They Are Kidding Aren’t They?
Yeah good Harness Racing Australia. Nice try. Ever heard of a VPN? You won’t be blocking me boys and girls. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Consider yourself skinned.
If It Ain’t Broken, Don’t Fix It
Why the hell do some people keep trying to fix things that aren’t broken? The Auckland Trotting Club tried to become property developers so that it could ‘secure the future of harness racing’, which was already sitting pretty and travelling well. Instead they sent the sport into the abyss, and their club and track with […]
We’re All Just Animals
A rolling pole burr with copper points (pictured) Industry Notice- Banned Gear and Equipment 27 January 2026 | Harness Racing Australia Harness Racing Australia (HRA) wish to advise that, following a national review involving stewards from all six states, it has been determined that the following item of equipment is to be placed on the […]
I Don’t Think So
I wish I could have got $263.40 about Siangdi in the last at Gloucester Park last night. It would have been the overs of the century, Siangdi started at $3.20. Go HRA. There is nothing like a control body on the ball.
A Trinkle Tinkle National Ratings System – Not One That Many Would Call Fair
There is no better example of the vagaries of the National Ratings system employed in harness racing and its inherent unfairness than the first race yesterday at Menangle. It was trotters race for square gaiters rated up to NR 55, and the field it threw up was a dog’s breakfast. At one end of the […]
Welcome Richard Goodbody – The Man Who Might Axe the Tax
peterprofit.com welcomes the news of the appointment of journalist and Racing QLD executive manager of Communications and Corporate Affairs Richard Goodbody as the replacement for Andrew Kelly in the role of CEO of Harness Racing Australia. We don’t know a lot about Richard, but those who have worked with him at RQ and at the […]
Its Time to Change the Name of The Eureka – Lets Call it The Emma Instead
After the result on Saturday night Harness Racing NSW might want to perhaps consider renaming The Eureka, and call it The Emma instead. It would be a fitting title for the race that Stewart has dominated in the three years it has been held. She won the first running of the Eureka with Encipher, and […]
The Hanging State
We have written a number of times previously about the manifest inequities in penalties between NSW and the rest of the nation for trainers whose horses throw positive swabs to cobalt, and the decision in the case of Menangle based trainer Tony Bertwistle provides another vivid highlighting of the issue. Tony Bertwistle, a former Lone […]
The Eureka Stockade Mach II Claims it’s First Victim as HRA CEO Walks the Plank
We warned you three months ago that just like the Ballarat miners of old, standardbred breeders were rising up in unity against the levies imposed by Harness Racing Australia purportedly to fund the Eureka, and the modern stockade of horseman would see the end of the race after this year. The divisions over the issue […]
Told You So
A lot of people poo-pooed us when we told you recently that the Harness Racing Australia database HARVEY had been hacked. Has HARVEY Been Hacked? They are laughing on the other side of their faces now. This below is a release issued by HRA yesterday. You always hear it here first. ———————————————————— Cyber Incident Temporarily […]