Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A harness racing trainer injected a horse with vodka and then tubed it on the morning of the biggest trotting day of the year as he felt “behind the eight ball”, and just wanted to do his best. Phillip Burrows was disqualified from racing for 10 years by the Judicial Control Authority on Tuesday. The Herald can […]
Philip Burrows at age 51 is now a multiple convicted drug cheat, after pleading guilty yesterday to stomach tubing one of his runners on the morning of the NZ Trotting Cup, and being given a 10-year-disqualification for his sins. If after 20 years of cheating fellow licensees, owners, punters and the sport Burrows was going […]
Thursday’s spectacular night of racing at Albion Park should have been the week’s headline act yet NSW’s Racing Appeals Tribunal stole the show on Tuesday regarding a decision on Andrew Bell’s 16 months disqualification which dates back to a Dapto 297m event in December 2021. On the night, it was found that Bell presented King […]
New Zealand driver Phil Burrows is due to face the music today for being caught doping one of horses Rakero Rebel in a race on Cup Day, ably assisted in his unlawful actions by no less that Matthew Anderson (aka Vanderklay), the disqualified fraudster, drug dealer and woman basher who was infamously supported by Harness […]
The word out of the Brekky Creek bunker is that that the Stewards in charge of the swab attendants and the pre race swabs they took on Saturday last week at Magic Millions MK1 have had a wee accident. Scott Heidke is one of them, Kim Daly is the other. It appears that the pair […]
Disgraced veterinarian Louis Grasso can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Just 18 days before he was set to begin a 50-month prison sentence for selling performance-enhancing drugs, Grasso was arraigned in a Pennsylvania court on Jan. 6 after authorities charged that he conspired with a casino employee in a scheme that netted Grasso $21,646. […]
The well known Sydney harness racing family the McDowell’s are no slouches when it comes to the training game. The family have won a host of Group 1 and other group and listed races with their horses over the years, including all the juvenile features across two states with their champion filly of the 1980’s […]
See that fella aged 50-something walking down Flinders Street in Melbourne with a big grin on his face and his tongue stuck firmly in his cheek? That’s Adam Hamilton. He doesn’t really thing that Jason Grimson is not harness racing’s most amazing trainer. Hamilton is just taking the piss. Just like you and I do, […]
Summit Bloodstock won 4 races at last night’s Hobart Cup meeting, including the big one. Three of them were very recent NZ imports trained by Emma Stewart. I wanna know how she did it. Ben Yole also trained one of Summit’s winners. I wanna know how he did it too. Here are the winners and […]
Jason Grimson has been racing a team in Victoria since the 25th of November. He has started eight horses since that time. All bar three have won. Those two are Majestic Cruiser which ran as a tired horse in the heats of ID22; Sicario, which ran a close second in the Group 2 Bendigo Cup […]
