Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer Dean Taylor had two runners in the 2nd race at the Addington Trots last night. One was a brown mare with a white fetlock and star, brand number 163916. The other was a bay gelding with only a few white hairs on its forehead, brand number 175635. They were a bit hard to miss. […]
Merimee winning at Doomben, looking like Bernborough Three and a half weeks ago the Chris Waller trained 3YO filly Merimee beat a good class field in a Saturday metropolitan race at Doomben, and looked liked Bernborough in doing it. Yesterday the now rating 70 filly stepped out again on the polytrack at the Sunshine Coast […]
I am joking. I think. Suspensions in NSW don’t really happen, they are just fictions on paper. Robbie Morris copped 28 days in the first round of ID21 late last year, and hasn’t served a second of it. Jack Trainor was given 21 days a fortnight ago, and he is still driving. Aaron Dunn will […]
As you will be aware, we wrote a couple of days ago about the massive disparities in sentence for the same offence between the 2 day suspension given to driver Brent Barclay, and the $300 fine handed down to Blair Orange. In that article we suggested that if the adjudicator in both cases had been […]
EVIDENCE: At the conclusion of Race 9 the Diamonds Day 30th April Mobile Pace a protest was lodged by Stipendiary Steward Mr V Munro alleging that under Rule 869(7)(b) that THE COBBLER (B Orange) went inside a pylon in the home straight therefore gaining an advantage. THE COBBLER was placed second in the race. Mr […]
I write often about harness racing drivers ‘hocking’ – kicking their horses to make them run faster – for I consider it a cruel and barbaric practice, and one that must be stamped out by stomping down hard on drivers who do it. Would you run out onto the oval and kick your kid in […]
What has happened on the turn entering the home straight in the Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prix is nothing short of disgraceful. Chris Angove and his family had spent more than three decades getting their trotter Sundon’s Courage to this race. They’d bred him themselves, and they had bred his mother and his grandmother […]
We wrote last week about the huge disparity in sentencing the NZ Racing Integrity Board has been displaying in regard to harness race drivers who deliberately cut the corners or go inside the pegs of the sprint lane in order to gain an unfair advantage in a race. As our example we used the case […]
On the 26th of October 2021 the Racing Integrity Board adjudicator Mr Nigel Skelt imposed a 2 meeting suspension of driver Brent Barclay’s license, after he was found guilty of a charge of driving up inside the marker pegs to gain an improper advantage in a race. Barclay’s offence was cutting the corner and going […]
Many good judges I know claim that Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor is the best driver in NSW, and they are not far wrong at that, although for mine Luke McCarthy and young Jack Callaghan have a head or so on him, and a long one at that. There is doubt however that Turbo knows all the […]
