Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Take a look at this race above – race 4 at Bathurst last night – and ask yourself this question. What the hell was Jett Turnbull doing? The answer is easy. Trying to tank the odds-on favorite on his inside so as to get it beaten. He succeeded. It’s hard not to when you force […]
Take a look at this video from race 6 at Goulburn on Monday and keep your eye on the 7 and the 6. It was a battle for the spot in the line between the journeyman club fighter Dean Cernovskis and the rising star of the professional ranks Will Rixon. In a major upset Cernovskis […]
Victorian driver Ryan Sanderson has been hit with a massive 35 day suspension for his drive on Master Gouda in the $100 000 Riverina Regional Championship at Wagga on Friday night. Sanderson’s huge penalty came as a result of the incident below in which he crashed across to the peg line on top of driver […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
This is the question ATC members are voting yes or no on: “That the sale of Rosehill Gardens Racecourse (Rosehill Gardens) to the Crown in the right of the State of New South Wales (State) or other entity nominated by the State (the Transaction) is approved, provided that: Rosehill is sold for $5 billion $1.9 […]
Harness Racing Australia’s internal computer system HARVEY has been down since Monday, causing havoc with the compilation of fields and payment of prizemoney across the country, and particularly in NSW. HRNSW are not saying anything about the cause of the outage. It has posted three updates to the Harness Racing Australia website about repairing the […]
The Australian Turf Club members vote on the question of the proposed sale of Rosehill was already odds on to fail, despite the five-year free memberships and the $1000 worth of goodies a year bribe/inducement/incentive (choose one) that the desperately out of touch club directors are throwing at members to try and sway them to […]
Former Group 1 winning trainer Ben Smith has died. Smith, who has had well documented battles with substance abuse, is believed to have suffered a drug overdose. The trainer had a roller coaster ride in the sport, shooting to prominence through the deeds of his mare In Her Time before falling back to earth when […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
There have been some interesting developments in recent weeks relating to harness slot races. Kevin Seymour, who missed out on buying a 3-year slot in the Protostar in a ballot, has purchased the slot previously owned by Anthony Vugec. Keen to secure a slot so the 2yo that bought by his grandson Ben Seymour in […]
