Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dear Archie Let me tell you, there is no one trying to kill off harness racing like GP and RWWA…… GP gifting their land to a developer in return for the “John Burt Memorial Snack Bar” intended to provide nothing for members or race goers, (none of those anyway, the racing is more boring then […]
How bizarre is this? The Aaron Goadsby horses who ran under each others names at Newcastle on Friday night were not disqualified because they weren’t who they were supposed to be, but rather because they started from the wrong positions on the mobile. That appears queer to the extreme. Surely horse A starting as horse […]
The Australian’s very well named literary critic Peter Craven has delivered a polemic in that paper this morning in which he defends the accused – and on the face of it quite certain pervert – actor Kevin Spacey against the allegations of sexual assault brought against him by four different and quite unrelated witnesses. Spacey […]
The picture you see at the top is a still shot taken from the ring in race at Newcastle. As you can see, the heavily backed winner (later disqualified) Kozaczynski is wearing white harness, and 5the unplaced Artistic Scott is wearing black. Artistic Scott is wearing some sort of white cross over band on its […]
New information has come through in the middle of the night about the disqualification drama in the last at Newcastle on Friday night. It was a ring in! Kozaczynski went out and raced as Artistic Scott, and Artistic Scott raced as Kozaczynsi. And in the first instance the Stewards missed it all. Oh dear. The […]
A week and a half ago we wrote to the Harness Racing NSW Integrity Manager Michael Prentice about a start at Bathurst, the one in which half the front line missed the jump, but not the two starters trained out of the man in the mobile David Micallef ‘s barn. We asked Mr Prentice to […]
Aaron Goadsby has been in the news lately due to the deeds of his star 2-year-old Lovareschs. I strongly suspect that he is about to hit the headlines for a different matter completely, and one that is not a good news story either. Goadsby had 3horses in the last race at Newcastle on Friday night. […]
Ah, um, I am not so sure that this was ever New Zealand’s national symbol. In fact as half a Kiwi I am quite sure that it wasn’t. I guess Perth was a long way from Auckland back then. And there were no New Zealand horses in the final. But still …
A lot of punters these days claim that they are getting ripped off on deductions for late scratchings by corporate bookies. I say that is not true, or at least untrue in comparison to the deductions taken back in the days when the bookies were on the track. What you see above is the scale […]
How Calcutta’s work is that you buy tickets to try and win a horse in the race in a raffle. In this case the tickets cost $10. If you win one you have to put it up for auction. You can either buy it back yourself by making the highest bid, or you can sell […]
