Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How good are Queensland harness horses? Well that’s one question I think about as we near to the magnificent Constellation Carnival. Before Leap to Fame came along you’d probably say well they had Blake’s a Fake. Yes they did, and he was dominant for his time in the sun. This horse was at the top […]
There were six races at Port Pirie. The winners of only two of them were post race swabbed after their victories. Those two winners swabbed were trained by Ryan Hryhorec (1) and Leah Holman (1). None of Aaron Bain’s three winners was asked to give a post-race sample. That’s a bit of a worry, for […]
The word out of Ascot, QLD this week is that at least one trainer who is walking around sporting cracked ribs and a busted eye believes that Eagle Farm was the scene of crime perpetrated on him last week by a former owner and one time bestie with whom the trainer had recently had an […]
BY John Lingard PUNTERS will be pleased to hear that Tommy Berry wasn’t disappointed with the plain effort of HUETOR in the G2 Hollindale Cup at the Sunshine Coast last Saturday. There wasn’t much else he could say after giving it no hope dropping back to last from a wide draw. He was quick to […]
On the 30th of April 2014 trainer/driver Rodney Pike was disqualified for 8 years after 5 of his horses recorded among the highest Cobalt readings ever seen in NSW after winning races. The levels that the horses recorded were extraordinart – 360 ug/L, 530 ug/L, 1200ug/L, 1440 ug/L & 2360 ug/L. At the time the […]
We first met the corporate bookmaker Baggybet (real name Mailbag Wagering Pty Ltd) back in October last year when we wrote about how the company then owned by tips spruiker Jack Dickens and the Chairman of the Australian and Victorian Bookmakers Associations Chris Lester was fined $82 620 by the NT Gaming Commission for breaches […]
A number of readers have been asking us who exactly these co-Chairmen of the VBA are. As we don’t know them personally, we cannot tell you first hand, but what we can do for you is to use their professional Linkedin profiles to give you a picture. Chris Lester (pictured at top) started his business […]
The word from across the ditch is that as we predicted some weeks back, the current Albion Park chairman Brad Steele has been offered and has accepted the CEO role at Harness Racing New Zealand. An official announcement will be made next week is the mail. Steele’s brother Scott won’t be able to travel over […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
A pacer named Black Edition was purchased from NZ by Kerry Ann Morris, and arrived at her stables in Menangle on the 2oth of November 2020. 5 of 6 days before leaving NZ – somewhere between the 14th and 15th of November 2020 – Black Edition had been treated with levamisole by the seller’s trainer […]
