Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing Australia’s silence on the continuing employment of Scott Steele at the Albion Park club has been deafening. This is the peak body of a sport that, despite various waves of discrimination, has been trailblazer for the participation of women. As long ago as 1917 women were driving against and beating men, although it […]
Harness Racing Australia are introducing an across the board levy on Stallions service fees. The figure has not been publicly released yet, but it’s likely to be in the range of 10-15 percent. A large part of the revenue raised is to be redirected to funding a new slot race, which is odd because most […]
Last month Harness Racing NSW endorsed some rule changes made by Harness Racing Australia, and gave them the force of law. We have given some of the new rules nicknames. Here they are. The Josh Gallagher Rule Disqualification Add new Rule 66(i) 66. A horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole winning the Australian Trainer’s Premiership tell us all we need to know about the current state of harness racing outside of Victoria, and to a degree (a small degree) Western Australia. That a bozo from Tasmania who couldn’t train a rat to run up a drain pipe can be crowned the King […]
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 […]
