Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie knows people everywhere. He knows how much you cut it, and what you cut it with too. I bet you didn’t your mates that one before they handed you the cash. Tweet tweet. You’re beat. I’m a Kiwi too don’t forget, and have been tripping the light fantastic since before you were born/ Which […]
So I’m an honest man writing true stories about the trots and earning double six figures for doing so while breaking no laws and giving name, address, date of birth and fuck off mate interviews to police when questioned. Andrew Fitzgerald is a bum trot trainer and driver earning SFA who illegally syndicates shit pacers […]
How many of the animal activists who hate greyhound racing and want to shut it down actually keep a retired dog as a pet do you reckon? 2/3rds of 1/5th of SFA is my guess. Not knowing and loving the breed is no impediment to the vegan’s crusade though, it continues on apace. It’s not […]
The Tasmanian Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) is a joke, and a real bad one too. It allows stable hands to smash horses with pieces of poly pipe as their trainer watches on, to force the bastards to get in the pool and swim, and calls it contact to the rump of a horse with […]
Stewards concluded an inquiry into an incident at the Brighton Training Complex on the 30th of September 2022. Trainer Sarah Cotton was found guilty to a charge under the provisions of AR228 (b) – conduct detrimental to the interests of racing – improper conduct. Particulars of the charge were that at the Brighton Training Complex […]
If Ben Hope was a horse and they’d put him for sale at Canterbury Agricultural Park as a yearling he would have been the top price lot. Any buyer would want this well conformed colt by the multiple group 1 winning champion sire Greg Hope out of the multiple group 1 winning dam Nina Hope, […]
Our story yesterday about the business interests of Ben Yole’s major owner Steve Wyles sparked the attention of a reader, who wrote in to tell us about the joint just up the road from Wyle’s old company Freight Partners in Carrum Downs that boils down dead horses and recycles them into oil. I didn’t quite […]
Have you read Adman Hamilton’s latest polemic on the state of harness racing, and how to fix it? Adman says that we need to modernize the sport by turning it in to Trot Rod city. Trot races take too long he reckons. Back in the day a study showed that 30% of air time on […]
One thing I don’t do is lie. The jury is out on that one. I did not know that stock whips were banned. Oh yeah. Why did you think no-one else uses them? Where I come from (Ilfracombe, 1100km west of Brisbane), stock whips are used as a guiding tool, like a jockey would use, […]
The Tasmanian government has announced an independent investigation after an ABC report on allegations of team driving and race fixing by the state’s most prominent harness racing stable. On Sunday, an ABC investigation aired allegations of unusual races and betting patterns in races dominated by horses from trainer Ben Yole’s stable, as well as concerns about […]
