Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is not a real good look for harness racing in NSW is it? Horses trained by the number two and three trainers on the State premiership ladder Kerry Ann Morris and Amanda Jennifer Turnbull have both thrown positive swabs after winning races. A horse trained by Paul Russo – who only still holds a […]
you The QRIC have reacted admirably to the embarrassing balls up by their Stewards at the Townsville greyhounds on Tuesday night. Well sort of anyway. No, not really. They’ve just made it worse. QRIC Chief Greyhound Steward Alex Kitching has front footed the issue by saying an investigation has been launched into the Rake Affair, […]
The great rake debacle in Townsville last night wasn’t an accident, it was negligence on the part of the paid QRIC officials who were in charge of the meeting. What happened next when the Stewards swept the gross error under the carpet and declared the rake a race was something worse. There are so many […]
The horse is at the heart of everything we do in South Australian thoroughbred racing and it always has been. The welfare of our participants – our animals and our people – is an absolute priority Racing South Australia, Thorough Care Animal welfare is Racing SA’s absolute priority. Second only to trainers smoking a dart […]
Ben Yole (pictured) had 30 of the 91 starters that turned out to run in the nine races at last night’s Launceston harness race meeting. Yole finished the evening with a grand total of 1 winner, 3 seconds, and a third. And this is the bloke they say is Tassie’s premier trainer. David Hayes had […]
Ben Yole, the so-called premier trot trainer in Tasmania, presented 40 of the 61 runners at the Devonport meeting last night. He didn’t win a single race. Yole is a great trainer isn’t he? This is how he went. Race 7 Nine of the ten starters. He missed. Race 6 Eight out the ten. Missed. […]
Well didn’t Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor have a day and a half out at Menangle today? First up he cuts across on a diagonal line out of the start in the 3rd race and flattens Sean Grayling and his horse cold, and gets away with because he puts on a good show of trying to pull […]
Last night at Hobart trainer Ben Yole turned out 33 starters in just 4 races. He had 9 of 11 in the first race, 8 of 11 in the second, 6 of 12 in the third, and 10 of 12 in the fourth. Despite this huge numerical advantage, Yole won just two races, which only […]
I would like to make a bet with you. The bet is that the pacer Watchmylips, which got beaten almost 100 metres last Saturday at Melton but mysteriously didn’t get stood down, won’t be going to Tasmania for a spell at all. My bet is that the pacer with a clear problem will be going […]
Copy That takes the best pacers in New Zealand to town Lincoln Farms’ star pacer Copy That has been officially invited to compete in the inaugural A$250,000 Rising Sun in Brisbane in July. Owner Merv Butterworth and trainer Ray Green signalled earlier in the week their intention to aim at the July 10 feature and […]
