Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
Do you remember the story ‘Taking The Piss’ that we wrote a few weeks back about driver Jack Brown and the switched urine sample at Goulburn? Taking the Piss – Jacko Stooges the Stewards by Pulling the Old Switcheroo Well we didn’t name the fellow driver who provided Brown with a sample of their urine […]
Ultimate Geejay and Arklow are a pair of rating 36 and 37 horses, which is about as low as a horse can go, meaning that neither of them are much chop. Horses of their class can’t run fast early splits and keep going at the winning end, because they are just not good enough. So […]
The Western Australian stewards decision to allow Chris Voak to drive the Michael Brennan trained Pinny Tiger in tomorrow night’s $450 000 WA Cup instead of driving the horse he trains himself in the race Sangue Reale flied in the face of the spirit and intent of the rules, and quite frankly defies belief. The […]
Merrywood Paul had won 9 races from 65 starts coming into the 2nd race at Newcastle on Friday night 6 of those wins had come from the front, 2 from off the leader’s back, and one from 3 back the fence. In other words, Merrywood Paul had never won a race when not positioned on […]
Canadian trainer Richard Moreau wasn’t the only one who was disqualified for 10 years after new Australian developed tests sprung him having spiked up his stable star Funtime Bayama with synthetic EPO. The horse’s driver Sylvain Filion was too. Filion, who drove the winners of $6 million in prizemoney last year earning him $300 000 […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC01112403.mp4 Some very nice bets were landed when Aqua Sancta was backed from $151 into $21 to win the 2nd a Albion Park yesterday. The punters who got the cash should send rival driver Dayl Mach a Thank You card for making it all happen. Mach was on the $51 shot Bonnie’s Cam, who had […]
Merlin’s devastating win yesterday in the Ashburton Flying Mile was a reminder to one-eyed Aussie trot fans that the race of the century in the New Zealand Cup next Tuesday is going to be far from one horse affair. The time was outstanding, his sizzling high speed sprint past leader Don’t Stop Dreaming up the […]
Watch driver Tiarna Ford’s use of the cane on the winner Hurricane Rock from the 400m mark on in the 6th race at Launceston on Sunday. Hurricane Rock’s the horse in the green and gold coming around the outside. Ford doesn’t just breach the whip rule, she smashes it into little pieces as she smashes […]
We couldn’t find the points scoring rules and conditions for the Australian Women’s Drivers Championship held at Launceston yesterday published anywhere, so this article has been written based on the Australian Drivers Championship (ADC) rules published on the HRA website. Click to access aust-driving-champ-rules.pdf Under these rules Western Australia’s Deni Roberts (pictured) has won the […]
