Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the full photo that we extracted in our previous story. It appears in the latest edition of the excellent New Zealand publication Harness Xpress. You can see the footrest clearly, and see that the driver’s foot isn’t in it. Cam Hart has broken the rules. Swayzee should be disqualified from his win in […]
AUSTRALIAN HARNESS RULE 170 (1) A driver shall:- (a) throughout the course of a race, drive with both feet in the rests of the sulky, unless he is activating approved gear. (4) A driver shall not:- (a) Attempt to or allow his foot or leg to come into contact with the hind legs of the horse he is driving; (b) Attempt to or allow his foot or leg to be placed in the immediate vicinity of the hind legs of the horse he is driving. (5) A driver who fails to comply with any provision of this […]
It seems that Hunter Cup winning driver Cam Hart has a secret he has been keeping from us all. Cam isn’t short for Cameron. It stands f0r Camilla. He is a she. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Just ask HRV Chairman of Stewards Peta Chadwick.
So it’s Thursday, five days after the Ballarat Cup was run and won, and still there is no Stewards Report. Why not? QLD Stewards get their Albion Park report up on websites immediately after the meeting. This is the gold class standard. RWWA Stewards are usually the same day or next. ORI in Tasmania get […]
Dear Archie I am noticing a troubling trend in Harness meetings in Victoria in the new year, and that trend is the terribly low number of both pre race and post race swabs being taken. I note that some meetings are down to as low as 2 total pre race swabs and 3 post race […]
To Peter Profit Re: Hocking Gavin Lang had a long history of doing it, particularly in big races. Personally I don’t see the big deal in it. It’s not as if he has whipping them to death. But rules are rules. Copied from harness racing forum about G. Lang. Legend, Hall of Famer, saint, sinner. […]
Paul Campbell’s interview with HRV Chief Steward Peter Chadwick about the disqualification of Captain Hammerhead from the Shepparton Cup in what has become known as The Hocking incident is essential viewing for trot faNS. In it Chief Steward Chadwick details the reasons why David Moran’s horse was disqualified from the Cup and explains the rules […]
Alexa Well so much for Leap To Fame going to Tamworth to race in the Carnival of Cups (COC). It made for a great headline, and sent a shiver down connections of the million dollar bonus chasing Swayzee’s spine, but judging by what Kevin Seymour told Adman Hamilton earlier in the week (see below), it […]
Harness Racing Victoria must be reading our stories, for their “polite request” made last week for trainers to provide them with the access code to their security gate has now become an official Stewards direction. The reason for the change is, in our view, clearly because after reading the story we published earlier in the […]
Harness Racing Victoria doesn’t say it as bluntly, but they reckon that their Integrity Team are being thwarted in their efforts to conduct without notice stable inspections by some trainers who have installed security gates with coded locks at the access points to their properties. Again they don’t say it in so many words, but […]
