Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing NSW have thrown the kitchen sink at drivers Jack Brown and Lucas Rando for swapping urine samples when the random drug test team came to Goulburn at the end of October last year, and then they’ve put the boot in as well. Brown – the prime offender, who in his desperation to avoid […]
24 June 2025 Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards have concluded Inquiries that were commenced in relation to the provision of human urine samples to HRNSW Stewards at Goulburn on 21 October 2024, Menangle on 19 November 2024 and the subsequent analysis of those samples. On Wednesday 21 May 2025, Mr Rando was present […]
Every punter knows that the number of corporate bookmakers has exploded, with cashed up sharpies all over the country obtaining licenses to print money by using algorithms, the law of averages and incentives to lure in mug punters and strip they and their families of their hard earned dough. Bankers, IT professionals, marketing executives, investment […]
Have a look at the run down the home straight at Menangle on Saturday night and keep your eyes on the horse behind the leader and the one behind that. There was a protest lodged 3rd v 2nd. I thought watching the race that it should have been upheld. HRV Stewards disagreed. They decided that […]
It was a very Turnbull affair in the 5th race at Bathurst last night, with linear descendants of the legendary A.D. Turnbull turning out every one of the runners in the race. A.D.’s son Steve, an Inter-Dominion winner with Smooth Satin, trained four runners. Steve’s eldest son Nathan trained four too. Nathan’s younger brother Mitch […]
HRNSW swabs all winners at NSW Tab meetings (that is, all meetings except for Broken Hill), all first, second and third placegetters in all races with total prizemoney exceeding $100,000, all first and second placegetters in all races with total prizemoney between $50,000 and $99,999, all horses that have successfully been claimed, and all winners […]
I’ve been pondering the Pizzuto arsenic positive swab thing, and come to the conclusion that it’s very bloody strange. There have been thousands of horses compulsorily housed in the retention barn since it was constructed using what are now claimed to be arsenic treated boards, and not one of them has thrown a positive swab […]
The retention barn at Menangle is a supposed drug-proof prison covered by cameras and guarded 24/7 that runners in big races are ordered to enter and remain in from midday on the Thursday until two hours prior to start time of the race. The whole intent is to prevent horses from being doped with Performance […]
Trotter Sheetweb Weaver has won just 4 races from 34 starts before joining the stable of trainer Bruce Birch, the last of them coming at Cobram in May 2023. He had gone winless from his past 2o runs, managing just three placings in among 17 unplaced finishes. Pre-Birch the fastest time he had ever run […]
The protest second against first in this race at Redcliffe on Sunday was dismissed. I’m buggered if I know how. The driver of the winner (in purple) clearly comes out underneath the second placegetter (in yellow) turning into the straight and causes them to lock wheels at the top of the stretch. The purple horse […]
