Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
19-year-old Victorian reinsman Ryan Backhouse was suspended for 7 days and fined $100 for using the whip or rein in an unapproved manner on Rio Rock in the 1st race at Mildura on the 26th of February. It seemed a harsh penalty because there was nothing in it. Take a look. Backhouse is in the […]
Dear Archie Recent news is that Wade Birch has resigned his position with Racing New South Wales greyhounds and advised his department that he is relocating back to Qld. However he does not have a job to come back to yet. Few jobs going though that he might slot into…. Noel from Narrabri Editor’s note […]
US jockey Paco Lopez did his very best to bring racing into disrepute on the weekend at the Parx track in Pennsylvania. The video of his wanton cruelty has gone viral around the world. Lopez had been immediately and indefinitely suspended. His ultimate stretch will be long.
Retired jockey James Winks was seen out earlier this week at the Breakfast Club in Prahran (pictured above) enjoying a convivial lunch with winning rider Ben Allen and others to celebrate Pinstriped’s stirring win in the Memsie. Perhaps it was a bit too convivial at that. Nothing good ever comes from getting on the turps […]
Wayne Hawkes has ridden in about as many races as we have, which gives him no more or less say on the Jamie Kah ride than we have. Our view is clear. Kah is culpable, and she should cop it for failing to take the run. Hawkes disagrees. He reckons that there was no fault […]
A barrister charged with drug trafficking was allegedly found with an Aladdin’s cave of drugs and paraphernalia inside his $800-a-week apartment with bay views. Anthony Grant, 44, was allegedly running a trap house-style illegal pharmacy inside his 16th floor apartment, where police uncovered erectile dysfunction medication, an array of prescription drugs and an imitation penis, […]
If you are going to try and pull a swiftie on the Stewards by slipping them a doctored medical report, it would be sensible to check that the doctor who you are pretending wrote the report is still in business first. Trackwork rider Kirsty Mason isn’t semsible. She submitted a Health Assessment Results Form dated […]
Have you ever seen a stuff-up like the start of race 6 at Doomben yesterday in your life? The rider of Glorious Ruby gets hurled out the back of the stalls. There is shouting and commotion everywhere, and the official behind the gates raises their hand to alert the starter, but it doesn’t work. Somehow […]
An article about the parlous finances of the Auckland Trotting Club written by Michael Guerin and published on harnesslink yesterday may be more skilfully written than ours, but it merely reflects what we have been telling you and warning about in the articles below for the past three years. https://peterprofit.com/category/auckland-trotting-club/ The ATC Directors whose grandiose […]
As reported by Michael Guerin for the NZ Herald, a crippling interest bill is threatening to cut into the future of northern harness racing as the code in the region undergoes a major rebuild both on and off the track. Harness racing in Auckland is set for a racing boost for the next few seasons […]
