Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing Victoria must be reading our stories, for their “polite request” made last week for trainers to provide them with the access code to their security gate has now become an official Stewards direction. The reason for the change is, in our view, clearly because after reading the story we published earlier in the […]
The good news from the Ricky Vale yard is that Namazu’s surgery went as well as could be expected, and the big bloke is comfortable and well. If Namazu gets through the next fortnight of post-op recovery without any concerns he will be in the clear and soon will be picking straws of grass in […]
Tasmania Wayne Yole succeeds his son Benjamin as the State’s leading trainer, leading in twice as many winners as his nearest rival Tammy Langley, albeit with three times the number of runners. Rohan Hillier wins the drivers title by a street, with 89 winners from 341 drives at a strike rate of 26.1%. Tiarna Ford […]
Central Coast trackwork rider Gary Kramer has been suspended for 22 months after throwing a personal positive swab to banned illegal drugs after riding in trackwork at Port Macquarie in late September. The sentence may appear harsh, but its not given that this was the fifth time that Kramer has returned a positive to drugs. […]
The ridiculous recent trend of jockeys failing to ride their mounts out fully to the finish continued in the 3rd race at Eagle Farm yesterday, when Cody Collis dropped his hands on the well fancied Heartoni and cost it 3rd place. In a sure sign that the Stewards are getting mighty sick of the […]
The Stewards weren’t happy about Doug Hewitt’s drive on Mach Assassin in the 1st race at Albion Park last night. Neither were the punters who backed the horse from $17.00 into $7.50. Both had very good cause, for Hewitt’s steer was a shocker that cost Mach Assassin any chance of probably winning the race, and […]
It must just have been a fantasy. Someone better tell Frank.
Do you remember the horse Cracker Opie that we wrote about in a story last week? The one we said was driven as dead as a maggot? Well guess what? Today we found out why it had been hooked. Cracker Opie was being set for a $25 000 Maiden, and wouldn’t be eligible if he […]
Breaking news out of Rockhampton is that the QRIC have raided the stables of trainer Nick Walsh after one of his horses threw banned steroid Stanozolol in the trainer’s possession. Older readers might remember that drug, it’s the one that the cheating sprinter Ben Johnson was using when he ran 9.79 seconds for the 100m […]
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated – Mark Twain Namazu is not dead! Praise be for that. Trainer Ricky Vale and owner Pav Cheimrdinov have separately contacted us this morning to let us know that although their great galloper suffered a serious and career-ending injury during the race at Rockhampton yesterday, they are […]
