Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
