Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Warning – This Stewards Report is satirical, and the events detailed in it didn’t in the main really happen. People without a sense of humor should only view when under Parental Guidance. RACE ONE – ALLIED EXPRESS PACE 2300m BLUTO NZ: When questioned about the defeat of the favorite BLUTO NZ trainer/driver B. Hewitt advised […]
We have written a lot about the failings of the Tasmanian harness stewards, but the officials at the trots are not alone. The gallops Stewards are pretty bad too. The Chief Steward Mr Bruce Free leads the way. Mr Free is best remembered as the integrity official who inspected the bullring at greyhound trainer Anthony […]
I popped into AP for a couple of races earlier this afternoon…. The first person I saw? Scott Steele, the stood down former CEO. Doesn’t he go on trial next week for sexual assault or something? This is a really bad look, just my opinion… He was wandering around the stable areas freely and taking […]
So Nick Walsh scratched his horse Hell from the suspect race in Rockhampton in which one of his other runners Fine Shot was heavily backed because Hell hadn’t recovered from a virus that struck it down a month ago did he? The same illness that resulted in the so claimed elevated temperature that caused the […]
Cameron Fitzpatrick was a star of the NSW harness racing scene in the early part of the century who by the time he reached his mid-20’s had won a Metropolitan Drivers Premiership and been awarded the prestigious Harold Park Medal, and was considered one of the top ten horseman in the industry. What no-one knew […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14062416.mp4 A number of questions arise from Peter McMullen’s drive on Antetokounmpo in the race above, which was the 8th at Albion Park on Friday night. The first is why McMullen took the 3rd favorite out of the perfect 1-1 trail and put it 3-back on the fence in a pocket instead? It was a […]
Back to yesterday’s about the ongoing rort being openly pulled by the Dunn stable in New Zealand, whose horses are falsely registered as being trained by John Dunn’s father and wife so that he can circumvent the rules about trainers driving their own horses. Well it didn’t take long for an illustration of the rort […]
So there it is. New Zealand’s premier racing writer and harness racing media identity openly admitting that the whole Robert and Jenna Dunn training set-up is a scam. Robert Dunn can’t train the largely South Island based team because he lives in the north. And Jenna Dunn doesn’t train them because she can’t. John Dunn trains […]
Michael Poy was allegedly communicating with the punter who was paying him for information on which horses to back and which ones to lay using disappearing messages on the encrypted app Signal. That sounds like an excellent idea if you are fixing races by pulling horses up, because the last think you want to do […]
HRV Stewards today concluded inquiries regarding the conduct of Trainer/Driver Robert Walters during Stable inspections on 5 October 2023 and 24 November 2023. Mr Walters was found guilty to two charges of misconduct under AHRR 231(2) the particulars of which were: CHARGE 1 Robert Walters, a licensed Trainer and Driver with Harness Racing Victoria did […]
