Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It seems gone are the days when shareholders would turn up to an annual general meeting wanting to hear about a firm’s actual financial performance. These days it’s de rigueur to create a struggle session between the woke warriors who buy a few shares in order to ask politically-motivated questions and the hapless board who are under […]
21/12/2023 Licensing Committee Decisions The Committee, at the most recent Licensing Committee Meeting, resolved to:- approve the granting of a Trainer’s Licence to Mr. David Eustace for the 2024/25 racing season. Attached is Mr Eustace’s profile. endorse the proposed update of Trainer’s retirement age from 65 to 66 with immediate effect; revise the criteria for Trainer’s […]
It took HRV a while, but it appears that they have finally stepped up to the plate. I suspect that the harnessweb program for transfer of trainers isn’t up to scratch for recognising a disqualified trainer on a stay, and that it just allowed the trainer change as it would any other uncontroversial trainer trainer […]
I wonder what’s happened at Harness Racing Victoria that precipitated the giant backflip that has seen the integrity department reject the transfer of horses from Emma Stewart to her partner Clayton Tonkin, almost two weeks after the transfers happened and were approved? It certainly is a huge turnaround from when we first raised the issue […]
Jock Gollogly was one of the great racing men in Queensland racing history. His unfortunate passing this week has been well covered by others he knew him better than we. Racing Queensland has rightly marked his passing with a race named after him on Saturday. Sadly though they can’t even spell his name. It is […]
This is a media release issued by the QRIC yesterday.It is a well meaning and much needed initiative, but utterly clueless. Here is why, from someone who has a first hand clue about mental health struggles. The release is in normal font, this author’s comments are in italics. In recent times, there has been growing […]
Breaking news: Emma Stewart transfers stable stars to Clayton Tonkin! pic.twitter.com/DAp8DhzW4O — SENTrack (@SEN_track) December 19, 2023
As we tipped you last week, Damian Oliver’s farewell on the track may have ended perfectly, but the fallout with his manager had been mighty. The long-time relationship between Oliver and manager Neil Pinner has broken down spectacularly, with the cause of course being that old age demon – missing money. $2.5 million is the […]
Over the course of the past two months this website published a number of stories alleging potential misconduct relation to conflicts of interest between the personal and professional activities of Mr Matthew Isaacs in his role as CEO of Harness Racing Victoria. These stories were based on information from multiple sources, and were written based […]
Background In November 2023, Harness Racing Victoria referred a matter to the Racing Integrity Commissioner concerning serious allegations about its CEO, Mr Matthew Isaacs, and the operation of its integrity department. Specifically, that Mr Isaacs: • awarded a professional services contract to a company whose sole director was a close, personal friend and part-owner of […]
