His whole family is. Dad Val fell in love with the trots as a kid driving a horse and cart around Adelaide delivering flowers. He became a hobby trainer and kept it up his whole life, even during the forty years he worked at the […]
