The Bella Rouge Stewards Report
All words, no action. Welcome to Sydney. The Emerald City of broken racing dreams.
The Hottest State This Side of Hades
Sydney racing is booming on the prize money side, and in almost every single way, bar one. It’s turned it into the hottest thing since molten lave, and I don’t know why. Sorry, yes I do. Greed, sheer greed. Greedy jockeys, fuelled by the desire for the drug money that is awash in the Sydney […]
No Jason, Do You Cast a Shadow – A Real Dark One Indeed (First Published February 2022)
I Cast No Shadow is a six-year-old pacer who has had 70 starts for 4 different trainers in 2 countries over 4 seasons. In all of those starts he has never run a faster winning mile rate than 1.54.6. Today at Menangle at his second start back after an eight week break – boom boom […]
Jason Grimson is a Cheat and a Thief, and Should Be Scrubbed Out of Harness Racing for Life (First Published September 2021)
Kerry Ann Morris is one of NSW leading trainers. She has won 2 of the past 5 State training premierships, and finished 2nd in the other three, and is the leader on the current season table. A pacer named The Raconteur was trained by Morris for the first 13 of its 15 start career. It […]
A Letter to Jason Grimson (First Published June 2021)
Dear Jason I am sorry for calling you a cheat. I was wrong, and I apologise. In recent times you’ve been put under the microscope more than any other trainer in living memory. The Stewards camped at your place three times a week for three weeks and found nothing. This week they marched your horses […]
Is Gary Woodham Going into the Top Job at Tasracing?
There has been very strong mail floating around in Kiwi racing circles that current HRNZ CEO Garry Woodham is abandoning the sinking ship and moving over the ditch to take up a very senior role in racing in Australia. Many have this new job for Woodham as being the CEO role at Harness Racing Victoria, […]
How Do Ordinary Kiwi Horses Come to Australia and Suddenly Run Like Superman?
Wave The Bill was a very ordinarily performed pacer in New Zealand that won just two races from 2 races from 27 starts and earned winning stakes of just $12 100. Win one was in a race at Auckland two years and three months ago, when it started at a price of $21 and beat […]
The Butcher’s Theme Song – Work it Out Yourself
EXCUSIVE: Why Would You Go All the Way From Sydney to the Gold Coast to Get a Phone When They Sell Them at Woolies Bra?
This message exchange is from jockey Tom Berry in white, to his punter the Butcher in green. It’s a long way to go from Randwick to Robina just to get a phone isn’t it? Wonder what was in the deleted message? I know! I know! Abba.
The Tommy Berry Inquiry – The Race – (or One of Them Anyway)
The word on the street is that one of the main focuses of the Stewards attention in the Tommy Berry inquiry race number 10 at Royal Randwick on Saturday 23 October 2021. Berry won it on Quantico, which was backed from $10.00 into $7.00. The Butcher is said to have had $10 000 on Berry’s […]