Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Kiwi harness racing writer Brad Reid is a relative newcomer to the sport, who first became involved less a decade ago. In that time though he has fallen it with the trots like many of us, and has become a passionate enthusiast and advocate for our great game. Sadly though, like a lot of us, […]
We have written often about the NZ Racing Integrity Board’s strengths and weaknesses. With good reason the themes of these stories have been 10-1 the weakness way, and we are probably going soft on them at that. The treatment of driver Tim Williams, whose dad is on the board – and therefore the Stewards and […]
The former chief executive officer of TasRacing resigned for “personal reasons” just two months after a workplace culture review delivered a scathing assessment of the organisation’s senior leaders. Now, he is running the national peak body for racing in Australia. Paul Eriksson, who was appointed as CEO of TasRacing in 2019, resigned in June despite extending his contract with […]
We have this morning sent this request for information to the Chairman of the Marlborough Harness Racing Club in New Zealand. The issues relate to substantial seven-figure sum gaming machine grants made to the club at a time when it only raced twice per year. For the avoidance of any doubt, no allegations of impropriety […]
Here is a simple explanation of how the new appeals system is going to work in QLD. We are not lawyers, so this is not legal advice. It’s just telling it like it is. Disqualification Action A DQ or suspension of 3 months or more, or being warned off or put on the forfeit list […]
The word out of Woodend Beach this morning is that a private meeting was held early today between Robert Dunn, John ‘Lurch’ Dunn, and senior stable employees Craig Edmond and Gary Lane. They say that the topic was covert surveillance being conducted outside the property by investigators from the Racing Integrity Board, NZ’s version of […]
Now I am not a registered lawyer, so I can’t give you legal advice, and won’t. But I can give you a couple of important tips. In the course of doing something recently, I had cause to look very closely at the Rules of Greyhound Racing, and their interaction with the law prescribed in the […]
About 12 years ago the racing steward Paul O’Toole got arrested and then convicted of taking bribes of circa $400 grand from harness racing trainers and drivers in return for not swabbing their horses. It became known as the Green Light Scandal. The amount that O’Toole actually copped for his crooked acts was much higher, […]
Do you know what’s bad and sad about harness racing? There is trench mentality about protecting your own. The Trot industry is like a big Catholic family. They fight like shit inside the walls, but touch one you touch all, and no-one ever gives anyone else up. No-one likes a dog, but some things are […]
So the RIB would follow him. And not walk into someone else’s place instead. Or so they think. I’d be checking the roof and the trees if I was them. What am I talking about? The person that dobbed Phil Burrows and Matt Anderson into the RIB. Or the the dupe they assumed didn’t know. […]
