Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is a rumour floating around that Tasmanian harness racing Steward and former well known big punter Steven Shinn – he of the Bully’s Delight affair fame – may soon be returning to Queensland to take up his former role as a stipe with the QRIC. If this whisper is true – and we have […]
Knight Walker is the pacer that trainer Michael Muscat is alleged to have tubed with a milkshake, the one that returned the positive swab that has seen him stood down. If Muscat has done it, then the two questions you would have to ask are why, and how bloody bad is this horse? The other […]
We waited a week for HRNSW to say something before we told you what we knew about Michael Muscat’s positive swab, but there was a wall of silence, so a couple of days ago we gave up and ran the story. The very next day Harness Racing NSW announced what we’d known since Xmas, and […]
Why not? We’ve got them anyway, so we might as well just employ some who’d prefer to be paid in peanuts. What am I talking about? Are you a bit slow or something? Race two at Albion Park on Saturday night of course. Shane Graham – the bloke who escaped jail on criminal match fixing charges […]
Well they can’t afford the swabs you see Jeffrey This may sound incredible, but over the past 17 days the gallops Stewards in South Australia have gone seven consecutive thoroughbred meetings without pre-race blood testing a single horse. Seven in a row! Port Lincoln, Oakbank, Morphetville, Naracoorte, Strathalbyn, Port Lincoln, Murray Bridge. Exactly 50 races […]
The image you see above is the headline of a purported ‘news story’ published today on the Harness Racing Australia website www.harness.org.au, extolling the virtues of yearlings sired by Always B Miki that are being sold at the APG Gold Coast sale later this month. What it really is though is a free advertorial, however […]
An eagle-eyed reader has just pointed out an error in my earlier story about David ‘Slasher’ Moran. Slasher didn’t just get done for whip abuse in Group 1 races seven and nine at Melton last Friday, he got fined for a whip offence in the Group 1 race six too, the Group 1 3YO Vicbred […]
See that horse on the outside’s wheel, and where it is? You can’t do that. It has come straight over on top of the horse on its inside, in flagrant breach of the rules. The horse is Bondi Lockdown, and this is the Group 1 3YO Colts and Geldings Final of the Vicbred Super Series […]
The showcase night of the Victorian harness racing year ended up as nothing but a demonstration of the utter contempt that the leader of our industry hold for the welfare of our racing animals. It was an orgy of animal cruelty from whoa to go, and David Moran was one of the stars of the […]
In a further continuation of the outrageously inept integrity situation in Queensland at present, there were no swab attendants on duty at the TAB meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday. As a result no pre-race blood or any other type of swabs were taken from any runner. The only swabs taken were urine samples from […]
