Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tarleton Riley is an 10-year-old pacer who has been racing since the year 2014 and has had 225 starts. Riley raced in the last at Hobart last night at 11.00pm. He sat three-wide without cover for the last lap and finished a tired sixth. Today – less than 24 hours later – the poor old […]
This is what’s wrong with harness racing. We glorify people who should be thrown head first out of the sport. Yesterday we told you about Jack ‘Breaker’ Laugher copping his umpteenth suspension for whip rule breach offences, which are acts of abject animal cruelty under another name. Breaker’s latest 5 week suspension was deferred to […]
Decron Horse Care is a highly reputable company run by Copy That’s owner Merv Butterworth, a good and honourable man and a great supporter of harness racing. What a great shame it is that Merv’s generous sponsorship of the Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Drivers Championship was blighted by the series being won by Jack ‘Breaker’ […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole from Tasmania is officially Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer. He is also one of the nation’s most prolific individual horse killers, which is why we call him Chainsaw – that and the fact that he and his mate the greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock chop the trotters they kill into pieces and feed […]
Crossing the reins (also known as bridging the reins) – This means putting one rein over the top of the other, to form a small hoop about 10cms (4in) long, which you hold between your hands and which fits over the horse’s neck. It is often used by harness drivers to drive their horse with […]
Jack Laugher is on Ozzie Playboy,. the horse in the white and blue in the middle in the one-one. What the hell is he doing with that leg? If he is trying to kick out the plugs, then he’s a real bad shot. You wouldn’t want your team playing him at full forward. Nah, I […]
Toowoomba trainer Matt Boland hasn’t been seen at the track since January. He was seen at the QRIC offices a fortnight ago copping a $2000 fine for a positive swab to steroids (wtf?), but he seems to have no horses and to have left the game. If what we have been told about the fate […]
I have been banging on about hocking in NSW harness racing for months now. It’s for a good reason, many of them in fact. Hocking is the practice of kicking your horse in the back of the leg to propel it forward, the purpose being to inflict pain on the horse to tell it not […]
Take a look at this disgraceful piece of abhorrent animal abuse inflicted on the horse Comet Crusader by its driver Blake Hughes in the 2nd heat of the NSW Derby last Saturday week. Comet Crusader is the horse on the inside rail in the white. The one gone and going backwards. Hughes left right saws […]
Watch the horse in the bright red headgear, back second last on the fence. In particular, watch it’s driver Jeremy Quinlan and see what he does. Now watch the head on. Quinlan comes clearly into shot about 5 seconds in. Watch his actions closely. They are disgraceful. What justification in the world can there be […]
