Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The mail is that talented Tasmanian harness racing trainer/driver Conor Crook has applied for and been granted 16 boxes at the newly constructed Shepparton Training Centre in Victoria, if and when it is ever completed (more on that later). His move can’t come quick enough for Tassie punters, who to a person are sick and […]
As we predicted a year or so ago, all of the police charges laid against harness racing identities flowing from New Zealand’s Operation Inca have been dropped. That was as expected. Now the real fun begins. The RIB wants the police to hand over their evidence so that it can be considered in relation to […]
I’m a huge fan of WA trot caller caller Richard Bell, and have sung his praises on many occasions and described him as Australia’s best in his niche profession. But just lately there have been a few little things that Bell has said or done that have made me stop in my tracks and scratch […]
Lindsay Harper is a crook, a life long one too. Harper was very, very lucky to get his life ban lifted, and only did so because a whole lot of heavy hitters felt sorry for him and swung their weight behind the campaign to get the cheat relicensed. And how does he repay them? By […]
They say the man who put the bets on is Stephen Walters, the brother of ‘Roll Off (the Fence)’ Robert Walters, the man who made it all happen. Coincidence of great coincidences – Steve Walter is the the cousin of Mrs Ben Yole. Funny that. Steve Walters is or was a registered bookmaker. Even funnier […]
Remember we told you last week about the $101 into $2.90 plunge landed at Globe Derby on a Phil Westbury trained pacer? Well here’s two in a week. On Saturday night a horse named Run For Stikka was backed from $61 into $19 to win and land another big plunge. Run For Stikka, like Westbury’s […]
It seems we got a rather important bit wrong in our earlier story relaying the mail about the Victorian visit to the central west of Northern NSW during the week. They were they alright, and they did come to interview Amanda Turnbull about the alleged Cobram fix, but it was not the HRV Integrity Team, […]
Big news out of Victoria is that despite Nathan Jack and Mark Pitt’s big win on appeal on their criminal match fixing charge, the Cobram affair may not be over yet at all, and far from it. If you recall, Amanda Turnbull was arrested over Cobram race fix early in the piece on allegations that […]
Photo: Willie Lincoln on January 2, 1924 when he won by 20 lengths at the Southland Racing Club meeting as “Look Out”. A notorious ring-in case involving a well performed pacer Willie Lincoln played out at a Southland Racing Club meeting 98 years ago. The story began when Willie Lincoln was entered for a race […]
The Julie Douglas camp is as dodgy as a trot camp comes. She’s the trainer on paper, but her husband Glenn is really in charge of the reins. Glenn relinquished his ticket because he and stable employee Ellen Tormey were fighting a DQ for drenching in the courts, so as is the time honoured custom […]
