Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A gold star to the HRV Stewards for smarts. They keep the two greatest champions of the modern era under all day watch, but don’t do the same to any of Jason Grimson or Emma Stewart’s. I get that they were trying to protect their employer’s bonus, but as HRV have told us a million […]
So Jason Lee drove two horses in the Southern Star final last night, and Glen Craven drove a pair too. It would be a bloody amazing feat wouldn’t it? So would Harness Racing Australia getting it right. No need to be accurate. It was only a Group 1. Puh-lease.
There was huge controversy after the Hunter Cup when the judge declared Leap To Fame ran second. The Kiwis in the Republican Party team objected. Who could blame them? Their horse looked to the naked eye to have run second for sure. It went to the Stewards room. Finally after a long delay the stipes […]
I’ve known James Herbertson’s grandfather Geoff ‘Mick’ Clover for donkey’s years, way back to the days when my Mum and Dad used to have a beer with him after the Albion Park trots with him when I was a kid, and I love the bloke. The reason why is because he was (and remains) a […]
Leap To Fame is magic, because he has brought people back to harness racing, who for a long time have been lost. Immediately after Larry’s magnificent win in the Cranbourne Cup I received a barrage of messages, many of them from gallops and greyhound people who wouldn’t have watched a trot race for years. They […]
Archie and I have been discussing lately how epic the talent that’s here and NZ. It’s truly an era my romanticism recognises from 40 plus years ago. I have always had Popular Alm on a pedestal and make no apologies for it. There were probably better horses in the last 40 years so I’m not […]
Can anyone tell me how HRV CEO Matthew Isaacs assertion that HRV is turning a profit this year can possibly be correct? I am not saying that Isaacs is being untruthful, not at all. All I’m suggesting is that his projections are overly optimistic HRV might be in front at the moment of it has […]
They must have taught maths differently at HRV CEO Matthew Isaacs school than they did at mine in Geebung, because his calculations make no sense to me. Isaacs says that HRV have had roughly a $3o million improvement on last year GARETH HALL: “So you’ve gone from a $26 million loss to …. what did […]
Harness Racing in Victoria is in an awful mess. Years of poor governance and management, featuring prizemoney raised to levels during the COVID-19 betting boom that could never be sustainable, a bloated bureaucracy at all levels, and non-racing expenses ballooning out of control, has left the sport all but destitute and forced to surrender the […]
Harness Racing Victoria talks a lot about its HERO rehoming program, but tells us very little. How many retired pacers and trotters a year does HERO rehome? Who knows? The annual report of HRV doesn’t tell us, and neither does either their own website thetrots.com.au or the HERO website hrvhero.com.au. All we know is that […]
