Murrihy Report in Full
The full final report of Ray Murrihy can be found at the link below. Click to access Final%20Report%20-%20Murrihy.pdf
Murrihy Report – Part 3 – Tasmanian Harness Racing Needs a Complete Overhaul
Ray Murrihy has found that the Tasmanian racing requires a major overhaul to improve competition on the racetrack, because fierce competition in races is the industry’s best safeguard against team driving and race fixing. In other words, he is saying everyone except the Tasmanian authorities know, which is that racing dominated by a single stable […]
Murrihy Report – Part 4 – Ray Savages the National Ratings System, and Says It’s Set Up to Be Rorted
The final Term of Reference (ToR 7) provides opportunity to advise on other matters relevant to horse welfare, team driving and race fixing. On the basis of relevancy, this review believes that fierce competition on the racetrack is the industry’s best safeguard against team driving and race fixing. Therefore this review would be remiss not […]
Murrihy Report – Part 5 – Why Did Tasracing Employ a Starter Who Was a Ben Yole Employee? – And Why Did the Office of Racing Integrity Let Them?
Conflict of interest with a race starter A matter that was the subject of media reports and review submissions was that of a race starter, employed by Tasracing, who officiated at harness race meetings under ORI control whilst also a paid employee of a leading trainer (employed to drive the trainer’s horse transport to race […]
Murrihy Report – Part 6 – Janet Ainscow Was Burned at the Stake – The Chief Steward and the ORI Lit the Match
ToR 4 requires a review of the adequacy of ORI’s management of allegations relating to team driving that were reported by a part-time steward (brave and honest whistleblower Janet Ainscow, who was persecuted by her bosses for doing her job by reporting the allegations). (Ainscow), employed with ORI, had a conversation with a harness driver […]
The Deadest Ride of the Year – Dale Evans Should Be Put Out For Life – UPDATED
Nic Me Some was heavily backed to win the 4th race at Mackay on Saturday. That was bad luck for those who backed it, because it’s jockey Dale Evans determinedly didn’t want it to win. I wonder who paid him to hook it? Harsh words you say? Then watch this and keep your eyes on […]
Operation Inca Failure Cops a National Kicking – Ands Deserves it Too
What the Hell Was This?
This is race 7 at Dubbo on Friday night. Watch the two horses in the Turnbull colours of red and blue. The horse one off the fence is driven by Jett Turnbull. His father Nathan is driving the one on its inside. Am I seeing things, or did Jett shift his horse off the track […]
Methinks S. Cramp Held Something Back From G. Hall
Shayne Cramp trained six of the seven winners at Mildura that fateful night in November, all of them no doubt filled to the eyeballs with juice, but it’s the 7th one that he didn’t drive himself that is of interest, for I suspect he fixed that one too. The second suspect race was race no […]
How Did the Koala Get Out of It All Unscathed?
Almost 10 years after the Cramp race fix occurred the great unsolved question about the whole thing remains exactly that, unsolved. How did Gary Hall Jr get out of the whole thing unscathed? There has never been any suggestion that Hall was involved in the fix – he couldn’t have been, because he was on […]