Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A few weeks back we wrote about how swabbing at QLD metropolitan race meetings has been vastly enhanced under the leadership of QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly, who was perhaps Australia’s – if not the world’s – best Steward prior to taking up his new executive role. It’s pleasing to see that the swabbing at […]
We often hear Stewards use the terms general deterrence and specific deterrence as the drivers for determining the penalties handed down to licensees who breach the rules. Specific deterrence as it relates to a penalty means basically “How hard do we need to hit this person for a breach of the rules to make sure […]
This morning we published a story about the protest in the last race at Kilmore last night. In the story we were critical of the decision of the HRV Stewards to relegate the winner, suggesting that they had forgotten that the Lapped On rule had been repealed, and describing the relegation as a joke. Well […]
THE New Zealand government’s decision to ban greyhound racing is based on “nonsense” according to a leading NZ vet. And the government has been captured by woke activists from the SPCA, SAFE and the NZ Vet Association, all of them vocal minorities. That’s the backlash from Donald Arthur who has been a veterinary surgeon for […]
Victorian trainers David Vozlic and Aaron Coad – the pair whose feud on social media we wrote about yesterday – just don’t know when to stop. Here they are at it again. If Harness Racing Victoria weren’t going to go after them already for breaching the Social Media Policy and/or the rules, they almost certainly […]
Take a look at the drive of Brad Williamson on the favorite Cracker Opie in this race at Oamaru on Wednesday. It’s the horse in the 1-1 when the video starts, in white silks with blue and red arm bands. How hard do you reckon Williamson was trying to win? Not at all is the […]
Hi Archie, Regarding the closure of the Greyhound Industry in NZ. The biggest issue Mr Peters has not addressed yet will be the mental health of the greyhound participants and others affected by this closure. I know this personally because after the NSW ban on greyhound racing was announced I ended up in the Tweed […]
It’s not all that often that I disagree with Peter V’Landys, but when it comes to his views expressed to the Rosehill sale inquiry our opinions diverge completely. V’Landys told the inquiry that it is racehorse owners who fund the industry, not punters or the government. To that I say bullshit. People buy racehorses to […]
Two prominent NZ harness racing identities* were yesterday convicted of criminal offences. One of the men is a trainer who is currently unlicensed, despite completing his disqualification for race day doping . He has been found guilty on three counts stemming from a sexual assault of a woman. The other man is a driver who […]
Yesterday the New Zealand Government announced that it will phase out greyhound racing over a 20-month period, with racing to be banned by the end of July 2026. While this decision will obviously be bitterly disappointing and distressing for the participants and their families in the greyhound racing industry in New Zealand, the NZ government’s […]
