Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It has been reported in the Sydney Morning Herald that certain officials of Harness Racing NSW have launched defamation action against the Rupert Murdoch owned press, and in particular one of its award winning journalists, over a series of stories that he wrote and they published, about matters related to positive swabs to a substance […]
In late May this year Hunter Valley trot trainer Brendon Flaherty was handed down a two and half year year disqualification after his mare Gisselle threw a positive swab to methamphetamine. Flaherty was a first time offender who pleaded guilty to a presentation charge at the earliest opportunity. Yesterday another Hunter Valley horseperson Grace Panella […]
Take a look at this ride of Zac Lloyd’s on the heavily backed Tellurium in the first at Newcastle yesterday. It came down the outside and was home to the world thanks to a beautifully timed ride by Lloyd. And then he sat up without cause, and very nearly got it beaten. What the kid […]
This is the photo finish for 2nd in race 9 at Dubbo on Friday. The judge said that the inside prevailed, and the Stewards agreed. I reckon they are both wrong. There is no way that there is separation between these horses noses and the line. I am not saying that either or the other […]
This is an enlargement of the photo finish print from race 8 at Newcastle on the 16th of June. There is separation between the 2 pacers on the line that is clear to see. The outside has won, do doubt about it all. Yet the race was declared a dead heat. How? There is a […]
See that bit of missing running rail at the 1300m mark in the first at Ballina on Sunday? Why wasn’t it there? It should have been. Whose job was it to check? They obviously didn’t, and it created a safety hazard that put horses and jockeys at heightened risk. That’s not on. We all make […]
The Supreme Court decision in the battle between Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club (ATC) over PVL’s crew’s decision to appoint an administrator to run the Sydney race club is difficult to understand if you don’t get the intricacies of the law, which I don’t but think I get the gist of, and even […]
Do you remember us breaking the story a couple of years ago about Adrian Talbot, the brother of the then Wagga Greyhound Club President Ben Talbot, and how he was killing horses and chopping them up to sell to greyhound trainers, including his brother, for dog food? Here are the stories if you have forgotten. […]
Readers will be very familiar with the spate of jockeys and trackwork riders in QLD who have been outed in the past 18 months for lodging doctored health reports required for their annual license renewals. We now it seems like the Cane Toad, dodgy health reports have become a cross border plague that has entered […]
Former harness racing identity Ben Sarina (pictured above) – currently warned off indefinitely, because only rapists, murderers and terrorists get minimum terms on their sentences – has won his appeal against a second disqualification imposed on him for his conduct in a private dispute between he and a then former Steward that culminated in an […]
