Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mark Pardon has made a huge call redirecting star 4yo Don’t Stop Dreaming Victorian campaign target away from the 4yo Bonanza to the Hunter Cup in the wake of his stablemate Akuta’s potentially career ending injury. That’s not to say that Don’t Stop Dreaming can’t win the Hunter Cup, but it’s a huge risk because […]
As if RV CEO Andrew Jones woes weren’t deep enough already, what with free falling wagering turnover, reduced prize money, a failed attempt to usurp Peter V’Landys by creating a rebel national peak body without him in it, deep unrest within prominent sectors of the industry, and who knows what else, with the list going […]
The Auckland Trotting Club are indeed buying a new property to build a replacement training centre for Franklin Park that it just sold off to pay its huge debts from the failed property development that was supposed to make the club rich into eternity from the sell off of surplus land at Alexandra Park (nobody […]
Tom Ison had 24 runners on the 9 race card at Tamworth on Tuesday, making him not quite Ben Yole but well on the way. In shades of Yole, 8 of the 9 starters in race 8 were trained by Ison. All of them were owned by either Summit and Bain, or by his father […]
RELOCATION OF THE TRAINING TRACK This is looming on the horizon and once the court has completed the documentation the next phase of the sale and purchase agreement will be triggered which incorporates a lease back arrangement for the club whilst we look for an alternative block of land to relocate to. Already we have […]
Greyhound trainer Janene Armstrong turned up to the Albion Park race meeting on the 4th of October with two dogs that were significantly underweight, to the point of being the canine version of WW2 POW’s, of which my grandfather was one. It ain’t pleasant. Red Burner was down 2.2 kilograms on its previous racing weight […]
The mail out of Tasmania is that Ray Murrihy’s final report into allegations of race fixing and animal welfare breaches by the Ben Yole stable is set to be released today. Will it be fair dinkum or will it be a farce? A lot of racing people and animal welfare advocates across the state are […]
Why would the QRIC need to send 6 Stewards, 3 Judges, 2 vets, 2 swab attendants and 2 starters to yesterday’s midweek Doomben meeting? It wasn’t a Saturday metro, and only 6 horses were pre-race swabbed, and just the winners after. So why the cast of thousands? None of it makes any sense from a […]
This is the Stewards Report from race 8 at Doomben yesterday. A question, or two actually. When there were no protests or major incidents in the previous race, and there are no pre-race incidents in this one, shouldn’t the field get to the start on time, particularly when it is only 250m or so from […]
Harness Racing NZ’s chief executive Mauro Barsi – the man formerly at the helm of Alexandra Park during the redevelopment debacle – has announced that the organisation’s General Manager of racing, marketing and communications Catherine McDonald has stepped down from her position and will be leaving in a fortnight. It’s a load of palaver. McDonald […]
