Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Ciaron Maher trained colt Navy Pilot was a late scratching from race 5 at Doomben on Saturday due to the track downgrade from Soft 7 to Heavy 8. Local Rule 69 provides that when a horse is scratched due to the condition of the track the Stewards may impose an embargo on the horse […]
RACE 4 – THE WEST AUSTRALIAN PACE (2130MS) No racing incidents to report. No racing incidents to report? Are these WA Stewards as blind as the starter? Or are they just covering up for him? There is no way on earth this was a fair start, or should have been declared one. The quintet drawn […]
Take a look at this race above – race 4 at Bathurst last night – and ask yourself this question. What the hell was Jett Turnbull doing? The answer is easy. Trying to tank the odds-on favorite on his inside so as to get it beaten. He succeeded. It’s hard not to when you force […]
So due to a condition that Tasracing has placed on his license Wayne Yole is no longer permitted to train out of the Sidmouth dustbowl, or to keep horses there. Yole is still licensed however. All he needs to do to keep the show running is to find a suitable alternative property to house his […]
20 May 2025 Sean Carroll, Tasmanian Racing Integrity Commissioner Statement concerning the property at 117 Valley Road, Sidmouth The Tasmanian Racing Integrity Commissioner (Commissioner) has been advised that, on 19 May 2025, Tasracing issued Mr Wayne Yole, harness racing trainer, with a notice imposing a condition on his trainer’s licence that he is not permitted […]
There were two very experienced Stewards in the shape of former NZ Chief Stipe Ross Neal and ex-Gold Coast Chief Steward Paul Gillard on the panel at yesterday’s Cairns meeting. You wouldn’t have known it though by the way owner Tom Hedley and his trainers played them off a break. The two race day officials […]
See the horse that was third across the line in the trot at Albion Park on Saturday night gallop its way there? Surely it would have to be disqualified you’d think. You’d be wrong. The Stewards ruled that it had gained no advantage over the 4th horse home, and allowed it to keep 3rd place. […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
Early last year Harness Racing NSW issued this author with a legal letter in response to an article we wrote about what we perceived at the time to be vulnerabilities in the integrity of it’s swabbing procedures. In the legal letter HRNSW’s CEO Peter Buckman laid out details of how the integrity officials of the […]
Wayne and Samantha Hill (pictured above) https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC28042510.mp4 Trainer Samantha Hill had two runners in race 9 at Globe Derby yesterday. Hill drove the 2nd favorite Alleyes, her husband Wayne Hill drove the favorite Twixten. When the field settled early Twixten landed in the 1-1 on the back of Gaita Pullicino’s horse Ima Destroyer, with Alleyes […]
