Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I came across this photo of rider Wanderson D’Avila in the jockeys room at Saturday’s Gordonvale race meeting while scrolling through the pictures posted on the Facebook page of the superb North QLD racing photographer Peter Roy. Sadly for jockey D’Avila, as well as being a great photo – my wife just walked past and […]
A little noticed rule change was introduced in Victoria in late June that alters the way certain alleged rule breach offences by participants are dealt with by the authorities. Prior to the change the following offences were deemed ‘serious offences’ and were heard and determined directly by the Victorian Racing Tribunal (VRT) as the decision […]
As predicted, Harness Racing NSW has lodged an application in the Supreme Court for Judicial Review of the recent Racing Appeals Tribunal decision in the Ben Sarina case. They sort of had to, for the Tribunal’s determination that disqualified or warned off former licensees are not bound by or subject to the rules of harness […]
To suggest that he was a person affected by rules which were implemented to govern an industry in which he was prohibited from participating, defies common sense – NSW Racing Appeals Panel decision in Ben Sarina v Harness Racing NSW Now as we have written a million times and have plastered all over this website […]
Under the rules of harness racing – rule 259(1)(e) – a disqualified person is absolutely prohibited from racing horses during the period of their disqualification. That creates a problem for both Greg Fleming and Harness Racing Victoria. Fleming is a disqualified person. In 2023 he was disqualified for 2 years and 6 months after being found […]
The case of Shane Sanderson and his horse Perfect Stride’s positive swabs to tiludronic acid is very interesting one that shows the importance of proper scientific research having been conducted prior to depriving licensees of their livings for breaches of the substance rules. Tiludronic acid – s0ld under the name Tildren – is a treatment […]
General – Following the completion of Race 6 and prior to the declaration of All Clear, Stewards ordered the announcement of ‘Hold All Tickets’ to allow an investigation to be completed into the participation of CARRERA SUNSET NZ and BELLA DANZA. Following investigation which confirmed the identity of both horses and taking evidence from Drivers Mat […]
I always thought that I was pretty au fait with the rules of racing, but this one has me baffled. Apprentice Montana Philpott replaced now senior rider Dan McGillivray as the rider of Star Chance in the last race at Ipswich yesterday. Now it was weird that McGillivray was able to accept the ride in […]
AR 263 Prohibitions on persons and their conduct while disqualified (1) Unless otherwise authorised by the PRA which imposed a disqualification (and upon such conditions as that PRA may in its discretion impose), a person disqualified under these Australian Rules must not, during the period of that disqualification: (o) receive any direct or indirect financial […]
Harness Racing New Zealand is conducting a formal review of the recent controversial incident whereby the qualification rules for the prestigious 2YO Young Guns Trot series were altered to allow horses that hadn’t contested a heat to gain a place in the field for the final (the original published conditions were that only horses that […]
