Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hi Peter, Comments on protected species. In the late fifties and throughout the sixties Alby Holberton (trainer) /Jack Butler (chief steward) did to South Australian trots what the Ben Yoles, Emma Stewarts, Peter Tonkin (the godfather) and Clayton Tonkin (convicted of blue magic use) have done to the game in the modern age in other […]
Emma Stewart won 8 races from 10 last night at Melton, including 7 of the 8 Breeders Crown semi-finals and the 4YO Mares final. In fact the only 2 races she didn’t win were the 4YO Entire and Geldings Final and the second semi final of the 2YO Colts and Geldings, the former because her […]
The word is that the Emma Stewart race day treatment before the Maryborough Cup matter went before the HRV Stewards for hearing on penalty this week. To date there has been no information released about the matter by HRV, and quite surprisingly we haven’t heard a word about the outcome either. We can only hope […]
https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/articles/camp-quality-a-big-winner-as-andy-takes-out-charity-challenge/ The Harness Charity Challenge is a wonderful concept that helps raise much needed funds for worthy charities, and the organisers deserve congratulations and applause for their unpaid efforts in organising and running the competition, which is basically a tipping contest centred on competitors paying $250 to buy in to play, and then betting imaginary […]
Up until a couple of weeks ago the Melton harness track was known as Tabcorp Melton Park to reflect the long standing sponsorship arrangement between the TAB owner and the club. Now suddenly without any fanfare the track’s become known as the Melton Entertainment Centre. What’s happened here? Tabcorp have clearly pulled out of being […]
If you have then you are seeing things that no-one else can. It took HRV Chief Steward Peter ‘the Plodder’ Chadwick about ten days to put up the report from the semi-finals. N0w almost a week later the report from the finals is still nowhere to be seen. There is a real problem in Victorian […]
TCO2 Questions and Answers INTRODUCTION In a natural habitat a horse forages for grasses, hay etc which contain elements of sodium, bicarbonate and many other substances. One combination gives a horse an endogenous level of sodium bicarbonate and as a final simplified result thereof a horse has a natural level of TCO2 when tested. This natural […]
Administering substance 196. (1) The Controlling Body may make determinations concerning the feeding, injecting, inserting or otherwise administering substances or prohibited substances to a horse. (2) A person who fails to comply with a determination made under sub-rule (1) is guilty of an offence. 196A.(1) A person shall not administer or cause to be administered […]
The picture speaks for itself. Doesn’t it? IV drips are normally used to administer bleeder drugs, or to be more precise anti-bleeder drugs. Horses who are over worked on steroids or peptides usually bleed in races because they are running beyond their clean capacity. The IV infusion if the bleeder shot is to prevent it […]
No doubt the harness media who are on the payroll of either HRV, or certain trainers, owners or breeders will wax lyrical about the Emma Stewart stable getting 27 runners in the 72 horse fields for next week’s rich Group 1 Breeders Crown finals, and for sure they will be acclaiming her 9 wins in […]
