Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jason Servis, for years one of the top thoroughbred trainers in the country, pleaded guilty in a New York courtroom Dec. 9 to resolve charges arising from the government’s sweeping investigation into horse doping at racetracks across the country. Servis, 65, faces four years in prison when he is sentenced May 18, 2023, in U.S. […]
Read between the lines and you will see that Adam Hamilton knows, or at least suspects. How about the irony of the US gallops trainer Servis and ID21 and 22 winner Grimson being on the same front page of a harness racing publication? Mmm. No-one ever said AdHam was a fool. All of this is […]
Last year Boncel Benjamin rose from the claimers to win the most prestigious prize in harness racing, the Inter Dominion championship. He was a champion for a night too. Ever since that win he has gone like the busted arse that he always was, Jason Grimson was proclaimed a genius, but those of us who […]
So do you want the good news, or the bad news? Let’s go good first. Emma Stewart (aka Clayton Tonkin) can only win 6 of the 10 races at Melton on Saturday night, because she is not contesting the other four. The bad news is that she can win all of the other six. She […]
Just as Bart Cockburn in QLD rolled over and sung like a canary in the ‘match fixing’ criminal cases that former QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett and his merry band of copper’s mates brought against numerous trot people, in the American FBI doping cases the trot trainer Nick Surick turned state evidence on his mates and […]
Look at the Stewards Report at the top from Mackay last week? See how there were no swabs in race 1? The reason is because the plane from Brisbane was late. WTF you ask? What’s that got to do with it? The answer should be nothing, but it seems that either the swabbie or the […]
The pre-race swabbing (PRS) regime in the Inter Dominion 2022 series continues to raise huge integrity concerns. Here are the horses that were swabbed in the pacers heats at Shepparton last night, listed according to finishing place in their heats and price. Below that are the horses that were well up in the betting market, […]
The Inter Dominion was once the jewel in harness racing’s crown, a battle of attrition contested by the best horses from across both side of the Tasman, a gruelling contest of speed, grit, stamina and guts run over 4 races in 2 weeks for the coveted prize of being acclaimed the best horse in the […]
Heat 1 There were just three runners under $10 in the market: Act Now, Expensive Ego and Mach Dan. Only one of them – the odds on favourite Mach Dan – was pre-race blood tested. Those outside the fave that were swabbed were: The Black Prince – $101.00 Focus Stride – $15.00 Crime Writer – […]
So this Central Queensland horse trainer named Ricky Gudge rocks up to the races at Mackay with a syringe and needle in his kit, and uses them to shoot his horse up with a prohibited substance just before the races. Someone dobs him in the Stewards and he gets sprung, red handed. They charge him […]
