Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As you will all recall, Tasracing wrote to you last week advising that it would not issue new warning off notices to the four participants adversely named in the Murrihy Report. We arrived at this decision after the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board overturned the racetrack bans on these individuals imposed by Tasracing in April. After […]
Stewards questioned licencee Mr Robert Walters’, concerned with evidence he had tendered at a previous licence inquiry. At the commencement of today’s inquiry Mr Walters admitted submitting to ORI falsified documents. Stewards, after investigating the circumstances into why and how Mr Walters had falsified the documents, subsequently charged him for breaching Australian Harness Racing (AHR) […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PEC13062405.mp4 Take a look at the replay above of race 1 at Penrith last night, and ask yourself this question. Was Josh Gallagher on the grey horse driving to win the race? Or was he driving to get the odds on favorite in the lead beaten? It sure looks like the latter to me. The […]
Most of us will remember Willie Wonka’s ever lasting gobstopper that he manufactured in the Chocolate Factory. The QRIC Stewards from the Home Hill meeting on the 28th of December last year obviously liked it, for they have adopted the approach when it comes to adjourned inquries. They never end. An inquiry was convened into […]
We have published a number of stories over the past few months bemoaning the reluctance of Stewards in many states to take action against horses that run up inside the marker pegs at the trots. In these stories we have repeatedly called upon the stipes to take a hard line on drivers who cheat to […]
Ben Yole has dodged the nuclear bomb by winning his appeal against being warned off for life, and now had his license back, although to date he is yet to resume training in his own name. He doesn’t need to at the moment, for Team Yole and their backers have installed bowlers in his place. […]
Have a look at the replay of the start of race 6 at Lanceston trots on Saturday night. Did you see what I saw? The horse on the outside All For Dave breaks the tape and gets a flying start. Watch it again in slow-motion. It leaves no doubt. The starter Adam Emery didn’t release […]
Its a pretty poor show of things when the Stewards allow an apprentice jockey to accept mounts without first cross-referencing their records to ensure that that the kid holds a license that permits them to do so. That seems to be what happened at Gayndah on the weekend when apprentice Ty Wheeler – who hadn’t […]
There were quite extraordinary scenes at Mildura on a Friday night, when a melee erupted over something so seemingly inn0cuous a sad face emoji on Facebook. Former trot trainer anjd convict David Vozlic – who many believe is still training by using parter Naomi Kerr as a bowler – apparently became upset after his/Kerr’s heavily […]
The majority of the Tasmanian racing industry is unhappy with the Ben Yole decision, but unlike the Greeens they aren’t putting out media releases in the wake of the judgement calling the sport that is as old as Australia itself ‘broken’ and demanding that it be shut down. That’s because unlike the Greens, racing people […]
