Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC01022104.mp4 Arco stepped out for her new owners for the first time last weekend – attracting the biggest crowd seen at the Gawler trials in many years. “It was fantastic. There would have been 100 members there watching her trial, including Lorraine Coombes, from Mildura, who got up at 4am to travel over and get […]
Stewards inquired into an incident reported by Cadet Steward Mr J Steele regarding an incident that he allegedly witnessed in the stabling area subsequent to race 7 involving Mr R Pullen, the trainer of GIPSY TREASURE, and Ms S Gangell, the driver of BORDER CROSS. After taking evidence from Mr Steele, Ms Gangell, Mr Pullen […]
I told you ten days ago that Steve Fletcher’s former commission agent turned NSW Deputy Chief Gallops Steward Wade ‘Lurch’ Birch was soon to be leaving that role to take up the job of top cop at the dogs. As always, our mail was delivered early and in a packet marked CORRECT. Yesterday the […]
The Apple Isle racing industry is in shock today following the news that the chief of the Office of Racing Integrity has been stood down from his role. Or it would be if anyone still had any confidence in the integrity of Tasmanian racing anyway, but after a series of blatant rigs, pulls, fixes, hooks […]
How did Belinda McCarthy, Narelle McCarthy and Craig Cross all get granted ‘A’ Class trainers licenses without having trained a single winner in the season before they were granted their top grade licenses? Do any of these three Cobbity-linked people really train horses? Whatever happened to Belinda and Luke McCarthy being called into HRNSW headquarters […]
This is race 4 on Saturday night at Globe Derby. It was the hottest race you’ve seen this year so far, and maybe ever. The plunge was on Ace’s Daughter. Frank Pullicino – the equally corrupt husband of the multiple times disqualified cheat Gaita, who is banned from holding a license in Victoria – trains […]
Ben Yole is untouchable in Tasmania. He gets done, the fields drop by a third. That means that the races do too. If the number of races drop, harness racing is rooted. That’s what the authorities believe. It is not true. No man is an island unto himself. Did Victorian racing end when Darren Weir […]
It seems that in Tasmania that there is one rule for Ben Yole, and another set of rules for the rest. There is a reason for that. This is a graph showing the number of starters per season the Ben Yole stable turned out each season from 2012 to 2020, compared to the number of […]
