Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Watch this. It’s the last 250m of the Group 1 Victoria Cup on Saturday night, replicated directly from the official replay of the race published on the Harness Racing Victoria and Harness Racing Australia websites. What you are seeing is the fastest 250m ever run in the entire world history of harness racing. It will […]
See that red post in the picture? That is a marker post that the start of the sprint lane. This is a still frame of the field at the top of the home straight as they prepare to charge to the line in the $300 000 Group 1 Victoria Cup, worth $171 000 to […]
This is not Chris Alford’s fault, and is probably just coincidence all round, but literally two seconds after he had breached the rules by entering the sprint lane early on Max Delight, driver Josh Aiken on Malcom’s Rhythm appears to look momentarily to his right to see what is coming down the outside, and then […]
We all know now that Ben Currie’s internal review of the decision to deny him his trainer’s license back after serving his time for racing rule breaches has failed. The QRIC maintain it’s stance that a young man aged 30 should be thrown out of the sport for life on spurious grounds, even though he […]
Last week an English trainer named Johnny Farrelly was permanently excluded – warned off – from racing after being found guilty of sexually abusing a 19-year-old apprentice jockey under his control and care. To protect the identity of the victim the reasons for his exclusion were suppressed, but that is what they are. The Australian […]
I was a union official in a former life, and during that time I dealt with literally hundreds of cases in which workers were accused of serious misconduct by their employer. Without exception each of those who were found guilty of the allegations were summarily dismissed, meaning they were sacked on the spot. It’s the […]
We all know about Ben Currie and why he got disqualified. His stable staff administered boost paste – a totally legal sold over the counter at Garrards Horse and Hound amino acid tonic, with huge therapeutic and health benefits – to a horse named Eight Over on the morning of a race, which was in […]
Well here we were after Saturday night thinking that we’d ushered in a new era of intelligent Stewarding in NSW. How foolish we were. It wall just an illusion, an mirage in a syringe filled desert drenched with drugs. Targeted, effective and efficient swab sampling is one of the keys to overcoming the corruption crisis […]
This is the worst Steward’s decision in the world, and the dodgiest one too. A teenage kid claims more allowance on runners at a non-TAB meeting than he is entitled to, by mistake. The mistake is not his, it is the Stewards. The Chief Steward had issued an edict some time back decreeing that apprentices […]
How does this work? Four horses get beaten 45 metres or more in the last race at the Hobart trots on Sunday night. Three of them are trained by Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole, the man who kills horses and then gets them cut up to be fed to dogs. One of them, Keep Playing, got beaten […]
