Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Further to our earlier story about leading Kiwi driver John ‘Lurch’ Dunn pulling a sickie at the Ashburton race meeting in Sunday because someone tipped him off about the integrity folk being at the track with their breath testing kit, the red hot mail from the South Island is that the man was in fact […]
As we have written a few times, leading NZ driver John Dunn seems to make a habit in recent times of calling in sick to Sunday meetings after having a big drink at the pub or stables the night before. We’ve lost track of the number of times it’s happened now, but it’s far too […]
Woodend Beach driver John ‘Lurch’ Dunn threw a sickie again today at Addington, once more leaving the owners, trainers, race officials and punters who rely on him well and truly in the lurch, if you pardon the pun. That’s about the 4th time in the past 18 months, which would be a case of invoking […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14102312.mp4 Thee were only two horses under $10 in the betting in race 3 at Albion Park last night. One of them was the odds on favourite Despondent, which went to the lead off the gate. The other was Stormtide, who settled in the 1-1 early, before its driver Nathan Dawson made the seemingly insane […]
The Kiwi stewards and integrity board are far more strict on the application of the whip rule than their cousins over the ditch here in Australia. That was proven again on Friday night at Addington when Mark Purdon copped an 8 meeting suspension for using the whip on his pacer Chase A Dream with more […]
Where do you start about Grant ‘Moses’ Dixon’s drive last night in the Victoria Cup? During the week Dixon was openly admitting that in three seasons of racing, he had never taught Leap To Fame how to develop or use his gate speed. How Bizarre t was an astonishing confession, one that was incomprehensible to […]
With about 12 weeks left to go in the season the Premierships Cameron Hart is a put in take out job to win both the NSW state and metr0 drivers titles with leads of 46 and 25 in each respectively. Josh Gallagher and Will Rixon are in a pitched battle for 2nd in the state […]
If anyone other than driver Michael Stanley can work out what he was thinking with his drive on Rock N Roll Doo in the Kilmore Cup then they are the next Sigmund Freud, for it was nothing but crazy. Stanley was driving the horse that many rate as the best stayer in Australia, so why […]
Hi Archie, Three weeks for foul driving? They are surely kidding. In 1965, I think, Howard Craig grabbed hold of the sulky shaft of the horse outside of his and pushed it so he could get his horse off the rails at the Melbourne Showgrounds. This is probably the most notorious case of foul driving […]
Foul driving is one of the most serious offences in the racing rule book, and usually one of the most severely punished too. The minimum punishment for the rule breach in Victoria is 6 months, a penalty which is quite consistently applied, and quite reasonably too given the gravity of the offence. Foul Driving 168(1)(f) […]
