Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Popular South Australian harness racing identity Joe Carbone (pictured), a businessman and former prominent trainer, and later owner of good horses like Tact Hayley’s Delight and Major Lincoln, is in a bad way in the ICU right now after suffering a serious medical incident earlier this week. It’s not good news, but Joe’s been there […]
At the time of his death John Adams, the lawyer at the centre of the Great Bookie’s Scam, was a Director of companies. These companies are listed below. (Important Note – We make no allegation or suggestion that any of these companies or any of their office holders were in any way involved in or […]
12 years ago the leading trot driver Cameron Fitzpatrick, a then 26yo man born on blue blood harness racing lines who has been around the sport his whole life, became embroiled in the Green Light scandal that rocked NSW harness racing to it’s core. The Green Light involved a number of trainers and drivers paying […]
Apparently there is a lot of conjecture down at Woodend Beach about how we are getting our on the money information about the goings on in the sand, and who is giving it to us. Fingers are being pointed everywhere, but always in the wrong places. We never give up our sources and never will, […]
The news overnight that Self Assured won’t be lining up in the NZ Trotting Cup in 12 days time comes as no great surprise to those who were aware that owner Jean Fiess had been privately expressing great concern about her great pacer’s lacklustre performance at Kaikoura on Monday, and mulling over whether to pull […]
https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/bank-account-discovery-in-100m-ponzi-scheme-probe-20231101-p5egpa.html The latest news on the Bookie Scam Scandal is that a secret Commonwealth bank account used to transact all the cash in the AMS scam mortgage scheme that was claimed to have been run flying solo by the dead man who can tell no tales John Adams has been discovered. In an ominous sign […]
The Board of the RIB (which is accountable to the Minister for Racing) is now seeking to appoint an outstanding Chief Executive with a track record of providing strategic leadership and driving engagement with industry stakeholders. This is an opportunity to take on a crucial leadership role within the sector, that leads the racing industry’s […]
In New Zealand yearling harness horses aren’t allowed to compete in any race prior to 1 October. It’s a newish rule introduced by HRNZ earlier this year on the 1st of February without any official notice or circular appearing to have been sent to participants, which means that few trainers other than the handful that […]
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/articles/camp-quality-a-big-winner-as-andy-takes-out-charity-challenge/ The Harness Charity Challenge is a wonderful concept that helps raise much needed funds for worthy charities, and the organisers deserve congratulations and applause for their unpaid efforts in organising and running the competition, which is basically a tipping contest centred on competitors paying $250 to buy in to play, and then betting imaginary […]
The brilliant pacer Captain Ravishing will not be going direct into the Breeders Crown 4yo on November 18 as reported on Harnesslink owner Hass Taiba told us this morning. There has been a change of plan of plan for the crack horse who obliterated his rivals in the Bonanza this year at Melton running 1.50.9. […]
