Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
To Peter Profit Re: Hocking Gavin Lang had a long history of doing it, particularly in big races. Personally I don’t see the big deal in it. It’s not as if he has whipping them to death. But rules are rules. Copied from harness racing forum about G. Lang. Legend, Hall of Famer, saint, sinner. […]
Paul Campbell’s interview with HRV Chief Steward Peter Chadwick about the disqualification of Captain Hammerhead from the Shepparton Cup in what has become known as The Hocking incident is essential viewing for trot faNS. In it Chief Steward Chadwick details the reasons why David Moran’s horse was disqualified from the Cup and explains the rules […]
What you see above is David Moran blatantly cheating in last night’s Group 3 Shepparton Gold Cup, one of the most prestigious races on the country harness racing calendar. See Moran deliberately drop his foot? Notice how many times his boot or knee comes into contact with the hind leg of his horse. Watch how […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC07012505.mp4 We told you yesterday about how the WA Stewards had allowed Lindsay Harper to drive a horse other than the one he drives in a race at Gloucester Park last night. The horse lost, as did the one that Harpers owns and drives, but that is not the point. The point is that the […]
In February of last year Alysha Vass, the girlfriend of the now stood-down jockey Michael Poy, received a direction from Racing Victoria Stewards to make arrangements to attend an interview to be conducted by the Stewards the next week. The proposed interview that Vass was directed to attend formed part of RV’s investigation into the […]
Watch the driver of the horse one off the fence, in 4th place as the film rolls. The horse’s name is Moonlite. It’s driver is Robbie Close. Imagine that you have Moonlite to run 4th in your First 4. Keep your eyes on him as they approach the finish line. Watch closely what Robbie Close […]
The inconsequential 3-month suspension issued to a trainer for groping a young female jockey as he legged her up in the mounting yard at a recent Queensland race meeting set me to thinking about the uselessness of revoking a person’s ability to race at meetings they never would have raced at anyway. This flaw in […]
Do you remember the horse Cracker Opie that we wrote about in a story last week? The one we said was driven as dead as a maggot? Well guess what? Today we found out why it had been hooked. Cracker Opie was being set for a $25 000 Maiden, and wouldn’t be eligible if he […]
Harness Racing Victoria doesn’t say it as bluntly, but they reckon that their Integrity Team are being thwarted in their efforts to conduct without notice stable inspections by some trainers who have installed security gates with coded locks at the access points to their properties. Again they don’t say it in so many words, but […]
Something strange is going on at Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW), something very strange indeed. There are supposedly unconnected connections happening left, right and centre, and the unconnected connected people are making a motza through their unconnected connections. If you know what I mean. The law firm Pryor, Tzannes and Wallis that was formerly owned by […]
