Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 6 at Port Pirie yesterday was a recipe for trouble. It proved to be exactly that too. Trainer Reece Moore had four runners in the race. One of them was the odds on $1.60 favorite, driven by Moore himself. Another was the 2nd favorite Love To Deal, drawn gate 4 and driven by Wayne […]
This is the full photo that we extracted in our previous story. It appears in the latest edition of the excellent New Zealand publication Harness Xpress. You can see the footrest clearly, and see that the driver’s foot isn’t in it. Cam Hart has broken the rules. Swayzee should be disqualified from his win in […]
AUSTRALIAN HARNESS RULE 170 (1) A driver shall:- (a) throughout the course of a race, drive with both feet in the rests of the sulky, unless he is activating approved gear. (4) A driver shall not:- (a) Attempt to or allow his foot or leg to come into contact with the hind legs of the horse he is driving; (b) Attempt to or allow his foot or leg to be placed in the immediate vicinity of the hind legs of the horse he is driving. (5) A driver who fails to comply with any provision of this […]
It seems that Hunter Cup winning driver Cam Hart has a secret he has been keeping from us all. Cam isn’t short for Cameron. It stands f0r Camilla. He is a she. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just ask HRV Chairman of Stewards Peta Chadwick.
What the hell was Taylor Ford the driver of the $61 shot Bona Khan doing here in the first race at Geelong last night? Ford came out hard looking to cross the 3rd favorite Chasing Rex who was drawn the pole. Chasing Rex’s driver Greg Sugars made it clear that he wasn’t going to hand […]
Why didn’t Sugars let Taylor Ford go and then retake the lead? They wouldn’t have run anywhere near as the fast first quarter, and he’d have been back in front by the half and still a chance. Did the stewards question Sugars drive? After all it takes two to tango at those sectionals. If Ford […]
Will Rixon drove he and Valley Start into a bit of bother in the 2nd race at Menangle on Tuesday afternoon. Rixon was 3rd the fence when they reached the straight for home, but rather than wait for the gap to appear he decided to make it appear, so he pushed out underneath Sofia Arvidsson […]
Mate I normally agree with pretty much everything you write but not with what you written about Will Rixon. If you see the video and look closely you notice that the wheels jam together tight and that’s because Sofie has a UFO gig which are bad for this happening with and everyone knows this. Instead […]
Whip use in all equine sports continues to be a hot topic for regulators and welfare advocates. Researchers in Sweden wondered whether the use of the whip in harness racing there actually accomplishes part of its purpose in encouraging horses to run faster. In a study published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Animal […]
So we never do learn whether Seaton Grima’s check on Cya Art in the Tamworth Cup was by accident or design. The Stewards don’t tell us. All they say is that Super Seaton pleaded guilty to a charge directing his drive Master Catch outwards when insufficiently clear of Cya Art, resulting in Cya Art having […]
