Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
No it’s not Grant Dixon we are talking about, surprisingly enough. Colt Thirty One and Leap To Fame’s killer has nothing on WA reinsman Shane Young. They are not even in the same league. Young part owns, trains and drives the brilliant Wonderful To Fly, who would quite possibly be the best of her sex […]
This is race 2 at Cannon Park in Cairns this afternoon. Anything look familiar? I’ve got a tip. Tom Hedley’s horses will run the quinella, trifecta, quadrella, First 4 and 5th place too. I’ve got an even hotter one. The Hedley horse that is plunged wins. It’s a system I learnt from the sponsor, Mr […]
Irishman Kevin Connolly was director of racing at Tongshun. It was alleged the horses were slaughtered as a protest against the government’s refusal to legalise gambling on horse racing. While Connolly acknowledged there had been a cull, he was accused of attempting to downplay its scale. He told Godfrey: “All the horses have not been […]
Auckland harness racing’s woes continue with just 63 horses slated to start tonight at the metropolitan meeting at Alexandra Park, on a card where only 5 of the 8 races boast a field of eight or more runners. Two of the races have miserable fields of just 6 starters, with another having only 7 horses […]
4 of the 7 races at the Gold Coast on Saturday have fields of less than 8 starters. The Kilcoy TAB meeting boasts just a 5 race card. Atherton has only 5 races on the program too. It has field sizes of 6,6,7, 3 and 9. Gympie also has only 5 races. At least 4 […]
Have you ever seen a weaker Inter Dominion series in your life than next month’s ID23 in Brisbane? Thanks to the decisions of Harness Racing Australia to alienate the Kiwi’s a couple of years ago there are no New Zealanders in the race, which immediately eliminates the ‘Inter’ in the name and cuts our star […]
We tried to warn them, but the QRIC allowed a cowardly woman bashing trainer to keep his license and even once be nominated for an annual award. Whilst we won’t name him due to the probability of outstanding yet to be decided charges having been laid, this trainer who has clear but inexcusably dangerous mental […]
We are informed by Mr Adams, who appears for the Respondent in today’s hearing, that the rail was in its true position at the relevant location and was only at plus 2 1/2 metres from the from the 600 metres to the 300 metre mark and thereafter remained in its true position. This was the […]
The INCA affair in New Zealand has been a long running saga that has claimed plenty of victims. A supposed police investigation into alleged corruption, race-fixing and recreational drug use in the harness racing industry that commenced in 2018 on the flimsiest of grounds and saw numerous licensees charged with various race rule and even […]
Hello Archie When are the powers to be (RQ & QRIC) going to be held accountable for the total demise of racing in Toowoomba. I am pretty sure it was you Archie that wrote a story about the ‘Geran’s being kissed by a fairy’. You are spot on. Seven weeks ago, their man who plays […]
