Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see above is what appears on the TAB website and in their form guides for the feature race at Warrnambool on Tuesday. Ignore it, for its wrong in every respect. Major Share is not a 7-year-old, he is four. He is not by Sacred Falls out of Flighttime. Overshare is Major Share’s sire […]
Stood-down Albany Racing Club boss Mark Bayliss was yesterday fined after pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to gain a benefit for another by fraud. The target of the attempted fraud was Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA), the State’s principal racing authority. Mark Bayliss has reportedly agreed to resign from his position at […]
Ray Hadley has just announced that the State Govt has stepped in to block disgraced Albion Park CEO Scott Steele from returning to his role as leader of the Creek. Steele is terminated, effective immediately. The rumor is that on his recent soujurn to Addington he was casting around for a job. God help the […]
Trainer Paul Tonkin must be the most hard done by man in harness racing. He has just been hit with an 18 month disqualification by Harness Racing NSW Stewards after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the potent painkiller Tapentadol, a drug that he takes himself under prescription to treat chronic pain […]
Victorian gallops trainer Kane Harris has been suspended for six months by the Victorian Racing Tribunal after one of his horses threw a positive swab to dexamethasone. In was Harris’s fifth positive in 8 years, three of them for the same drug. Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid used to treat inflammation and pain. It has serious […]
Like many people, at first I felt a sense of letdown when the stars dropped out of ID24 Leap To Fame, Swayzee, Catch A Wave, Better Eclipse, all gone. What’s left? A bloody interesting Inter Dominion series is what. There are no dyed in the wool superstars in this year’s edition, but there are plenty […]
Archie This might be interesting. Ants (Anthony Butt) mentioned he’d just got a positive in NSW to something that he didn’t know what it was in one of the interviews/stories about the state of Vic harness racing but he wasn’t too worried about it though it obviously wasn’t good timing but not too bad as […]
Race 5: HYGAIN CLASS 3 PLATE 1000 M HEAD HONCHO – Began fairly then tightened for room between SO ODELIA and LAST LAUGH and lost ground. Travelled three-wide without cover throughout. Stewards questioned the Jockey Michael McDonald regarding his riding of HEAD HONCHO throughout the event. In explanation jockey McDonald stated that after the interference […]
Take a look at this ride by Micheal McDonald on the odds on favorite Head Honcho in the 5th at Townsville today. It’s the horse in the blue and white. McDonald flops it out of the gate last. He then drives it up to make ground, but instead of positioning it one off the fence […]
