Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In the last week, Rolling Stone magazine has said about Donald Trump that he has become the mother of all pop-culture villains, a globally despised cross of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Charlie Sheen and Satan. No one wants to be seen as some kind of cartoon villain. Is it any wonder then, that Danny Nikolic has sought to explain his own […]
Watch the horse out the back in the yellow colors, the one drawn on the outside of the 2nd row from the start, the mark they call the unruly. This is supposed to be a standing start. For that horse it turned out to be a flyer. Since when were they allowed to run at […]
Emma Stewart trained four odds-on favorites at Menangle last night. Extraordinarily not one of them was pre-races swabbed. Admittedly her Oaks winner Very Pretty ($1.09) and Queen Elizabeth II Mile runner-up Ladies in Red ($1.75) had been in the retention barn up to 2 hours before their races, but to imagine that stops a determined […]
A picture says a thousand words. That mean a video says a hundred thousand. I wish Chynna was my daughter. Not. Her poor parents. Say no more. We got rich yesterday 🤑 head to the link in my bio for my tips 😘 pic.twitter.com/fJNKM3uWhd — Chynna (@chynna_marston) May 2, 2024
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 […]
