Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Early last year Harness Racing NSW issued this author with a legal letter in response to an article we wrote about what we perceived at the time to be vulnerabilities in the integrity of it’s swabbing procedures. In the legal letter HRNSW’s CEO Peter Buckman laid out details of how the integrity officials of the […]
To the surprise of no-one QLD reinswoman Jordan Topping has failed in her appeal against a 4-week suspension for driving the pacer Altana Blue unacceptably at Marburg on the 13th of April. We won’t bore you with a blow by blow description of the Racing Appeals Panel’s decision because anyone could see that Topping was […]
Call me old fashioned, but I – like most Stewards around the world – believe that a rigorous pre-race swabbing regime is the bedrock of drug free racing. This reality may be unpalatable to the idealists, but if they know you are not going to take samples that would detect spiked TCO2 levels then some […]
Remember our article yesterday about the winner who lost, the bloke who had $2500 on a dead-heat winner at the Bunbury trots and was paid a dividend almost $500 less than his stake? Well some stories have happy endings. Yesterday afternoon, some hours after our article was published, Betr contacted the punter and offered to […]
Wayne and Samantha Hill (pictured above) https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC28042510.mp4 Trainer Samantha Hill had two runners in race 9 at Globe Derby yesterday. Hill drove the 2nd favorite Alleyes, her husband Wayne Hill drove the favorite Twixten. When the field settled early Twixten landed in the 1-1 on the back of Gaita Pullicino’s horse Ima Destroyer, with Alleyes […]
A few weeks ago we wrote a story questioning the QLD Stewards approach to allowing riders who incur multiple careless riding penalties to serve their penalties at the same time (concurrently) rather than serving their suspensions one after the other (cumulatively). In the story – which was about Kyle Wilson-Taylor being allowed to serve two […]
Goodzolphin Racing isn’t having a lot of luck lately. First former trainer and shareholder of the operation Aaron Goadsby got sent out for three months after one of the stable’s pacers threw a positive swab to Bute. Next Goadsby got warned off until he handed over his business phones to Stewards upon demand during his […]
There was a fall in race 6 at Townsville yesterday in which Lacey Morrison fell and injured her ankle., ruling her out for the rest of the card. Lacey was otherwise okay. The Stewards inquired into the fall and found that no rider/s were to blame for L. Morrison going down. We’d love to agree […]
We witnessed something extraordinary at Alexandra Park on Friday night. The Great Northern Derby, which has been run over 2700m for the past half a century, was run over 2600m instead. It wasn’t supposed to – 2700m was the scheduled distance – but someone stuffed up. As the mobile reached the release point it just […]
As you just read, Wayne Yole – father of the disqualified trainer Ben – has been issued with a notice requiring him to show cause why he should be allowed to continue to home, stable or train horses from the Sidmouth property formerly occupied by his son. The notice – which Wayne Yole claims lacks […]
