Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What a great night of racing it was at Melton on Saturday night, all the fun of the fair. The Derby heats were just fab. Here is how they rolled. HEAT ONE – DERBY The first heat was always going to be a very tactical affair after the top two fancies Hesitate and Fox Dan […]
We have written a number of times previously about the manifest inequities in penalties between NSW and the rest of the nation for trainers whose horses throw positive swabs to cobalt, and the decision in the case of Menangle based trainer Tony Bertwistle provides another vivid highlighting of the issue. Tony Bertwistle, a former Lone […]
Ben Xiriha is a licensed Grade A Victorian trot driver. He posted this on his public Facebook page. The “weak gutless piece of shit” that he is referring to is an individual Steward. “You cunts” that he refers to telling last time are the Stewards collectively. Oh dear. Methinks Ben Xiriha just booked himself a […]
See Young Bluey storm up the sprint lane to finish 2nd in the first race at Melton on Saturday night? Now look at this. Young Bluey runs over one peg and inside three. When he goes inside the second peg half of his body is inside the marker line. His driver Matt Craven has taken […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
It’s now more than a week since the meeting at Melton on the 10th of April at which a young 3-year-old horse dropped dead mid-race and another went crazy and almost put driver Anthony Butt in wheelchair for life, and still no official Stewards Report from the meeting has been published. “Why not?” you have […]
A team of Stewards and vets turned out in force at the Mildura trots last month to conduct a surprise race night swabbing blitz. Three Stewards accompanied by four vets rocked up to the track on a Wednesday night and pre-race swabbed 88 of the 89 runners on the program, with the only horse that […]
Here are two different views from readers about the Boort Cup fiasco on Sunday. It seems that there is more to the whole thing than meets the eye. Hi Archie, Just reading your post on the Boort Cup, perhaps stewards have taken no action against Ewa Justice as they belatedly realised the sprint lane they […]
Below is the Stewards report into Collective Works disqualification from its win in Sunday’s Boort Cup (see earlier story). What is quite amazing about the whole thing is that while the horse was disqualified because its driver Ewa Justice broke the rules, Justice herself was not charged with any offence despite having already been ruled […]
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 […]
