Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Victorian County Crime and Appeals Court has today ruled that former harness racing trainer/driver has no case to answer on race fixing charges, and has set aside his previous conviction in penalty. In other words, Nathan Jack is innocent. Well sort of anyway. Nathan is not guilty to the criminal standard of beyond a […]
Poor Carly Frater. You can only imagine how she felt when she saw what she thought was the winning post, sat down and punched her mount out to victory, and then stood up triumphantly in the irons. Only to discover that it was a power pole, and that the real winning post was 50 metres […]
Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Alfred Lord Tennyson – Charge of the Light Brigade A very familiar name popped up in the ranks of the Stewards at Mackay yesterday. Tracey Pelling. The stand up comedian, ex-cop and former manager of the Integrity Investigation […]
Last week we wrote a story bagging the Bondi as joke. Yesterday Lease proved us right. This A.J. Cummings trained galloper ran third in the million dollar race named after a topless beach. At Randwick on Cup day he led in a 1600m BM68, and got run down by a horse whose sum total of […]
At the very outset I state that what follows is not a criticism of young driver Lucas Rando, or of his drive on True Confession. The kid drove it great. He is only a teenager, and can’t be expected to be either fully conversant with the rules yet, or bold enough to bowl into the […]
Not a real bad joint this Port Douglas is it? Verry Elllegant was very ordinary. If I were the connections I would get Damien Lane off quick smart and pay James McDonald whatever it costs to convince him to cop the 14 day quarantine period and come down to Melbourne to ride the mare in […]
What does this police raid have to do with yearlings sold to a buyer on tick at the Sydney APG yearling sales in 2020? Where are these yearlings now? Have they ever actually been paid for? Why are none of them registered as racehorses? Is a harness racing licensee somehow embroiled in the arrests? Do […]
If you are doing the NZ Trotting Cup form for next Tuesday, it is worth seeing the short video clip below. It’s a slow, slow motion replay of the start. The horse you are looking at it South Coast Arden, one of the favourites for the Cup. It is drawn the outside on your far […]
Well not many racing scribes put their stake firmly in the ground and declared that Incentivise could not win the Cup. In fact, I think we were the only ones. Tipped the $21 winner in our top three two we did. After a drought of 20 years between Might and Power and Rekindling, we’ve now […]
South Australian harness racing has become a lawless land, a modern day version of the American wild west. It is getting out of control, and needs to be stamped down on hard. I don’t think the current Stewards have it in them. Slaps with wet bus tickets just don’t do the job. The problem is that […]
