Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There has been further news out of Menangle about the phone seizures by Stewards on Saturday night, and it is not good. It seems that the two licensees other than Jack Trainor whose phones were taken under the extraordinary powers invoked by the Stewards were James McPherson and Jack Brown, and that they were compulsorily […]
A horse named Rushford was backed from $7 into $4.80 in the 5th race at Yarra Valley on Saturday afternoon. Another runner in the race Southern Native was backed from $9.50 into $6.50. The favourite is Valley of Hearts, which has been steady in the market at $3.60 Liam Riordan is riding a $31 outsider […]
The Harness Racing Victoria Stewards – led by former NSW Chief Grant Adams -have a problem with Jack Laugher’s drive on the $1.35 favourite Ozzie Playboy at Mildura a fortnight ago. Can anyone blame them? Not for that, but we all can for what happened after the race. Here’s how things rolled. Laugher was slow […]
Charlton. 27 September 2021. Jayden Brewin is driving the 2 horse. Brewin is known punter who is currently up on charges for betting in races that he drove in. He has also just been suspended for stealing money out of his colleagues wallets in the drivers room while they were out driving in races. Just […]
A week ago we told you about the deeply crooked trot driver Peter Russo having thrown up yet another positive swab to TCO2. Old habits die hard, but Russo didn’t have any Stewards to bribe this time. A week after the story broke, he has been stood down. No stays for you Russo. Good on […]
What the hell did driver Richard Williams hope to achieve by attacking the odds on favourite Asterism with his $23 shot Famous Three in the 6th race at Tamworth last night? Was he deliberately driving his horse not to win, but to get the short-priced favourite beaten? It sure did look like it to me. […]
In recent months there has been a rash of poorly performing favourites in harness races in Victoria. I don’t mean favourites just being beaten, I am referring to short priced runners that are putting in runs so far below their usual standard of form that it jumps out off the page at you, and makes […]
The QRIC has just posted full details of the reason that jockey Paul Randall had been disqualified for 18 months, and I have to say that what this senior rider did was despicable, and that he should he should have been warned off for life. The incident that lead to Randall’s disqualification occurred at the […]
A lot has written and said about racehorses, pacers and greyhound returning positive swabs to the insidious human drugs cocaine and methamphetamine (Ice), two illegal substances that’s use and abuse has become so widespread at all levels of our society that we are now seeing suburban housewives, footballers, high-profile lawyers, millionaire eastern suburbs housewives, politicians […]
I make no comment upon their worth as human beings because I don’t know them, but the records show that as far as their conduct in harness racing is concerned, the current or formerly licensed Russo clan is just no good. Paul Russo is the elder statesman of the trot side of the family. Peter […]
