Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Take a look at what Tasmanian driver Nathan Ford does here as they turn for home. Bloody hell, how obvious can a cheat be? Ford pretends that he isn’t, but he clearly steers the leader off the fence to let the runner boxed up on his back through. It wins of course. That’s what it […]
Having read the comments made by Justice Bowman in his decision to warn the punter Noah Brasch off for 10 years, I feel confident to say that jockeys Michael Poy and Lewis Germain are looking at very long stints out of racing when their matters come to sentencing. They might even get life, Poy particularly, […]
What the hell was driver Mitch Ford doing here in the 6th race on the Emma Stewart trained Free To Play (no 9. 2nd from the inside on the 2nd row)? Why did he allow the despised $91 outsider Shooin to cross him at the bll? Why didn’t he come out 3-wide ahead of Didyoulousaroosta […]
Here is the guts of what the Stewards say happened, with a bit of our commentary incorporated into the tale. Shane Loone has two horses in race 6 at Gawler on the 12th of August, Majoreholeinmypocket and Illawong Kim. Loone nominates himself as the driver of Majorholeholeinmypocket. Given that he couldn’t drive a nail into […]
One of the most common questions we are asked the casual harness racing observer on this site is a simple one. “How hard is it to fix a trot race?” Not very is the answer, particularly when you have two drivers in on the fix. In 2014 the infamous now banished father and son team […]
Just a couple of weeks ago the Victorian Racing Tribunal upheld a 3-week suspension the Stewards gave small-time driver Michelle Wight for persisting to race three-wide on a $26 outsider, when there was no chance of her getting in. https://content.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/VRT-Decision-Michelle-Wight-11-July-2024.docx If that decision is the baseline, then Steve Turnbull should be given 3 months for […]
Michael Poy was allegedly communicating with the punter who was paying him for information on which horses to back and which ones to lay using disappearing messages on the encrypted app Signal. That sounds like an excellent idea if you are fixing races by pulling horses up, because the last think you want to do […]
Nigel McGrath is a cheat. By his own reckoning McGrath was giving his horses the banned substance propantheline bromide – a muscle relaxant that works like EPO by increasing the flow of blood – for two years during the Blue Magic scandal that resulted in 2 people dead, supposedly by suicide, although few believe the […]
If you want to see a red hot trot race, then look no further than the last at Albion Park yesterday. Maywyn Bonton Boy was trained by Kelli Dawson and driven by her partner Shane Graham. It blew from $5.50 in the betting out to $8.00. Cyclone Tony was driven by Kelli Dawson’s close family […]
Race 1 at Melton was the biggest boatie I have ever seen in my life, I’m not pointing the finger of blame at any particular driver and saying they were responsible, I am just saying that this race was red hot and ten times hotter again. Take a look at the fluctuations. Little Louie was […]
