Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The word is that former QLD Senior Steward Neil Finnigan, currently in charge of harness racing integrity in Tasmania, has been appointed to the Chief Steward role in Queensland to replace David Farguharson, who was summarily dismissed a few months back for reasons that remain unknown. Finnigan’s return to the Sunshine State will be warmly […]
Champion greyhound trainer Ron Ball has today won his appeal against the Stewards decision to restart his 10-year-disqualification imposed during the live baiting scandal of the mid-2010’s. QRIC Stewards had previously determined that Ball had breached the terms of his DQ by attending the property of his partner and then licensed trainer Serena Lawrence in […]
Archie I’m not so sure about your assessment of the DH, LTF heat as a ripper, after all its head to tail not head to head…..at least at the barrier draw….. Be a very boring race if Luke is gifted the front and Grant just follows him around for 2680m…….I’d say LTF won’t be able […]
How utterly odd it is that none of Grant Dixon’s three runners in the Rising Sun got pre-race swabbed. Five of the twelve starters had samples taken from them, but not one of his. Two of the five three-year old’s in the race were tested but none of them were Dixon’s. I guess he is […]
Good Grief, If the the Wallabies displayed team work like Team Dixon, The Bledisloe Cup would be permanently screwed down in Australia. Well read Archie, well read, what a joke of a race. Grant off the peg line way before the Sprint Lane to enable the 3YO to wind up. Second question, was there anyone […]
Little do many people realise it, but this year’s ID25 heats carry bonus points for the horse that runs the fastest last quarter, half mile and mile. The horse that runs the fastest half mile in each heat gets 2 bonus points, and those that run the fastest last mile and quarter mile get 1 […]
Wasn’t it lovely to put the starting times for the Mareeba race on Saturday back one race for Alwyn Bailey, after the trainer rang through to tell them that the truck taking his six runners to the meeting had broken down. It may have been a kind gesture by the Stewards but it was a […]
It was third time lucky for trainer on Saturday for Ricky Vale and owner Pav Cheimardinov when courtesy of a lovely ride by the Uruguayan hoop Raul Silvera Olivera they lifted the Rockhampton Cup with Logan Street Lion, after failing twice in the past few years to win it with their grand now-retired galloper Namazu. […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM05072510.mp4 What the hell was Adam Sanderson doing with his drive on Oscar Bonavena in heat 1 of the ID25 Trotters Championship on Saturday night? Did he deliberately drive the second favorite dead? Or was it just the worst drive we have in an Inter Dominion trotters series since Brian Healy got stage fright and […]
The changes made to ID25 to turn it into a two rounds of heats only series has come in for quiet but extensive criticism, as has the dropping of the round of heats run over a mile. We share the criticism. The allure of the Inter Dominion has always been – with the exception of […]
