Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 31st of August 2022, and then again on the 9th of December 2022, without any fanfare at all or public any public statement about the matter, Harness Racing Australia repealed the racing rules that required owners of horses to notify either they or the State Controlling Body – or both – that a […]
This is the list of supposed currently suspended drivers published on harnessweb, a site run by Harness Racing Australia. Sharyn Slater’s name should not be on it. Her career ended in 2005 after a horrific accident on the track at Carrick. Sadly in 2017 Sharyn died. It’s not very respectful having her name published on […]
The ABC expose of Ben Yole’s nefarious activities is the biggest scandal in harness racing for a decade. And it has only just begun. Yole’s animal welfare abuses are the subject of episodes in the locker that will be released over the coming days and weeks. His abuses of humans will feature too. This is […]
George Fiacchi was appointed by the SA Government as its general to launch a war against Globe Derby. Fiacchi’s mission was to take on the club and take over their SA trot citadel, then strip it bare and sell everything that it owned to the favoured bidder. We told you this three years ago, and […]
See the name of the company that got given the Eureka website job? Paul Kelly Creative. It’s a common name Kelly, so of and in itself it wouldn’t mean anything. Maybe it doesn’t. But maybe it does. Paul Kelly Creative is based in Geelong. Guess where Andrew Kelly grew up? Geelong. Guess where they both […]
And the winner is ……… the person we should have been looking at the whole time, the best qualified man for the job; by quality, character and experience. Who would John Dumesny replace himself with? It’s easy when you think about. JD would replace himself with JD. Remember the Eureka? It was Kevin Seymour’s idea, […]
Can anyone on earth tell me why Harness Racing Australia CEO Andrew Kelly gets paid a total salary package of almost half a million dollars a year? What does he actually do? I know that that Kelly sells slot race concepts to already wealthy breeders. And that he upsets breeders by picking their pockets of […]
Now I am not a lag by nature, and don’t believe in dogging people at all. But when they are a pair of K. Hunts that I don’t know who go around smashing horses with hammers I reckon the rules are different, particularly when I live too far away from them to have a quiet […]
Harness Racing Victoria’s website is the trots.com.au HRV is hosting the 2022 Inter-Dominion. It’s in right now, the first heats were run last Saturday. What a great opportunity to promote the state and the sport. And we get this. Good onya HRV. Bewdy.
Part 2 Offences 5 Cruelty to animals (1) A person shall not commit an act of cruelty upon an animal. (2) A person in charge of an animal shall not authorise the commission of an act of cruelty upon the animal. (3) A person in charge of an animal shall not fail at any time— (a) to exercise […]
