Does Anyone Know What a Verterinarian Is?
What’s a verterinarian? Does anybody except SA Harness Racing know?
In South Australia They Think Integrity is the Name of a Fast Starting Foreign Car
Watch the horse on the outside here BEWARE THE FURY in the 2nd race at Globe Derby last Monday. See it get a flying start. After viewing start the Stewards and the Starter claimed to be satisfied that BEWARE THE FURY had not been going forward until the barrier had been released. Yeah right. All […]
Trainer Ryan Balfour Booted Out of the Game – Racing SA Rules Troubled Trainer Not Fit and Proper to Hold a License
The disintegration of SA gallops trainer Ryan Balfour is complete. Racing South Australia have ruled that he is no longer a fit and proper person to hold a license. Balfour’s license has been cancelled, effective immediately. The license cancellation period is indefinite. He may reapply for a license in the future, but I wouldn’t like […]
Super Mario Pulls Off Another Plunge
The South Australian training master of the long priced plunge ‘Super Mario’ Borg did it again at Globe Derby yesterday when his horse Levi Jimmy landed the cash in the 8th race after being backed from $23.00 into $5.50. Levi Jimmy hadn’t won a race in his previous 25 starts and was coming off recent […]
A Rather Concerning Matter
There are reports that Lil Lenny, the runner-up in the 2nd at Globe Derby yesterday, broke a knee during the race or in the run on after they passed the winning post. Lil Lenny was a 4yo gelding having its first race start. The serious injury may have just been the result of bad luck, […]
Random Thoughts on the First Night Back at Globe Derby
The track surface looked like it still needs to pack down a bit, but it raced fast and well. The best time of the night was 1.56.7 and they ran sub-1.58 in three races, so its a pass. They need to put hoardings on the outside fence from the turn out of the straight to […]
Loone Gets 12 Months
Trainer Shane Loone has been disqualified for 12 months for corruption and betting charges related to the race at Globe Derby on 12 August that he tried to set up to get the favorite beaten . It was a stiff sentence but well deserved. More to follow….
Globe Derby To Return on 12 October
After months of remedial works racing at the Globe Derby track is set to return on the 12th of October, finally giving punters desperate enough to bet on the SA trots some respite from the ardours of trying to find a winner on the lowly country goat tracks Gawler, Kapunda and Port Pirie. The first […]
Strange Bedfellows
Turn around bright eyes ….. No wonder Harness Racing SA CEO Dean Elliott can’t find the time to order his Chief Stewards to charge trainer Shane Loone over the ring-in he pulled at Globe Derby. It seems that Elliott is too busy posing for photos with alleged cocaine trafficking kingpins to attend to the integrity […]
We Didn’t Look Deep Enough into Aladdin’s Lamp
Archie In regard to your recent story about Aladdin, there is one thing that you’ve missed. Aladdin was purchased by his SA owners two days before he won the Harness Millions, not afterward. We crow eaters got the cash. Harold from Hampton.