Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hong Kong Our mate Lucky Lingard on his ever impressive website letsgohorseracing.com.au has highlighted James McDonald’s ride on Romantic Warrior in the Group 1 Champions and Chater Cup at Sha Tin last week, and called it into question. In support of his proposition that J-Mac was let off light Lucky has reproduced the thoughts of […]
Prominent harness racing trainer Nigel McGrath granted ‘partial return’ to industry after cheating ban Story by Sam Sherwood, Radio New Zealand; 16 June 2025 At the last Harness Racing New Zealand AGM a rule change was passed allowing any banned party to apply for an exemption if they have served at least half of their […]
The two men you see in the picture are the at the time CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand Brad Steele (BS) on the left in the bomber jacket, and Nigel McGrath, the disqualified serial drug cheat that the HRNZ board under Steele’s leadership changed the rules to allow to participate in the sport despite […]
Can anyone tell me what Matt Elkins did different in this race at Albion Park yesterday to Angus Garrard than what Garrard did to Elkins in the race that we wrote about at the same track on Saturday night? It looked exactly the same to me. The outcome was different though. No action was taken […]
Luckie Karabitsakos in a Melbourne Cup winning greyhound trainer who has had an enormous amount if success. He is also a performance enhancing substance cheat and a personal user of illicit drugs, which when added to his already volatile character makes him a hothead and a quite difficult cat to deal with. Justice John Bowman […]
Trot trainer Scott Garraway’s horse threw 17 positive swabs to cobalt, with some of the readings as high as 1300 ug/ml, which is extraordinary when you consider that the threshold is 100 ug/ml. What is even more extraordinary is that after his first positives came back from the lab, the trainer was given the option […]
This is bullshit. For the second time in three starts the Cran Dalgety trained All Of Me went like a broken down bus at Alexandra Park last night, finishing tailed out over 100m in last place. A vet exam replete with an endoscopy revealed no obvious issues. They may not be obvious to the vet, […]
I have problems with Stewards whose judgement is so poor that they friend racing licensees on Facebook. In my opinion it shows a clear lack of judgement, and failure to understand clear lines. Alex Streckbein chaired the meeting at Warwick yesterday. He is former Racing Victoria Steward of limited experience, who has obviously been appointed […]
Dashing was the $2.60 favorite to win the 6th race at Albion Park on Saturday night. If he had been driven properly he probably would have won it too. But Nathan Dawson didn’t drive him properly at all. He drove the favorite in a manner that looked for all appearances like he wanted it to […]
The time honored Hobart Cup was run on the 8th of February over 2363m. It was supposed to have been run over 2400m, but the track staff stuffed up and put the starting stalls in the wrong place. The Starter knew about the mistake prior to the jump and told the Chief Steward, but the […]
