Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well they can’t afford the swabs you see Jeffrey This may sound incredible, but over the past 17 days the gallops Stewards in South Australia have gone seven consecutive thoroughbred meetings without pre-race blood testing a single horse. Seven in a row! Port Lincoln, Oakbank, Morphetville, Naracoorte, Strathalbyn, Port Lincoln, Murray Bridge. Exactly 50 races […]
The image you see above is the headline of a purported ‘news story’ published today on the Harness Racing Australia website www.harness.org.au, extolling the virtues of yearlings sired by Always B Miki that are being sold at the APG Gold Coast sale later this month. What it really is though is a free advertorial, however […]
An eagle-eyed reader has just pointed out an error in my earlier story about David ‘Slasher’ Moran. Slasher didn’t just get done for whip abuse in Group 1 races seven and nine at Melton last Friday, he got fined for a whip offence in the Group 1 race six too, the Group 1 3YO Vicbred […]
See that horse on the outside’s wheel, and where it is? You can’t do that. It has come straight over on top of the horse on its inside, in flagrant breach of the rules. The horse is Bondi Lockdown, and this is the Group 1 3YO Colts and Geldings Final of the Vicbred Super Series […]
The showcase night of the Victorian harness racing year ended up as nothing but a demonstration of the utter contempt that the leader of our industry hold for the welfare of our racing animals. It was an orgy of animal cruelty from whoa to go, and David Moran was one of the stars of the […]
In a further continuation of the outrageously inept integrity situation in Queensland at present, there were no swab attendants on duty at the TAB meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday. As a result no pre-race blood or any other type of swabs were taken from any runner. The only swabs taken were urine samples from […]
We have received confirmed information suggesting that the former NZ Police Prosecutor cum harness race trainer Dave Iremonger was investigated by internal detectives in the police service for inappropriately accessing the NZ Pol database to obtain information about Operation Inca, the taskforce investigating race fixing. It is our understanding that Mr Iremonger was questioned in […]
DECISION OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DATED 30 APRIL 2020 1. Mr Blair Orange is a Licensed Open Driver under the New Zealand Harness Racing Rules and is charged that “on the 14th March 2020 at Christchurch being a Licensed Open Driver did misconduct himself by repeatedly telling RIU staff to “f… off” when lawfully investigating a […]
It was a year ago, September a day I well remember I was walking up and down in drunken pride when my knees began to flutter and I fell down in the gutter and a pig came by and lay down by my side As I lay there in the gutter thinking thoughts I could […]
Now let me say from the outset that I am definitely not talking through my pocket here, for I had my biggest bet of the weekend on Amore Vita which won the 2-year-old fillies final of the Vicbred Super Series last night. That squared away, you would have to ask – as an avid reader […]
