Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In recent months there has been a rash of poorly performing favourites in harness races in Victoria. I don’t mean favourites just being beaten, I am referring to short priced runners that are putting in runs so far below their usual standard of form that it jumps out off the page at you, and makes […]
A lot has written and said about racehorses, pacers and greyhound returning positive swabs to the insidious human drugs cocaine and methamphetamine (Ice), two illegal substances that’s use and abuse has become so widespread at all levels of our society that we are now seeing suburban housewives, footballers, high-profile lawyers, millionaire eastern suburbs housewives, politicians […]
Ellmers Image is a top class pacer trained by Amanda Turnbull that has won the 2019 Inter Dominion consolation. It has also won the Group 2 Treur Memorial and the Renshaw Cups, the Group 3 Ilsley Memorial and Mount Eden Stakes, and was runner-up in the Group 1 Bohemia Crystal Mile. Three starts ago it […]
The house of cards continues to fall in the US horse doping cases after two more of the accused changed their verdicts to guilty on Friday. Trainer Marcos Zulueta has admitted to one charge of drug adulteration and misbranding with intent to commit fraud, and faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison and […]
I make no comment upon their worth as human beings because I don’t know them, but the records show that as far as their conduct in harness racing is concerned, the current or formerly licensed Russo clan is just no good. Paul Russo is the elder statesman of the trot side of the family. Peter […]
Disgraced EPO cheat Malcolm Locke is a disqualified person. Early last week he was put out of the harness racing game for almost 20 years for injecting his horses with synthetic EPO. Locke is a known friend and associate of trainer/drivers Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainer and ‘Cool Hand’ Luke McCarthy. Trainer Peter Russo is a current […]
In August a Tasmanian harness racing trainer named Matthew Cooper was disqualified for 2 years for doping his horse Call Me Hector. There is a strong argument to say that trainer Cooper got off very light. He hit his horse with a cocktail of three different drugs, each of which were found in its system […]
The all conquering Emma Steward stable had 14 runners across five Group races for 2 and 3-year-old pacers run at Bendigo last night. Fiver were in the Victorian Oaks. They finished 1-2-3-5-7. Four were in the Derby. They ran 1-3-4-11. Three were in the 2YO Home Grown Classic for fillies. They finished 1-2-3. The remaining […]
The Trudy Cottier case in Victoria is an interesting one. Cottier is a small-time trainer based at Hamilton who has just three horses in work. None of them are champions. She has a bit of luck but not much, and her winning strike rates are about 4%, with the wins usually coming in low rated […]
On the 1st of July last year the then QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett, under concerted pressure from outspoken trainers with dubious pasts like Robert Heathcote, introduced a new policy in Queensland racing whereby the names of any horse of either code who recorded a TCO2 level of over 35 but under 36 in a swab […]
