Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Unless we are all seeing things, the WA Stewards got this wrong. Our Sandy Shore (drawn 1 on the front row) didn’t gallop as the start was effected in the Mares Classic on Friday night. She galloped about 10 to 20 meters before the gates released. Given that horse drawn on the inside of the […]
By Chris Barrett November 24, 2024 — 5.00am Harness racing is embroiled in a drug-testing scandal after two up-and-coming drivers from Sydney submitted urine samples that were found with all but mathematical certainty to have come from the same person. In a bombshell case like few others in Australian sport and racing, Jack Brown, 20, […]
Here we go again. Another jockey decides to knock off early and cost his mount’s owners money. Keep you eye on the horse in the lime and two tones of blue on the fence behind the leading pack. Watch rider Corey Bayliss decide about 30m before the finish that he is tired of riding in […]
There is a bit more behind the poor performance of Hold My Halo at Atherton yesterday than meets the eye by reading the official Stewards Report, Hold My Halo wasn’t just fractious in the gates, he went berko, rearing and throwing jockey Denicious Smith out the back. The horse was unloaded from the barriers to […]
The dream team are back – Trainer John and driver Brent Livingstone, aka Hot And Dangerous (Owner Clint’s the And) Who needs Jason Grimson and his steroid pumped muscles and tatts, when you can have Johnny Livingstone and his coke bottle glasses instead? Livingstone showed the world how its done with ex-Grimson trained horses when […]
Dear Peter Profit Yes Perth race caller Darren McCaulay made a rare error and called the wrong horse over the line in the Railway. But he then did what David Fowler would never do… apologised. Profusely, about a dozen times. Apologised to connections, apologised to punters, and then, when he threw to the mounting yard, […]
If you are going to make a mistake and call the wrong horse the winner, then the last race you would want to do it in is the biggest Group 1 of the year. You have to feel sorry for Darren McCaulay then don’t you? He got it all wrong in the Group 1 Railway […]
The Wolf Signs Divided Open Pace at Albion Park doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a really really interesting little pace, mainly because it acts as a litmus test about whether any trainer can get a horse going again after Jason Grimson has had it and it has left his care. Many have tried and […]
HARNESS Racing New South Wales advises that the licences of Neville Hargraves and Paul Sapio have been suspended pursuant to Australian Harness Racing Rule (AHRR) 183 after Stewards commenced an investigation into a report received that WHYIMAN had been stomach tubed or attempted to be stomach tubed prior to its engagement enroute to the Menangle […]
Everyone’s favorite North QLD jockey and successful self-represented litigant Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day didn’t have a very good one at the Cairns races yesterday. You never do when you cop two suspensions in the same race within the space of half a furlong. Grubby was on the leader. He gave poor old Ryan Wiggins on the […]
