Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jockey Luke Tarrant was yesterday sentenced to 4 1/2 years jail after pleading guilty to three armed robberies on the Sunshine Coast last December and January. Tarrant, armed with a syringe presumably filled with his own blood, twice robbed the same takeaway store and on a separate occasion held up a 7/11, traumatizing the shop […]
Paul Fitzpatrick won seven straight NSW trot training premierships in the 2000’s, and has won multiple Group 1 races. He is no mug when it comes to the training caper. But today Jason Grimson made him look like one. Fitzpatrick had trained the pacer Lexus Lou throughout its 27 start career and won 3 races […]
Former star jockey turned wasted youth and wastrel Luke Tarrant’s day of reckoning arrives as faces sentence in the District Court this morning on armed robbery charges. Tarrant, who has presumably pleaded guilty, will appear via video link from jail, which is an ominous sign for his chances of seeing Christmas this year a free […]
This is the head on replay of the run down the home straight in race 2 at Townsville on Sunday. You have to watch it to understand the rest of the story. It’s short and quick. Ryan Wiggins – who only the day before had copped an 8 day suspension for careless riding in Cairns […]
Today’s quiz, brought to you by the QRIC Stewards. When questioned about the performance of his mount Ellis Beach, what did Aidan Holt actually say? Was it that Ellis Beach had a big night out at the casino and was still drunk The gelding’s girlfriend broke up with him this morning and he couldn’t run […]
Auckland harness racing can once again become a growth story – Brad Steele, CEO Auckland Trotting Club Former Harness Racing New Zealand CEO has kicked off the first month in his new job as CEO of the Auckland Trotting Club the same way he ended his last. By making fluffy, vacuous motherhood statements that promise the […]
Four other Jockey Club stipendiary stewards – Jamie Andrew Stier, Kam Shiu-bor, Tony Lam Tsun-hin and Martin Maxwell Knibbs – also testified that they did not question Fradd’s riding and believed he was only ‘settling the horse’ in the early stage of the race – www.scmp.com/article/397408/i-had-hold-horse-back-safety-says-fradd Oh dear. Martin Knibbs was once a senior racing […]
The great elephant in the room about the proposed Cambridge takeover by HRNZ is this question: What happens then? Project Stamina – the nation wide NZ Racing Review ordered by the Racing Minister, and conducted by an external consultancy group – has made a number of recommendations that directly impact both on Cambridge and on […]
What is happening? HRNZ is asking its member clubs to vote to take over the Cambridge Raceway and all of its assets. Why is it happening? Cambridge (under its various guises) is essentially broke. It owes $3 million in debts. $1.9 million of the debt is owed to HRNZ itself. The other $1.1 million is […]
It was interesting to see former jockey cum trainer Adrian Coome working behind the barriers at Callaghan Park, Rockhampton during the week, and even more fascinating to see former trainer Nick Walsh – the man who once boasted the best strike rate in the State before he was disqualified for 12 months for using the […]
