Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I love Crash Craddock. When I was a teenage kid I worked as a copy boy (fledging journalist) in the Sports Room of what was then Queensland’s Daily Sun. John Hartigan was the Editor, and an abrasive but hugely effective boor named Col Allan was his Chief of Staff. They both went on to become […]
Kerry Towers is a NSW trot trainer. In January 2014 her horse threw a positive swab to a substance called Deferoxamine in a post race urine test after winning a race at Menangle. It was the first and to date only positive to the stuff ever recorded in the world. Under the rules of harness […]
Dear NSW Racing Industry Participants, One of the main Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of a public company is the dividends it pays to its shareholders. In the racing industry, the equivalent KPI is the total returns paid to participants. Accordingly, it should bring great satisfaction and pride to NSW participants that the thoroughbred racing industry […]
Take a l00k at this race above. Protest 2nd v 1st upheld. Now look at it again in super slow-mo. It looks to me like the driver of the horse on the outside was the one who drove his wheel up inside the leader, not the other way around. If I am right the protest […]
What is going on with the prizemoney for feature races at Menangle. It seems that it is all just TBC. To be confirmed. That’s a great way for a trainer to plan their horse’s prep isn’t it? We might go to Menangle and we might not. It all depends on what HRNSW are going to […]
Do the QRIC have a clue about what is going on within their own organization? The evidence says not. What you see at the top is an extract from the March edition of Race Magazine, the QLD racing calendar aka the bible. The magazine is published by Racing Queensland, but the information in the picture […]
Now to be very clear, if a little folksy, I am writing what follow from a position of ignorance, but informed by what is in the Stewards report, and added to by what experience gained from a life spent on the track tells me must almost certainly have happened. But to be very clear it’s […]
Trot Adam Ruggari has been outed for 3 years and 3 months after committing his 4th substance rule breach for one of his horses throwing a positive TCO2 swab. The bloke is clearly a slow learner isn’t he? What smart man milkshakes a horse with absolute confidence unless they are paying the Steward in charge […]
I think trot trainer Jarred Hetherington’s appeal hearing comes up next week in the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal. Well not his appeal, theirs. Harness Racing NSW’s. Why on God’s earth, at a time that prizemoney is being slashed all over the place, would HRNSW spend large amounts of good industry people’s money paying its lawyers […]
Have a bloody look at this drive by young Cooper Griffiths on Three Rivers in the last at Tamworh will you. What an absolute disgrace. Three Rivers and the winner of the race Arnie’s Army are stablemates, both trained by Tom Ison. Ison elected to drive Arnie, and put the kid on Rivers. Rivers blew […]
