Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
C.C. Chevron is a ten year old pacer, which is pretty old in racing terms. The aged gelding is also Australia’s most over-raced horse. In the past 52 weeks he has raced 62 times, which is a hell of a lot of racing in any person’s language. That’s one issue, but not the main one. […]
Gee, I wonder why the Stewards are looking at G. Hall Junior’s whip use. He’s the one in the yellow and blue one off the fence in the death. I suspect little Gaz may have breached the whip rule. How about you?
You could see rounding the turn in race 5 at Randwick that the heavily backed Bjorn Baker trained galloper Deel With Me had gone amiss. It was obvious. The horse changed action and started running like he was on three legs, and boring in toward the off side where he was obviously hurting. The only […]
This is Lord Bazalup. He is a pacer, but more accurately, he is a walker. Jamie Durnberger from Summit Bloodstock owns him. Summit Bloodstock is Australia’s larges harness race horse owner by volume. Ben Yole is Lord Bazalup’s trainer. Last week Ben was honoured by Harness Racing Australia with an award as the nation’s leading […]
Former Central QLD Chief Steward Tate Hudson was at the Bundaberg Races yesterday as part of a QRIC Integrity Investigation Team. Why on earth the IIT would be at country Bundy instead of at the Sunshine Coast metro meeting or the Ipswich provincial is anyone’s guess, but that’s a side issue. Hudson decided that he […]
SAFE NZ’s Will Appelbe says he’s spoken with “a number of people in the industry” who all fear the rapidly declining numbers are not an example of an industry bettering itself for the sake of its dogs, but one willing to do everything it can to save itself – even if that means harming them […]
The showcase night of the Victorian harness racing year ended up as nothing but a demonstration of the utter contempt that the leader of our industry hold for the welfare of our racing animals. It was an orgy of animal cruelty from whoa to go, and David Moran was one of the stars of the […]
This just gets worse. Animal welfare in Victoria is a code word for beat them. The replay that you see below is of the Group 1 Vicbred Super Series 2YO Colts and Geldings Trotters Final, worth $50 000 to the winner. Kerryn Manning is the driver of Plymouth Chubb, the horse one off the fence […]
The Australian Harness Racing industry continues to be at the forefront of equine health and welfare, including the way in which drivers can apply the whip. As society’s expectations of welfare continue to evolve at a rapid rate, particularly with regards to racing animals, what was once considered acceptable practice has been transformed by both […]
