Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In what seems to be an extended season of racing licensees making appearances in court on various types of criminal charges, we look to Tasmania and find another one. No it’s not Ben Yole, even though it should be. Chainsaw is facing workplace health and safety charges at present, not criminal ones. That task is […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/BHC26122401.mp4 Have a look at this for an incredible win by Swayzee at Bathurst. And this is just the entree. How good is the main? I know we had a look at the contenders for the Australian Harness Horse of the Year Award last month after the NZ Cup, but watching Swayzee’s amazing track record […]
Archie, Very good decision from the Racing Appeals Panel. Mase Abe’s disqualification confirmed. To serve the full 16 months. Two questions though. Why was Abe not stood down when his betting activity was discovered or when the investigation commenced? Further, why were 3 bets on different days on different horses in races in which he […]
You hate to keep writing about a bloke too often, lest he starts telling people you’re picking on him, but when it comes t0 jockey Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day, well the bloke just invites the attention of a Far North QLD based racing writer doesn’t he? The latest is that Grubby seems to have enjoyed his […]
The owner of Chocmint are the most optimistic people in the world. They’d have to be, for who but a true believer in miracles would have nominated this horse to race at Cairns on Saturday? Chocmint is actually dead you see, He has been in the place where nobody wants to go – six feet […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/NRC08112404.mp4 Molly Ison copped a 4-week suspension for her drive her on Sinbinned in this race at Newcastle on the 8th of November. The Stewards found her guilty of a drive that was unacceptable. They reckoned she should have gone to the death instead of easing back to last to get in the line with […]
Having read the comments made by Justice Bowman in his decision to warn the punter Noah Brasch off for 10 years, I feel confident to say that jockeys Michael Poy and Lewis Germain are looking at very long stints out of racing when their matters come to sentencing. They might even get life, Poy particularly, […]
South Australian trot trainer Aaron Bain hasn’t had any of his stable horses start in a race since the 30th of November. Usually Bain has multiple runners every week, often 2 or 3 times a week. But in the last 3 and 1/2 weeks he has had none. Why not? It’s a mystery to us. […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPC20122411.mp4 The WA Stewards said this was a fair start. It was an important call, because the galloper knocked 3 horses out of the race. They were wrong. Watch it slowed down below. That horse was galloping before the starter said go. It should have called off by the starter, or declared a no-race. Instead […]
Poor Travis Harrison, the kid on our left. He never made it into the senior riding ranks, losing his life at the age of just 18 in a car accident on the way home from an apprentice jockey mate’s birthday party. The other kid in the picture – Travis’s cousin – has achieved enough in […]
