Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We learned this week of the disgraceful actions of former licensed NSW stable hand Samantha Murphy, who neglected a number of retired racehorses in her care so badly that they died, and then left their putrefied corpses lying out in a 120 acre paddock to rot. The horses had been cast into the paddock and […]
Story by Julian Linden, Daily Telegraph Ben Sarina, a lifelong trotting driver battling mental health demons after being booted out of the sport during the infamous ‘green-light scandal’, is again pleading with NSW harness racing authorities to give him a second chance after a supreme court judge ruled the body overstepped its powers by banning […]
To suggest that he was a person affected by rules which were implemented to govern an industry in which he was prohibited from participating, defies common sense – NSW Racing Appeals Panel decision in Ben Sarina v Harness Racing NSW Now as we have written a million times and have plastered all over this website […]
… a person becomes bound by Rules upon becoming a participant in the harness racing industry. In other words, whilst the existence of a contract is not a prerequisite, or condition precedent, to a connection with the industry, a person becomes bound by the Rules as a consequence of participation. (emphasis ours). In that case […]
Ben Sarina has won his appeal to the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal against the decision to warn him off for life for assaulting a former harness racing Steward, in a decision that has an immediate and wide ranging impact on the powers of HRNSW and its Stewards to supervise or control the activities of disqualified […]
Aaron Goadsby must be the most unlucky horse trainer in Australia. A couple of years ago one of his horses threw a positive swab to bute. Like gallops trainers Chantal and Richard Jolly at around the same time, Goadsby’s positive was accepted by all parties as resulting from contamination, but because he lives and works […]
If you are going to bag a bloke to your mate while you are standing up at the trough doing a snakes hiss it’s best to check the stalls first to make sure that the bloke you are bagging out isn’t inside there listening. That’s a lesson that driver Chris Geary learned recently when he […]
The decision in Aaron Goadsby’s case against Harness Racing NSW will be delivered today. Goadsby has challenged the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Board to increase his penalty for refusing to hand over his phones from 12 months to 5 years, without warning him that it intended to do so. The warning – […]
The appeal of harness trainer Aaron Goadsby against the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel to disqualify him for 5 years for failing to produce telephones registered in the names of his non-racing related businesses will be heard at 10.30am this morning in the NSW Supreme Court, and is sure to be of […]
There are some NSW trainers who appear to be under-performing this season compared to the last. Brad Hewitt trained 69 winners Statewide from 299 starters last year at a strike rate of 23.1%. He won 22 from 72 in the city at a strike rate of 30.6%. Hewitt finished 7th in State Premiership and 5th […]
