Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The word floating around the trot tracks is that there are two, perhaps three, major stables that have been offered indemnities against prosecution if they tip the bucket on others who have been buying and using performance enhancing drugs in Australian racing. At least one of the names is a Kiwi living and working in […]
Those tricky buggers from Harness Racing NSW have spliced the film so you can’t see it and I can’t show you, so you will have to rely on my accuracy and honesty here rather than evidence of your own eyes I am afraid. Trust me though, what I am about to tell you is 100 […]
Dear Andrew Please find below my submission regarding the proposed Pinnacle slot race. 1. I support the concept generally and enthusiastically. 2. I support the proposed date of March/April. 3. I support the race being held over a middle distance. 4. I support the race being restricted to Australian born horses. 5. I support the bonus for […]
As mentioned earlier in the week, Harness Racing Australia has released what it calls a ‘Concept Paper’, in which it proposes a bastardised version of the Everest. The idea is a $2 million race for 3 and 4-year-old pacers who are born in Australia. $1 million of the prizemoney will be raised by leasing the […]
John Lennon imagined. Martin Luther King had a dream. Harness Racing Australia has a concept. Or at least that is what we are told. The concept this A $2 million slot race called the Pinnacle, a word which means among other things an upright architectural member generally ending in a small spire and, used especially […]
Harness Racing Australia are slow learners. It absolutely ballsed up it’s first attempt to impose a levy on ‘imported’ stallions, and was forced to back down. We all knew it was only temporary, and that the tax on foreigners who don’t use Australia as a tax haven was coming again, and for five minutes the […]
We are going to write at length about Harness Racing Australia’s new ‘Advance Australia’ concept paper released today, and examine the issue from both the for and against sides. Just for now though we want to alert you to the politics of the issue. Harness Racing Australia is governed by votes, as detailed in the […]
The Harness Racing Australia board (known under the articles of association as the ‘Council’) has 12 members. Six are the harness racing Controlling Bodies (Principal Racing Associations, or ‘PRA’s) from each State, who get two votes as follows: Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW)- 2 Harness Racing VIC (HRV) – 2 Racing QLD (RQ) – 1 Qld […]
Have you ever heard of a winner at the trots paying $881? Until yesterday I hadn’t either. This is the winner of race 3 at Globe Derby. I reckon it would be a world record. If it wasn’t a misprint. Doh!
They are no fun at all these HRA board members. Just when a bloke like Turbo spots a good and totally legal money making scheme, the stuffy shirts at HRA go and shut it down. It’s outrageous. What I am talking about is the newly introduced amendment to the National Ratings System applying to horses […]
