Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
This morning we published a story about the protest in the last race at Kilmore last night. In the story we were critical of the decision of the HRV Stewards to relegate the winner, suggesting that they had forgotten that the Lapped On rule had been repealed, and describing the relegation as a joke. Well […]
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 […]
