Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What does integrity mean to you? In plain terms it means doing what is always right and in all circumstances of your life. Integrity in harness racing provides the foundation for the industry to not only survive but grow and prosper into an industry that we can all enjoy and are reliant on. This is what […]
We were wrong yesterday when we wrote that the phones of Jack Trainor, Jack Brown and James McPherson were seized after the last race. They were in fact seized before the first. HRNSW Stewards told the licensees – including the 17-year-old Brown (we said yesterday he was 16; we are advised that he recently had […]
Remember the story we wrote a fortnight ago about how Max Delight should have been disqualified from its win in the Victorian Cup after Chris Alford gained an unfair advantage by entering the sprint lane early? Well it seems the NZ Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator agrees, for a near identical incident occurred at Tuapeka on […]
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 […]
