Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
New Zealand Racing Integrity Board chief Mike Clements has a real problem with his organisation, one that in the main is totally beyond his control. The problem is the adjudicators. Most of them don’t a thing about harness racing, or don’t understand it, or both. Olivia Jarvis is one of them. Jarvis a young criminal […]
There is something wrong about this race. A few things actually. I don’t know what they mean. They are just odd. I will list them by number. 1. Chris Barsby’s Call Will they catch Rancho Man? Will they catch Rancho Man? Repetition is not Chris Barsby’s go. Was this code? If so, to who? 2. […]
A week ago I wrote about the moral dilemma of bagging a race cheat who is dying of cancer. I didn’t know whether it was right or wrong. Well the race cheat has answered the question. A cheat is a cheat whether they are sick or well, and a cheat who doubles down on his […]
What a pair of numb nuts. Two thick as jockeys swapping urine in a piss test; and thinking that they are going to get away with it. It’s not the 1980’s boys. Cindy Lauper is on the pension now. Why would you do it? I know why Boutet did it, because his urine was dirty. […]
The statistical sample size is far too small to be scientific, and no doubt it is just sheer coincidence and the time of year, but the odd correlation between HRV Integrity Chief Brent Fisher’s departure from the role and the Emma Stewart stable’s loss of form has set tongues wagging around the Victorian tracks. Fisher […]
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 […]
