Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
When the rider of a winner fails to weight in the horse has to be disqualified from the race, no ifs no buts. It’s been the way for 2 centuries. Bankrollbenny won the last race at Devonport on the 24th of April. The horse’s jockey Craig Newitt didn’t weigh in as required. As such there […]
New Zealand harness racing is quite distinct from that in Australia, in that the Kiwis put on races restricted to amateur drivers at TAB meetings, whereas over the ditch the amateurs are confined to driving in non-TAB races at the carnivals and shows, which given their skill levels – and with no knock to any […]
Des Gleeson has found that any Steward who lodges a protest shouldn’t sit in on hearing it, and the QRIC have implemented his recommendation. It sounds right doesn’t it? A Steward can’t be complainant, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner. It’s an affront to the notion of justice. In the courts anyway. But think it through […]
Chelsea Prothero, the young former Victorian driver who moved to NSW to Prothero pleaded guilty to charges that: During an interview on 11 January 2024, as part of their application to upgrade her licence from a Stablehand to a Grade B Trainer, she knowingly or recklessly furnished false information to HRV Stewards by stating that […]
A former director of the state’s peak trot racing body, who has been voted out of her job four times, wants her position back – telling a court all moves to depose her were “invalid”. Sharon Cimarosti has filed Supreme Court action against Harness Racing SA, seeking both damages and her immediate reinstatement as one […]
Riley Harrison is only a junior driver in her early 2o’s, so we shouldn’t be too harsh on her. But this drive on Helium last night at Addington was Edgar Britt, and the Steward’s actions were even worse. Harrison seemed to think she was Declan Bates on Pride of Jenni when she allowed Helium to […]
A few months back Tasmania was running 10 race cards on a Friday night, with with an average of about 11 horse fields in each race. That most of the runners were trained by Ben Yole seemed not to matter. All that was important was that the wagering turnover kept rolling in, because it was […]
We are not comfortably satisfied that the outcomes of the relevant races were in fact affected. Therefore, the cases of the Stewards succeed or fail on the “likely to affect” provision. It in turn succeeds or fails on the finding of the capacity of the jigger treatment given to the horses to affect the outcome […]
In a decision that has left many shaking their heads in disbelief, Darren Weir has escaped the serious charge of attempting to corrupt the outcome of the 2018 Melbourne Cup, with the judge in charge of the VRT – a former shareholder in horses trained by Weir – describing his use of a jigger on […]
Every horse trainer of either code in New Zealand is up in arms about the ridiculously light 4-month disqualification that the Racing Integrity Board have handed down to the animal abuser Kurtis Pertab, and quite rightly so, for this vile grub should have been banned for life for what he did, or at least outed […]
