One For the Punters
If you like a bet then this discussion on Wolfden about when prices go up and when you can get on is well worth a listen. The delay in when the TAB markets are being posted is a focus.
HRNZ Review into Young Guns Debacle Should Start With the Salient Questions
Just days after we highlighted the issue in a story published on this site, HRNZ have announced a review into how the conditions of the prestigious black type race the Group 3 IRT Young Guns Trotters Final were altered without a general notification to all participants. The secret alteration somehow became known to the connections […]
HRNZ launches Independent Review into Young Guns Final eligibility process
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has today announced an independent review arising from the circumstances of the IRT 2YO Young Guns Final Mobile Trot, Race 3, held at Alexandra Park on Saturday, 10 May 2025. The review will address questions and concerns raised, and make recommendations to HRNZ. This review follows industry discussion surrounding the […]
Did Kevin Weidenbach Lose Count of the Laps?
Take a look at race 8 at Globe Derby on Monday afternoon and keep your eye on Deadline, the horse in the death. Did its driver Kevin Weidenbach go for home a lap too early? It sure looked like it. The Stewards saw it differently. They said the horse choked down. Maybe it did, maybe […]
Jockey Hit With 12 Month Ban For Failing to Provide Urine Sample
In a clear message to licensees that you have to pee when the Stewards direct you to, Queensland jockey Shannon Apthorpe has been disqualified for 12 months after refusing to provide a urine sample when required at trackwork at Clifford Park in March. Apthorpe, who hasn’t ridden in a race since December last year, will […]
The Green Light Tapes – Part 7 – Dougie’s Doing it Tough, Mark’s Very Stressed, The Chairman Pushes the Colonel, and Matt the Wire Wearing Corrupt Steward Pulls a Model (Or So He Says)
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
Briana Butchers Sidstrepo
WA harness race driver Briana Edman is 21-years-old and has only been in the cart since November 2023, so perhaps we shouldn’t be too hard on her about her drive on the well supported Sidestrepo in race 5 at Gloucester Park last night. Harness racing is however a professional sport upon which millions of dollars […]
Unadvertised Changes to NZ Young Guns Series Conditions Poor Form on HRNZ’s Part
There are dark clouds of controversy hanging over the field selection procedures for the $45 625 Group 3 IRT Young Guns Trot Final, and quite rightly too. The Young Guns is a series, and like all series it is run with qualifying heats and a final. In this years series there were two heats run, […]
The BIG CON – The Rosehill Sale Vote is a Scam
This is the question ATC members are voting yes or no on: “That the sale of Rosehill Gardens Racecourse (Rosehill Gardens) to the Crown in the right of the State of New South Wales (State) or other entity nominated by the State (the Transaction) is approved, provided that: Rosehill is sold for $5 billion $1.9 […]
All is Not Shiny in Emerald
The word from the central west is that local trainers Glenda Bell and Trevor Williams have been banned from using the Emerald race track for a month, after a long simmering feud between the pair erupted to the surface, culminating an incident between the two involving behavior and/or words that the club deemed unacceptable. We […]