Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
All horses trained by Jason Grimson and Jack Trainor have been scratched from the meeting at Newcastle tonight. Trainor is not driving at the meeting. As we advised you this morning there has been an outbreak of COVID-19 at the the Menangle Training Centre that is being hidden from the public by the racing authorities. […]
They say actions speak louder than words, but sometimes the converse is true. Actions are but fleeting, and often seen by none or few. Words stay on the page for all to see. Here are Adam Fairley’s. Is it really in the best interests of the sport for the pedigree analysist for Cobbitty Equine Farm […]
COVID-19 has swept through Menangle, and a number of participants are seriously ill with the disease. Those known to have contracted it to date are Inter Dominion winning trainer Jason Grimson, leading driver Cameron Hart, junior driver Will Rixon, and the Menangle farrier, a fellow named Judd. It is believed that Hart caught the disease […]
There is nothing like a totally impartial unbiased Director of a Principal Racing Association is there? Anyone in NSW know where we might find one? Not here, that’s for sure.
We’ve received a large volume of correspondence relating to our story yesterday about former HRNSW official Adam Fairley being soon to appointed to replace Craig Meagher on the board of the organisation. No-one who has contacted us is in favour of the appointment. What we have been told is that while Fairley was a senior […]
The former Kiwi pacer Nerano has had six starts since coming across the ditch. It’s won them all, and done it in brilliant fashion too. That’s why is was so surprising that there was no money for it in race 4 at Wagga on Tuesday night. There was plenty of money for So Much Bettor, […]
Tamworth harness trainer-driver Stacey Elliott was charged with cobalt offences in October. She is guilty of presenting horses to race with banned substance in their systems, but it wasn’t her fault. This hasn’t come out publicly yet, but you can take it as read that the feed she was sold by supplier Furneys Stockfeeds was […]
The mail out of Sydney is that another former employee of Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny is about to be appointed to the board. Adam Fairley is his name, the former long-time HRNSW Manger of Industry Development, and the Handicapper and Racing Manager before that. It is said that Fairley – who has been […]
The best way to fight is on the front foot, as you can see from this photo of the Balmain Boxer down at the beach training one of the Russian Olympic medallists who came over to learn from him, and who he took to the Australian title. I wonder if anyone in Tamworth has ever […]
Oh dear. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, you’ve done it again. Do you remember our story from earlier this year about Tommy ‘The Boot’ Ison giving one of his drives a good, hard hock up the arse in a race at Tamworth? Just in case you missed it, I wrote this: Dear Mr Tom Ison You had […]
