Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Gold Coast racehorse trainer Les Kelly, winner of 3 of the past 5 premierships on the Glitter Strip, had two horses throw positive swabs to EPO in the rich Ramornie Handicap at Grafton last year. After an interminable and quite inexplicable delay in finalising the matter, Kelly was last month handed out an 18 month […]
Rising star young trainer Cameron Ross, who recently moved over the desert to set up a training base with his true love and fellow trainer Jocelyn Young in Perth, has been stood down from all forms of racing across Australia by HRNSW Stewards after one of his winners in Sydney in February threw up a […]
Every person in the harness racing world suspects that Jason Grimson is doing some sort of drug cheating. Unless you accept that Grimson is the greatest trainer that the world has ever seen, how else can the outrageous form reversal of Swayzee be explained? So during the week the Stewards go out to his temporary […]
Watch these two races. The first is a very weak up to NR70 race at Redcliffe two months ago. Swayzee is the horse in the white and the maroon colors. It goes like a busted arse. https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/REC06042302.mp4 Swayzee gets bought by clients of Jason Grimson after that run, and is transferred to his stable. Two […]
Jack Callaghan’s was the drive of the race, not that of Grant Dixon. Callaghan sucked Dixon into doing exactly what he wanted him to do. Just when it looked as if Dixon was for sure going forward, Callaghan offered him the easy option of a nice spot in the line. It was a bit like […]
I Cast No Shadow emerged from the obscurity of the claimers to win the Len Smith Mile last year in 1.48.8, and in the next 100 days went on to win Inter Dominion and run 2nd in the Hunter Cup. If you hadn’t seen Boncel Benjamin do the same thing when it won ID21 you […]
What you see below is an extract from a 280 page 2018 report into integrity in Australian sport. The report focused on human athletes, but horses are mammals too and it equally applies. It goes some way toward explaining the genius of Jill Grimson I am sure. Note the Clenbuterol reference. 6.1 PERFORMANCE AND IMAGE […]
The Racing Appeals Panel were kind enough to give old Alan Donohoe – the once young man who drove the great QLD pacer of the 1970’s Peter Profit, after whom this site is named – a stay of proceedings 0n his 6 month DQ for hitting his horse The Hummer with painkillers. What’s hilarious is […]
Patrick Swayzee, the Jill Grimson of harness racing If anyone had told you 3 months ago after he ran last beaten 35m in a weak NR70 race at Redcliffe that Swayzee would win the Group 3 Mr Feelgood beating the best Open Class horses from 3 different states, you would have smiled and nodded and […]
