The Hard Done By Kid – Greg Bennett and the Lies They Told About Him
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What a Goddamn Joke
The NSW Stewards would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Blaike McDougall sat up on the leader Demi God ib the last at Albury and almost cost it and the punters who backed it the race. In another stride it would have lost. The rules say that a jockey must ride their mount out to […]
Mike Says Someone Needs a Set Square
Hi Archie When you look at the photo finish the white line is not drawn on the correct angle. If you look at the photo finish mirror on the infield the line does not start in the middle of the mirror but well in front of it. Move it back to the correct position and […]
Told You So Didn’t We? – Hope You Took the Tip
A couple of days ago we declared Minos an absolute certainty at Albion Park, and begged you to take the tip. Hope you did. It shit in. $2.80 we got, and are wishing you did too. Leap To Fame holds the track record at Albion Park. It is the greatest pacer ever seen. Minos is […]
Ciaron Maher Gets the Rub of the Green
Is Ciaron Maher the luckiest trainer in NSW? Or the most favoured? Many this week are asking the question after Maher was granted an exclusive lease from Racing NSW on the 125 box former Grand Lodge stables at Warwick Farm following its $20 million purchase by the racing regulator. This latest stroke of good fortunes […]
EPO – How Far Does It Go?
There is interesting mail out of Tasmania that disqualified harness racing participant Mark Reggett’s appeal last week against his 5 year disqualification for EPO was disrupted by the unexpected – by Reggett anyway – appearance of 5 police to meet him at the appeal room door. It is said that these officers seized his phone. […]
If The Ground Could Open Up And Swallow You …
Tommy Berry must be ruing his comments in an interview with Sky after Hovland’s at Warwick Farm ago. Berry told the interviewer that he “had the opinion of being a lot more positive this morning when I (he) spoke to Tom and John, and full credit to them, they didn’t want me to be that […]
Sometimes the Good Guys Win – Yesterday One Did
We have written repeatedly and at length about the injustice handed down to Paul Tonkin, a good honest man who had served his community and its people faithfully for all his life, and then got publicly shamed and disgraced by the NSW harness racing authorities for an unintentional breach of the rules caused by cross […]
One Rule For One, Another For Others
Hi Archie Hope you are doing well. Just wondering if Grace Panella and Brendan Flaherty share a farrier which could explain the possible meth contamination. Why has Flaherty been stood down and sentenced when his positive was months after Panella’s. (August V November)? Why hasn’t Panella also been stood down? Surely HRNSW aren’t playing favorites. […]
The Hanging State Lives Up To It’s Name
NSW trot trainer Brendan Flaherty has been disqualified for 2 1/2 years for presenting his filly Gisselle to race with methamphetamine in its system. It is an outrageous penalty. No-one actually dopes their horses with meth, because it is obvious they will throw a positive swab if they do, which means that Gisselle’s positive was […]