Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cherries On Top was probably a false favorite at $2.25 to win race 6 at Albion Park yesterday. The filly was drawn well in 2 but is a slow beginner, and was up in class. But based on her two recent wins at Redcliffe punters had a right to believe that she would be driven […]
Yet another QLD racing licensee has been outed for submitting a falsified annual Health Assessment Report (HAR), but this time it is a driver at the trots not a jockey. Heather Warland, until last week the holder of a C-Grade harness racing drivers license that permitted her to drive in trackwork and trials but not […]
Gaita Pullicino (right) with husband and ‘trainer’ Frank In a letter we published by Ted From Tooleybuc (the letter was real, as is our usual practice only the name was changed) about Gaita Pullicino’s drive at Globe Derby on Sunday, Ted made certain statements that are not quite accurate. Ted said that: Its interesting that […]
The QRIC has issued an industry notice telling us who can and can’t punt, or to more precise just who can’t. None of these people listed are allowed to have a bet at a race meeting that they are working at: Steward Veterinary Surgeon Handicapper Judge Starter Clerk of the Course or Clerk of the […]
QLD jockey Amy Graham was charged by Stewards with one count of damaging the image of racing by snorting coke while jockey Casey Waddell who she thought was a mate was filming it on her phone, and another count of lying to Zim (QRIC Steward Paul Zimmerman) about who else was there on the toot […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC21112514.mp4 You have never seen a more obvious team drive in your life than the one Team Dixon pulled in the $100 000 Sunshine Stars 3yo Classic at Albion Park on Friday. It was disgraceful. As you will learn later the Stewarding was worse. Grant Dixon trained 6 of the 10 runners in the race. […]
We all know that New Zealand is a clean, green country. It’s water is clean, it’s air is fresh and unpolluted, and its forests are lush. Everything about the country except the wages is pristine. Even the horse racing. There are no bicarb drug cheats in the Kiwi gallops or trots. Not one. The RIB […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
What you see above is the trainer’s receipt for a swab sample taken from their horse at a NSW harness race meeting on the 22nd of May 2025. The usual practice in most States with swabs is that they are either personally delivered or couriered to the relevant testing laboratory after the conclusion of the […]
* Metaphorically speaking of course, not literally. We are opposed to violence, other than of the controlled and regulated type in a boxing ring or in home or country’s defense from an invasion. Other than that we are peace man, and used the bullet as a metaphor for a rule breach offence charge. The Stewards […]
