Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Have you noticed the number of heavyweight jockeys who are riding a whole lot lighter lately? Some who had to give up the game after losing the battle with weight are even coming out of retirement to return to race riding. We won’t list them by name because we empathize with their struggles, but we […]
WA trot trainer Michael Young has recorded a winning strike rate of 19% for the past two seasons. Then Santa came and left the gift of magic under Young’s Xmas tree. Now he is training winners at 41%. Young has won 15 races from his past 25 starters. That’s Jason ‘the GOAT’ Grimson like. I […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM25012501.mp4 When Hot And Treacherous won 1st-up for new trainer John Livingstone in late November, we all thought for a fleeting moment that the former Kiwi pacer had reversed the long running trend of horses being ruined as racing propositions when they leave Jason Grimson’s care (if you call it that). Sadly were wrong. Hot […]
Do you remember that Kiwi clown called Mark Jones? It’s okay if you don’t, because he’s not very memorable. Jones is the South Island trainer who threatened to sue us a year or back after we wrote a story featuring him that the poor precious dear didn’t like. He even went so far as to […]
Te Aroha trainer Shane Simon says he doesn’t have a problem with meth (known as P or Ice). No-one but him believes it. In November last year Simon threw a personal positive to the insidious, evil drug that has wrecked families and communities. He pleaded guilty of a breach of the prohibited substance rule, and […]
In late 2023 the trotter Melpark Magic was disqualified from its win in a race in January after throwing a positive swab to the anti-inflammatory drug Flunixin. That sounds pretty standard, except for just one thing. According to the official Harness Racing Australia records which are based on information provided by the States the horse […]
Riverina based trot trainer Phillip Martin has been disqualified for 9 years after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the powerful anaesthetic 3-hydroxybupivacaine after a recent win at Albury. Mr Martin is obviously a slow learner. It was his sixth positive swab. If brains were dollars some people would be bankrupt. Phillip Martin would […]
What you see above and below are the first two pages of the transcript of secretly recorded 2011 discussions between corrupt NSW harness racing Stewards Paul O’Toole and Matthew Bentley (now deceased). In beknown to O’Toole, Bentley had rolled over on him in return for an indemnity from prosecution and is wearing a wire. The […]
The proposed measures contained in Racing NSW Strategic Plan 2024-2027 to be introduced to combat the scourge of drug cheating in racing should fill lovers of clean racing’s souls with joy, and strike fear into the hearts of the scoundrels. Racing NSW has set the pace among Australian racing jurisdictions in recent years on drug […]
Developing a world leading racing laboratory As a department of Racing NSW, the primary role of the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory (ARFL) is to provide accurate and independent analytical services to Racing NSW Stewards to assist in upholding the relevant rules pertaining to prohibited and therapeutic substances in the sport of Thoroughbred racing. Applying the […]
