Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
First we had the selectors deciding that pacers like Birkirkara, which has never won a Group or Listed race; Hesitate, whose best performance is a second in a Group 2 at Bathurst; and Betterthancash, whose only black type victory was in a Listed country championship series; in the field ahead of Captains Mistress, last years’ […]
Jett Turnbull (pictured) is only 17 years old, but even at this early stage of his career the record setting junior driver appears to have some of his more senior rivals rattled. Mat Rue is one. At Dubbo on Friday night Rue drove three favorites or 2nd favorites in a row in races 4-6 against […]
The money was on My Ultimate Felix in the last at Redcliffe on Wednesday night. It was smashed from $19.00 into $4.00, and it was stable money too. Someone forgot to tell the driver about it. Or perhaps he didn’t hear them. Firenstorm was hammered late in the betting too. $51.00 into $8.00 it firmed. […]
Why did Peter McMullen seem far more interested in the progress of the horse coming down the outside in race 7 at Albion Park yesterday than he was in the finishing position of his own horse Saucy Dreams? Could it be that it was because the horse on the outside was his stablemate Major Fernco, […]
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 […]
24 June 2025 Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards have concluded Inquiries that were commenced in relation to the provision of human urine samples to HRNSW Stewards at Goulburn on 21 October 2024, Menangle on 19 November 2024 and the subsequent analysis of those samples. On Wednesday 21 May 2025, Mr Rando was present […]
The former bookmaker Lindsay Gallagher owned pacer The Post Office was sensationally backed in the last few minutes of betting to win the first race at Marburg yesterday, firming from $51.00 late into $11.00 at the jump. The Post Office delivered by landing the plunge, but only after two extraordinary strokes of uncommonly good fortune […]
This is the Stewards report for The Hayden at Albion Park on Saturday night. That was the race we showed you where Peter McMullen broke the rules to try to block Grant Dixon’s horse Call To Order from coming up the sprint lane. Penalties in feature events over the Winter Carnival are supposed to attract […]
THE RULES 167. (1) From the time the sprint lane becomes available for racing purposes, the leading horse closest to the inside running line and any horse in advance of and outside that horse or having passed that horse on its outside shall not enter any part of the sprint lane. (2) In the event of the […]
What you see above is the starting point penalty as detailed in the QRIC Penalty Guidelines for a breach of rule AHHR.167(1), which is entering the Sprint Lane. As you can also see there is no starting point penalty for a breach of rule AHRR.167(2). That is because the two parts of the rule […]
