Operation INCA Update
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Another Canberra Race, Another One Trainer Stacked Rort
There were 6 starters in the fifth race at Canberra last night. Trainer Michael Hawke had four of them, and took full advantage of it. Major Huss was the plunge horse of Hawke’s four. It was backed from $3.40 into $2.50. Crime Don’t Pay and The Talk stayed at about their same price in the […]
The Perils of One Trainer Having Six Runners in a Seven Horse Field
There were 7 runners in race six at Canberra last night. 6 of the 7 were trained by Grant Forrest. Forrest’s horses ran 1-2-3. The winner was backed from $4.80 into $3.00. The second horse blew from $2.20 to $4.00. The third horse firmed, but then was laid on Betfair. Second and third don’t try […]
BOMBSHELL! – Operation INCA Charges Dropped – But Don’t Start Celebrating Yet Cheats. You’re Friar Tucked
In a sensation, but not a surprise, a week before the court was due to make a determination regarding the admissibility of the phone tap and surveillance evidence obtained by police and RIU (Racing Integrity Unit) investigators in the long running Operation Inca taskforce investigation into race fixing, all the charges have been dropped. Don’t […]
This is Why One Trainer Should Be Allowed to Have Half the Field
There were six starters in race one at Gloucester Park last night. Donald Harper trained three of them. One was backed like there was no tomorrow. It was drawn 2, and lead easy. Its stablemate slipped into the death, and the other stablemate jagged its back in the 1-1. Game over. Except for one thing. […]
This is How a Race Fix Works – And Why the Hills are Koalas
Want to know how a race fix at the trots works? Then watch this one above. Wayne Hill is on the odds on favourite Deadline. It is drawn in gate 2, and sails to the lead as expected. Hill’s sister Dani is on the second favourite Illawong Kim, drawn in gate 6. It comes across […]
It Was a Fix – The Most Blatant Piece of Cheating You Have Ever Seen on a Trot Track – Give This Bum Life
Well in half a century of kicking around trot tracks you’ve seen so much cheating that you often feel that you are coated in it, so much so that you become half convinced that you will never see anything again that surprises you. But then something like race 4 at Newcastle comes along and you […]
Leopards Never Change Their Spots
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
Greg Sugars Is a Great Driver – But From a Punter’s Wife’s Perspective He’s a Piece of Edgar Britt
You would think that a driver of Inter Dominion Trot winner Greg Sugars stature would be good enough to hook a horse without it being so obvious that the whole world could see it, but you’d be wrong. Look what Sugars does here tonight in race 1 at Bendigo on the favourite. Sugars is in […]
Samantha Pascoe Pulls One Up, Right in Front of Our Noses
Have you ever seen a more blatant hook job in your life than Samantha Pascoe’s pull up on Stylish Heaven in the last race at Globe Derby on New Year’s Eve? I mean come on, this is just so blatant that it’s outrageous. Have a look at it. Pascoe is on the horse that sweeps […]