It’s Time For David Fowler to Hang Up the Binoculars and Take Up Bowls
Who do reckon won this photo? It’s not very hard to pick is it? It was for the eagle eyed David Fowler. I reckon that Saturday afternoons spent on the bowling green beckon.
A Worthy Appointment by Racing NSW – And One That Should Send a Chill Down Every $5 Million Punt Losing Gold Coast Butcher’s Spine
News out of Racing NSW is that the world’s greatest racing administrator Peter V’Landys has appointed former leading NSW detective Jacqueline Johnstone to the vital role of General Manager Here is what the RNSW press release about the appointment says: Reporting to the Chief Executive, the General Manager – Integrity, together with the Chairman of […]
Big Richie’s Cryptic Clue
My dad was good at cryptic crosswords. I was hopeless. But let me have a guess here. Brett Prebble? A prebble being almost a pebble, being almost a stone. I don’t know if I am right or not. But if I am I say just this. Prebble being one of the half dozen greatest jockeys […]
The Wrong Weight – Sorry Ross
Gday Arch We agree wholeheartedly with your Jason Grimson story this morning!! 100 percent. However the owner of Major Meister R Weightman is Ross though we think, not Rod. Ross Weightman is a Mildura friend of Frank Barone and they have had horses together before. Ross is no relation to Rod. He is however the […]
When You Have Clowns in Charge of the Circus the Monkeys Run Free
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=CR121222 Go race 3 on this program. Hit replay. Then skip forward to the 1min 52 second mark and push play. Watch the driver of the horse on the leader’s back, the one in the pink. In particular watch him in the straight. Do you reckon he tries to win or lose? If your answer […]
EXCLUSIVE – Trot Trainer Beats Horse – A Disgraceful Case of Wanton Animal Abuse – Officer Arrest This Man Right Now (First Published 25 October)
The grub in this video is a NSW trainer named Mitch Hutchings. I don’t know what the horse is. What I do know is that this type of animal abuse is disgraceful. Just lead the bloody thing onto the float, don’t beat it. This bloke’s license should be stripped immediately. We are not barbarians. There […]
One Trainer Has 64/75 Runners On a Card? – Tasmanian Harness Racing is Nothing But a Farce
There were 8 races on the program at Burnie in Tasmania on Friday night. Collectively they were worth just a tick under $51 000. Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole collected most of it. It wasn’t hard, given that he trained 64 of the 75 starters on the card. This is ridiculous. Tassie harness racing is right now […]
EXCLUSIVE – Hutchings Hit The Horse With With A Farrier’s Hammer – Ban Him For Life (First Published October 2022)
Would you hit a horse with this weapon? Mitchell Hutchings did. It is a farrier’s hammer. They are like a claw hammer, the type that psychopaths use to murder people. The sharp end – the claw – can break your skull open.
What the Hell is Going on at Wagga? – Is There Anyone That This CEO Gangles Clown Can’t Drive Away?
So first this Greg Gangles character pisses off the lovely lady who shouts the trainers and drivers a feed and a hot drink every meeting because she wants to, figuratively and literally. There was no reason on earth to reward Mrs Christine Clement by kicking her in the head, but CEO Gangles did it anyway. […]
What a Pair of Clowns
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PCC20122205.mp4 Have a look at this. It is a rating up to 70 race at Menangle on a Tuesday afternoon. Jack Brown on the leader and Darren Binskin on his back have run the first half mile of the 1609m race in 53.7 seconds. They might as well have put guns to their heads. Horses […]