Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Dear Peter Profit Unfortunately what Mark Latham didn’t mention was how the AFL beat the NRL in the media rights deal by the length of the Flemington straight. In NSW racing the Hawkesbury club went into administration, we have TAB tracks out west that dont even have semaphore boards, and PVL sits back and allows […]
The secretly funded new seemingly anti-Peter V’landys racing website thestraight.com.au broke new ground in its apparent campaign against the Racing NSW CEO by reciting from a speech given to the largely irrelevant upper house in the state given by the totally irrelevant MP Mark Latham under parliamentary privilege. https://thestraight.com.au/all-tip-no-iceberg-latham-launches-extraordinary-parliamentary-attack-on-part-time-peter-vlandys/ In his speech the madcap former […]
Take a look at the start of the Golden Slipper from two perspectives. First keep your eyes on the favorite Storm Boy jumping from barrier 2, and see how the barrier attendant seems to have hold of him just until they jumped, and how he seemed to do down on his knees and miss the […]
So jockey Ryan Moore bowls into town from England and, having studied the form on his iPad on the plane on the way over, decides that his mount in the Rosehill Guineas Cap Ferrat – who has been ridden from the back in each of his previous 6 starts would benefit from being ridden up […]
HEAT ONE The Clayton Tonkin trained (note no Emma) Wazza came up to Bathurst with huge wraps on him, which was hard to fathom given his trial in rather ordinary time at Melton a couple of weeks ago, which made his price of $1.60 here quite unfathomable. Sweet On Lexy on the other hand looked […]
Sweet On Lexy 1.53.9 My Ultimate Barney 1.54.2 Fox Dan 1.54.4 Business In Heaven 1.55.3 Wazza 1.55.42 Sanchez 1.54.44 Soho The Real Deal 1.55.06 Ultimate Cruza 1.55.34 Jack’s Ultimate Fury 1.56.5 Soho Fury 1.56.6 Springfield Amore 1.56.659 (1ST EMERGENCY) Hezatreacherous 1.56.663 (2ND EMERGENCY) The horses in bold are the fastest 2nd placed qualifiers.
Three decades ago Robbie Waterhouse sought a pardon from the Queen of England to get him back into racing after his Fine Cotton warning off. He didn’t get it from QE2. But he didn’t need it. His Queen whose efforts would get him restored to racing was only inches away on the other side of […]
