Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing Victoria’s website thetrots.con.au hasn’t had individual sectional times for any races in the last 2 years available for over a week. HRV says that it is experiencing technical problems that its working on fixed, whatever that means. That it hasn’t fixed the problems yet is the sort of poor effort that we’ve come […]
HARNESS RACING VICTORIA, 400 Epsom Rd, Flemington, 03 8378 0200, askhrv@hrv.org.au FROM HRV CEO MATT ISAACS Moonee Valley On October 28, The Age published a report advising of talks between Harness Racing Victoria, Moonee Valley Racing Club, and the State Government regarding the potential return of the trots to the Valley. Any talks are in their earliest stages, and […]
As strange as the news that HRV is looking to move the trots back to Moonee Valley sounds, I am assured by well-place insiders that its true. Call me a cynic if you will, but I still have extreme doubts that it will happen. For a start the Moonee Valley Racing Club have been planning […]
Emma Stewart has 7 of the 12 runners in the Derby. The most favored of them Best Deal leads off the gate. It’s stablemate Some American comes around it and crosses to the front. Storm Ryder, Miki To Success, and Bay Of Biscay sit 1-1, 1-2 and 1-3. Stewart controls the race and the pace […]
The news that Bernard Saundry is about to become the Chairman of Harness Racing Victoria comes as no surprise to readers of this website, for we told you it would happen 8 months ago. We might have shot our load early, but our aim was spot on target. Is Saundry the right man to fix […]
It seems that Bernard Saundry will be joining the board of the bedraggled HRV, possibly as Chairman with Dale Monteith said to be ending his six-year reign in the role next month and leaving no logical successor. If he does become the Chair it will be an amazing comeback by Saundry, who was CEO of […]
There is something wrong when 9 of the 17 entrants for the Victoria Cup come from just 2 stables. That’s the situation, with Jason Grimson holding 5 of the noms and Emma Stewart another four. It’s starting to sound like Waller and Maher in Sydney staying races, and sicker again at that. Add in the […]
GAMING AND RACING—GREEN LIGHT SCANDAL PENALTIES— The Hon. Mark Latham to ask the Minister for Racing— (1) Why has Ben Sarina served a permanent warning off penalty since 2012 for alleged offences in the New South Wales harness racing ‘green light’ scandal when Mr Sarina only ever faced harness racing charges, yet other participants criminally […]
No-one is saying that the VICBRED scheme has been a raging success. Stallion numbers in Victoria are down by more than a third in the past 5 years. Service numbers have dropped by almost a third in the same period. Foal numbers are 22% less than they were in 2019. By every metric the scheme […]
In a week in which the hapless Harness Racing Victoria have announced the first of what are certain to be several tranches of cuts to prizemoney and bonuses that will devastate the sport in the State, we get a vivid illustration of what ails the sport by the fields for the feature age group races […]
