Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the Stewards Summary listed on the form of Saturday night’s Menangle winner Familiar Tricks for it’s previous start. Note that Familiar Tricks was subject to an Age Horse Vet Examination. All well and good you might say, and congrats to the Stewards for telling us. No. An aged horse vet exam is usually […]
So the way to get Illavabubbles beaten is now obvious. Make her run two quick early quarters in a row. Illavabubbles has had 8 starts for Jason Grimson, and has won 6 of them. https://www.harness.org.au/racing/horse-search/?horseId=819909 She showed blinding early speed in each of the wins, but was allowed to back off and run a comfortable […]
The chances of racing at Randwick tomorrow seem to be drifting by the second. As at 1.20 pm more than 85mm of rain had fallen on the track. There seems at present to be no sign of the downpour abating. Last weekend’s Doomben meeting was abandoned after about 65mm of precipitation fell on the track […]
A draft of an article about drug testing in NSW that was being worked on by the author was briefly published in error on this site this morning. It has been removed as soon as the author became aware of its publication. Fortunately it had not been read by mny subscribers at the time. The […]
Bloody Sydney and it’s Easter time weather. I was just saying to a mate yesterday that it was a miracle the Golden Slipper wasn’t run on a heavy track as it had been so many times before. It seems I was a week too early. This is the rain at Randwick on Thursday night, and […]
Here is our brief and admittedly opinionated commentary on the HRNSW March Integrity Updates and Information published yesterday on the national harness racing website at https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=64804 Read on and see what you think. Clayton Harmey copped a positive swab to Levamisole after winning a race at Newcastle in January. We tipped you about that […]
The last race at the feature Bathurst Gold meeting on Saturday night ended after 11.00pm. After that the trainers and their drivers had to attend to swabbing requirements, wash their horses down, load them and their gear onto their floats and trucks, take them home, unload the horse, stable them and make sure they have […]
Jason Grimson’s record of 2 winners from his past 10 starters would be worn as a badge of honour by most trainers, but for Grimson it’s a comedown that has lead many harness racing pundits to question whether the Group 1 winning trainer might have lost his edge. They have no reason to. Let’s go […]
One of the most interesting racing cases of the year will be heard in the Supreme Court in Sydney today. It is the matter of Goadsby v Harness Racing NSW, in which racing participant Aaron Goadsby is challending the right of the regulator to take possession of mobile phones registered to his various mining transport […]
The office of the NSW Harness Racing Integrity Auditor was created by proclamation of the Harness Racing Act (NSW) on the 12th of May 2009 after it had been passed by both houses of parliament. This was what the explanatory notes attached to the bill for the legislation said (I have added the bold type […]
