Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The betting has opened on the Geelong Cup and Minos is the early $1.85 favorite on the TAB, probably because gun reinsman James Herberton has been declared its driver. But Houston, we have a problem. Herbie is not driving at Geelong on Saturday night, he is driving at Globe Derby in the Australian Drivers Championship. […]
Victorian harness racing is in a crisis beyond compare. Cuts to spending need to be made, and the cost of meetings rationalised. The immediate way to do it is by closing tracks. As much as traditionalists and industry stalwarts may hate the thought, it’s obvious that you need to knock out Ouyen, Boort, Birchip, Wangaratta, […]
As we tipped you earlier in the week, just weeks after extolling his own and the organization’s (debatable) achievements at Harness Racing Victoria’s annual presentation, CEO Matt Isaacs is leaving the building. The official reason given is that Isaacs has decided not to renew his contract, as he has decided that now is the best […]
HRV CEO Matt Isaacs told attendees at the organization’s annual presentation held at Bendigo last week that harness racing only gets 3 cents in every dollar that is bet the sport. What he said though is not quite true. In fact it is not true at all. Wagering Service Providers – bookmakers or the TAB […]
HRV CEO Matt Isaacs doesn’t even know how to manage a microphone (see above), so how the hell can he manage building and growing the sport in the State? As far as I can see, he can’t. Isaacs only solutions to the dilemma’s facing the Victorian trots seem to be reducing the number of races, […]
When you have three minutes spare take a look at the excerpt below from CEO Matt Isaacs address to Victorian harness racing industry participants at last week’s HRV annua presentation. Isaacs says that he and his HRV Chairman Bernard Saundry are meeting with the leaders of Harness Racing NSW to reshape the businesses, and says […]
I listened to an interview re Melton this morning. It’s clearly history. Moonee Valley is not an option, it’s a waste of anyone’s time that they even talked about it. They’ll go to Bendigo I reckon, which is crown land, once the government gives them a portion of the Melton money. It’ll be a pittance […]
The poor old Weidenbach family has been in the wars lately. Olivia got tied up with the Ford’s in Tasmania, and copped a criminal conviction and an 18 month DQ. Dumb young silly kid, who like all of us in our immaturity made a bad mistake. The problem is that by doing so she drew […]
Trot trainer Scott Garraway’s horse threw 17 positive swabs to cobalt, with some of the readings as high as 1300 ug/ml, which is extraordinary when you consider that the threshold is 100 ug/ml. What is even more extraordinary is that after his first positives came back from the lab, the trainer was given the option […]
It was Boort Cup day on Sunday, and a great day of harness racing it was in the main indeed. But there were two major blights on an otherwise fantastic card. Races 6 and 8. Each was run for prizemoney of a miserable $4000, with just $2000 to the winner. The worst races at Burnie […]
