Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The horse that goes psycho in front is trained by Mark Currie. So is the winner. There are no obvious betting fluctuations that suggest the tearaway was a pacemaker for the other, buy if I were the betting steward I’d be inspecting the multi bets and the exotics. Whichever way you view it, this is […]
For the second week in a row we’ve had to wait 5 days for the Saturday night Melton meeting Stewards Report to be published, something that we in Queensland came to accept as the norm under Chief Steward Peter ‘the Plodder’ Chadwick’s watch, but is unacceptable in every regard. When we finally do see the […]
Archie Thanks for noting the Daniel Ganderton penalty, I missed that one hidden at the bottom of a steward report rather than being a separate enquiry as it should have been. Chief Steward Bruce Free ‘Ride’ had 3 misconduct matters to deal with, and he sounded like the old broken record on each one with […]
If this protest decision in the 5th at Mackay on Tuesday wasn’t a raw prawn left out in the sun for six days, then I don’t one that was. The horse in the yellow and olive diagonal stripes beats the one in the cream and brown on its outside by a nose. A protest if […]
On one of the biggest nights of the year in Victorian harness racing, when the horses are competing to win $1.5 million in prizemoney, guess how many runners on the 12 race card were pre-race swabbed? Eleven. One per race excluding race nine, when none were. How many of Emma Stewart’s 35 runnefrs were pre-race […]
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
Take a look at the Rockhampton jump out winner in the picture above. Do you reckon that’s a chestnut filly by the name of Rosedale Miss? Or could it have been it’s stablemate Greylist, a grey gelding that won the first race at Mackay last Thursday week after being backed from $26 into $6? Note […]
On the 31st of July a chestnut gelding named Rosedale Miss trained by Tom Smith was entered in and won a jumpout at Rockhampton. The problem is that it wasn’t Rosedale Miss that ran in the trial. It was its grey coloured stablemate Greylist. Added note: Although Greylist is officially listed in the records as […]
Disgraced trot trainer Greg Bennett has lost again in his latest of a long string of attempts to regain his license, with the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal last month ruling that it has no jurisdiction to hear his attempt to appeal Harness Racing NSW’s refusal to hear his application to be relicensed, leaving him nowhere […]
