Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you were a favorite punter betting on the Menangle trots today you’d be hurting right now and wishing you’d stayed in bed until at least the start of the second last race. The first nine favorites in a row on the card all went down. Seven of them were at odd-on. Three of the […]
On 15 August 2025, peterprofit.com published a post titled ‘Stewards on the Punt’ (the ‘story’). This story has since been removed from the site. We made an important factual error when we published that story, which requires immediate correction. We retract what we wrote in the story about the prohibitions on the betting activities of […]
You can’t use just two meetings to claim reduced prizemoney……you need to know the programs for the year and the total annual prizemoney. Doesn’t NSW currently work on a Tiered meeting system, so some meetings had the all circa $6k and some the all circa $9k races? This changes it from Tiered meetings to Tiered […]
HRNSW CEO Peter Buckman – Someone please find this man a calculator, for it appears that he can’t count Harness Racing NSW announcement this week that it is introducing a “tiered prizemoney structure” has caused outrage among the majority of industry participants, and for very good reason too HRNSW CEO Peter Buckman makes the disingenuous […]
Finally, fifteen months after the $100 000 Hunter Regional Championship final was run and won, the result of the feature race has been determined after the runner that finished first past the post The Cid has been disqualified for throwing a positive swab to the prohibited substance harpagoside, an anti-inflammatory painkiller that is commonly found […]
Earlier this week we told you how NSW harness racing trainer Tony Bertwistle had been hammered by Stewards with 2 x 2.5 year sentences after a pair of his horses returned positive swabs to cobalt. In the same week the decision in the case of a Victorian gallops trainer named John Pearson whose horse also […]
Hi AB The ongoing discussion about integrity highlights the general complacency around ensuring sound systems are in place. Regulators completely ignore the obvious signs of potential manipulation – i.e. incredible changes in a horses performance and abnormal strike rates. Strike rates are interesting – take the thoroughbreds – last year Maher – 14%, Waller 12%, […]
Hi Archie, I read with interest the article from HRNSW Stewards that Scott Hewitt received no penalty for his Levamisole positive swab. In talking to one of the stewards about the case, apparently Scott ran sheep on his property (which he treated with Levamisole) and although the horses and sheep were in separate paddocks, the […]
The unexplained delay in Harness Racing NSW dealing with a positive swab recorded by the Mark Callaghan trained The Cid, the winner of last year’s $100 000 Hunter Regional Champion, is to put it plainly ridiculous. Any horse that throws a positive swab is automatically disqualified from the race in question, regardless of the cause […]
Don’t you hate it when a short-priced favorite gets caught in a pocket that costs it all chance of winning, while the plunge horse in the race sails on by to victory? There was nothing James McDonald could do to get Cross Tasman out. He was stuck in a zip fastener with no gaps in […]
