Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The news out of Perth from Ernie Manning is that Gary Hall Jr has filed appeals against his pair of 5 week suspensions (with 2 weeks to be served concurrently) imposed by WA Stewards for recent unacceptable drives on beaten favorites You’re So Fine and Wildwest. Hall Jr is also appealing his conviction for the […]
Bruce Clark has written the excellent piece on the Darren Weir sentencing hearing republished below. You can find this and a range of other brilliant stories on Bruce’s website clarkofthecourse.com A Victorian Racing Tribunal supposed penalty hearing descended into some farce as another disqualification period was delivered but no absolute decision reached. Darren Weir will […]
Will Wagner is the man behind Save Harness Racing in Tasmania, the widely read Facebook page dedicated to cleaning cheating, corruption, race fixing and animal abuses out of the sport in the Apple Isle and beyond. That of course means getting rid of the main offender Ben Yole and his crooked sidekicks, which in turn […]
The tempestuous career of talented apprentice Bailey Wheeler has struck another setback, as usual one totally of his own making, when he was this week suspended for 28 days for lying to the Stewards at the Ipswich Cup meeting. Details are a little scant, but the guts of it is that when Wheeler turned up […]
A couple of weeks ago in Townsville the Chief Steward of North Queensland racing Darryl Griffiths gave apprentice the apprentice jockey Isabella Teh (pictured at top) a 26 day suspension for causing interference in race 4 at Cluden Park on the 19th of May, a race in which jockeys Quilty and Les Tilley fell. The […]
Watch this race and ask yourself if you would have upheld a protest 2nd v 1st on the grounds of interference down the straight. YES or NO? If you said YES then you join a small but elite group of experts headed by HRV Stewards on the panel at Terang on Monday who agreed with […]
Under the Queensland Local Rules of Racing a horse competing at a metropolitan race meeting (other than in a Group race or race 1) must be on course at least 2 hours before the advertised starting time of its race. From an integrity perspective adherence to the arrival time is extremely important, for horses that […]
The batteries must have run flat on trainer Patrick O’Toole’ss jigger during the week judging by the performance of his previously sparked up horse Oakleigh on the weekend at Alpha. The winner of just 1 race from 35 starts prior to being hit with the jigger turned post-jolt winner of 2 from 2 was back […]
Strike me pink. What an absolute garbage report this Stewards finding is. Carl Spry never attempted to put the horse into the race. A wide open run that you could have sailed an ocean liner through opened right in front of him down the running. Spry didn’t take it. He didn’t take any runs, or […]
Have you ever heard of the rule that requires a reinsperson to drive their horse on its merits, giving it every reasonable chance to win or finish its best possible place in a race? David Moran the driver of Roryville – the horse on the extreme outside in the blue and white – obviously hasn’t. […]
