Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are unsavory rumors floating out of the south-west of Queensland about the conduct of a prominent country trainer at a race meeting at Morven in September. The trainer is said to have misconducted themselves toward a young female apprentice while legging them up for a mount at the meeting, a matter that was reportedly […]
The NZ Racing Minister has announced that amendments to the Racing Act will be introduced to parliament this week to “enhance the long-term sustainability of New Zealand’s racing industry by making TAB NZ New Zealand’s sole provider for sports and race betting both on land and online”. “Growing competition from offshore online betting operators poses […]
Racing Minister Winston Peters has announced the introduction of legislation to amend the Racing Industry Act 2020 which will extend TAB NZ’s current land-based monopoly for sports and racing betting to online. The Racing Industry Act established TAB NZ for the purposes of funding the racing industry. It provides 90 percent of the racing industry’s […]
Hopple shorteners – are controlled by the driver and he/she may shorten the early length of stride the horse may take in the first strides from a standing start or mobile start to help eliminate the possibility of the horse going into a full stretch gallop and losing all chance. When the driver is content that […]
Archie, Gotta take a bit of deep dive into this…. 50 bets on races in Australia and international- plea of guilty- 3 months disqualified. Probably a bit heavy but small fish. Bets on races 3 races in which he rode…. Where were they? It’s not in the report. Were they are different days? If so, […]
The hardest job in harness racing this year is being a judge of the Australian Harness Racing Awards. There are three outstanding candidates, each of whom have undeniable claims to the Horse of the Year Award. Leap To Fame would have been regarded as a certainty to win it three months ago, but with the […]
We predicted that there would be 17 scratchings from the Mt Isa meeting due to no jockey being available to ride them, but we were wrong. There were actually 21. Jockey Jason Hoopert unfortunately had a fall in the first and had to be taken to hospital, so given there were no riders to take […]
I wonder why the Wagga Stewards would have required trainer Jake Stockton to hold back his $71.oo winner Shoobees Charm back 3 hours for post-race swabbing? Was it because a couple of weeks before he had ducked one of his horses off the course early before it could be swabbed? Could it be because Shoobees […]
Far be it for me to question Queensland’s leading reinsman Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen about his driving tactics in races, but please allow me the indulgence of doing so on this one occasion. My question relates to the race in replay above, and it is this. How far would the favorite Aardies Money have won race […]
There are five races at Mt Isa today. The field sizes are 8, 9, 9, 9, and 12. The problem is that only six jockeys are set down to ride at the meeting. That means that there will be 17 late scratchings from the meeting for want of a rider. This should have been totally […]
