Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The appeal hearing resumes, and as per the usual practice Justice O’Brien delivers the verdict. We get the preamble first explaining the background of the matter. Reminder this is an appeal on penalty only, that penalty being a 3 week suspension. O’Brien reads out Cain’s submission that he felt Kerr was placing him in danger, […]
Supplementary From Redcliffe 4 September 2024 Race 7 Hearing 10 September 2024 Albion Park Stewards Room Stewards Panel S Shinn (Chair), W Barr, A Dowsett Stewards today inquired into the actions of Leonard Cain, driver of Three Machs, in race 7 at Redcliffe on 4 September 2024. After taking evidence from Mr Cain and viewing […]
Lenny Cain has rocked up with former trot driver turned lawyer Scott Neaves as his representative. Steve Shinn is representing the Stewards and Wayne Kelly is there as lawyer for the QRIC. The panel is Justice O’Brien, Juanita Maiden and Daryl Kays, who I must say is looking well. Cain is here to appeal a […]
Shinn is rambling and raving now. QRIC’s lawyer Kelly gives him a prod and tells him to shut up. Shinn shuts up. Panel member Maiden pipes up and asks for the race vision to be replayed so Cain can point out where exactly Kerr’s horse ran up onto him. The footage doesn’t help Cain a […]
This mass fall at Yarra Glen yesterday was awful. The driver in the white colors catapulted high in the air is Paul Weidenbach. Paul landed very badly, and isn’t in a real good way. His mates tell us that he’s in the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, where he is getting good care. Our thoughts are […]
Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack was found guilty of causing interference aboard Violet Stanford to her main rival Pinnie in the heat of the Vicbred Super Series 3YO Trotters Fillies semi-final at Geelong on Friday night, and outed for 7 days. The Stewards pinned Cracker for shifting out at the 400m causing interference to both Pinnie and […]
The Naomi Kerr trained Prioritise eased out in the market from $1.60 out to $3.40 in the 5th race at Port Pirie last night, which seemed odd for a pacer that had won its past three on end at the stronger class track in Mildura. It didn’t take long to find out why it blew […]
The first at Albion Park last night was an absolute gee up. Matt Elkins on the favorite Royal Speech should have been charged with an unacceptable drive. What he did was a disgrace. With the Elkins trained/Narissa McMullen (his wife) driven no hoper Art Jester attacking it like a maniac, the leader Dangerzone had run […]
On the same night that G. Hall Jr gave us a demonstration in the Eureka of how not to drive a horse in a big race, Kate Gath put on a master class that showed exactly how to do it right. Gath’s steer on Catch A Wave in the Len Smile was simply superb, a […]
I always believed that I would go to my grave never having seen a big race drive as bad as Brian Healy’s slaughter job on Maori’s Idol in the 1978 Inter Dominion (above). But I was wrong. Gary Hall Jr’s abominable steer on Never Ending last night earns the Perth reinsman a place right alongside […]
