Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This particular rule clearly contemplates and provides for alteration to the order of placings beyond the signalling of all clear. It firstly requires findings by the Stewards of a rule violation under Part 9 of the Rules against a driver before the disqualification or relegation powers can be triggered. Raceday protests as a matter of necessity […]
Josh Gallagher is about win ID21 on protest. Jason Grimson’s done the impossible. Jill has plucked a horse out of a claimer 8 months ago and won the greatest race series in the land. And Gallagher has slayed the giant – he has beaten McCarthy! He outwitted them at the start. Worked out what was […]
You’ve all read the stories about how the nicest guy in harness racing Fred Crews got expelled from the Victorian Harness Racing Club for raising what seemed to be – and are- very reasonable inquiries about how certain people were spending the member’s precious funds. Those certain people didn’t like being asked these questions, for […]
Like all the horses with the title, Illawong Stardust was named by the great harness racing man Dr Martin Hartnett, who sadly and quite unexpectedly took a trip last year to the great trot track in the sky, where he will be stands tomorrow night watching down as the 4-year-old mare owned by his beloved […]
Besides the garden wall, when stars are bright The ID trophy is in my arms The nightingale Tells his fairytale Of paradise, where roses grew, and Markovina flew. I dream it and the dream is plain In my kick all the cash will remain My Illawong Stardust melody The memory of a 100-1 ID21 winners […]
They haven’t fudged the start date on Robbie Morris’s 21 day suspension commencing immediately as of 30 November. The suspension that tipped him out of driving in rounds 2 and 3 of the heats, or should have anyway under the rules. Morris of course drove. He is ineligible to drive on finals night as well. […]
We’ve promised to buy B. Gath a decent set of threads if he follows our driving instructions to the letter in the ID21 trot final. And why wouldn’t he? After all, the geriatric old has been* is in the presence of genius. No not Tony Peacock. Me. I don’t know Tony Peacock, but they tell […]
Robert (Robbie) Morris is one of NSW’s leading reinspersons. He is also the Godson of the Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny. On Tuesday the 30th of November 2021, in the home stretch in the first race at Menangle, Robbie Morris hit the galloping mare Skyzclearnsunny that he was driving with his whip. The mare […]
On Saturday 4 December 2021, Luke McCarthy had his license to drive suspended for 7 days. Under the rules of harness racing, unless HRNSW or the Stewards deem otherwise at the time, the suspension commences from the moment that it was handed down. Luke McCarthy was ineligible to drive from that exact time on 4 […]
This is the bloke you want to say g’day to at Menangle on Saturday night It was a big day out for young Lleyton Green at Newcastle this afternoon, with the kid driving a treble for his employers Dean and Kerry McDowell at the all up odd of $26.40 for your single gold coin. Not […]
