Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
These clerical errors just keep on happening under Chief Steward (Darling Downs) Clayton ‘Crayons’ Warren’s watch. Yesterday we told you about the four mistakes at Toowoomba on Saturday night. Today we tell you about the two at Chinchilla on Monday, the very next meeting held in the district. Crayons has got the race to race […]
I doubt that we are going to very popular in South Australia at the moment, for since we published our story yesterday about the horses that ran under the wrong numbers at Globe Derby without the Stewards noticing, they have now noticed. The official Stewards comments on the race have been changed. Suddenly the trainers […]
Speaking of Alex ‘The Juice’ Ashwood, there he was in Tasmania on the weekend too, smack bang in the middle on another episode of the popular reality TV program ‘Circus Days – the Crisis in Australian Stewarding’. The Juice is the part-owner of a pacer named Tactile Sensation, one of many horses that he owns […]
It appears from the news filtering in that Nathan Day’s disqualification definitely relates to cash sums passed by the jockey to the Clerk of the Scales, former jockey Wally Welburn, and the track manager cum starter Trent Williams. The transactions were apparently caught on CCTV cameras that had recently been installed in the weigh in […]
See number 5 there? It’s not the horse that it supposed to be. The word is that South Australian police officers were at Globe Derby Park yesterday checking on the systems and checks and balance in regard to their ongoing investigation into the Shane Loone runners ring-in a couple of months ago. While the police […]
No Grubby, you’re a bit light. It’s nine not two. Word is filtering in that FIFO jockey Nathan Day, who lives in SEQ but rides predominantly in Central and North QLD, has been disqualified for 9 months. No-one seems to know why. The case is yet to be published on the QRIC website so we […]
The Sting Corbould Park, Caloundra, aka the Sunshine Coast. 20 March 2022. Everyone’s a winner. Except favourite punters. Here is how it rolled. Race 1 The winner Nettuno is backed as if unbeatable, $3.10 into $1.65. It is unbeatable. The plunge lands. This is a very smart horse. Put him straight in the black book. […]
The NSW gallops stewards must eat the same crackers for breakfast as their colleagues at the trots do, because their standard of officiating is about the same. Their whole suite of skills was on show at Rosehill yesterday. In race 3 Sam Clipperton pummelled his horse with the whip all the way down the straight, […]
On the 25th of February trot drivers Brad Williamson and Tim Williams decided for no reason at all to go war on each other in a race at Methven. Williams had the lead, and Williamson decided he wanted it, so he took him on. Tim Williams wouldn’t give it up, and Brad Williamson wouldn’t give […]
162. (1) A driver shall not – (c) once on the track speak, communicate or signal to any person other than an authorised official Australian Rules of Harness Racing As you can see in the rule above, in Australia trot drivers are not permitted to speak to other drivers during a race to communicate or […]
