Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Something is wrong with harness racing in Queensland right now, wretchedly wrong indeed. You can see it just by looking at Grant Dixon’s results this year. The man we call Moses has won the past 6 metropolitan trainers premierships in a row. This year Moses has trained just 4 metro winners from 84 starters, at […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC16022114.mp4 I get really sick of trainers and training teams that I believe are cheating both us punters and their professional rivals by breaking the rules of racing. Why can’t these people just be honest? If they are going to do something naughty to a horse, what’s the problem with telling us all? Obviously the […]
Ben Yole is untouchable in Tasmania. He gets done, the fields drop by a third. That means that the races do too. If the number of races drop, harness racing is rooted. That’s what the authorities believe. It is not true. No man is an island unto himself. Did Victorian racing end when Darren Weir […]
An executive with a Nicholasville, Ky., company that sells “preventative and regenerative therapies” for horses was named in a federal indictment March 9 of 19 people involved in an alleged systemic and covert administration of illegal performance-enhancing drugs to racehorses. Michael Kegley Jr., director of sales at Medivet Equine, and veterinarian Dr. Kristian Rhein were […]
Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny may well live in a $3 million apartment at Harold Park that he’d acquired from the developer that the club he ran sold the land to, but Craig Cross is not the trainer of Dominate. He can’t be, for the old girl has been long dead. Craig Cross’s six […]
I am researching a story about a bum trainer from Gawler named Aaron Bain, who has come from nowhere to become one of the biggest players in four state Australian harness racing, and has a whole lot of links to horses that suddenly grow legs, and to trainers with massive question marks over them like […]
Leopards don’t change their spots, and neither do crooked vets and cheating trot trainers. Dr Ron Lloyd is a crooked vet, wretched to the core. He is disqualified from harness racing until November 2026 after returning three positive swabs in five years as a trainer. Lloyd served a year for clenbuterol – an airway opener; […]
Pearls For Tash was what we used to call in less politically correct days a poofter. It was a terrible turn of phrase when you think about it, and totally incorrect, as Ian Roberts proved. Plus she’s a mare. So in the spirit of the day, and with all due respect, I will just say […]
EPO is Erythropoietin, a hormone produced by the kidney and liver that sparks the multiplication of the the number of red blood cells in the body, horse or human. If you have more red blood cells than the bloke next to you, then you can process more oxygen than he can. That means that you […]
The battle weary 8YO pacer Readily isn’t quite what you would call a commercial proposition as a race horse. In fact he would probably be fairly described as an absolute cat. Prior to yesterday old Readily had raced 198 times around a paceway, and hadn’t won in his last 58 of them, which you would […]
