Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Guess how many members there are of the SA Harness Racing Club, the association that runs Globe Derby? 135. Guess how many voted in the election held over the past couple of weeks for members of the club committee? 99. What this means is that the club that holds more than $18 million in property […]
Hi Peter, Comments on protected species. In the late fifties and throughout the sixties Alby Holberton (trainer) /Jack Butler (chief steward) did to South Australian trots what the Ben Yoles, Emma Stewarts, Peter Tonkin (the godfather) and Clayton Tonkin (convicted of blue magic use) have done to the game in the modern age in other […]
Harness SA can say whatever they like, but the cold hard truth is that Kevin Seymour AM – Clip Clop Kev – has bought control of the $18 million asset of the land at Globe Derby for just under $4.something million. The man’s a genius. The idiots who run Globe Derby are just that, fools. […]
We told you a few weeks ago that well-known and much-liked SA businessman and harness racing identity Joe Carbone was in the ICU fighting for life after suffering a serious medical incident. Well Joe fought a great fight, but the good Lord who had tried to take him to the Pearly Gates track before this […]
Well known Gawler harness racing owner Paul Cormack, a great supporter of the trots, passed away last week after a long and brave fight against illness. His death has been felt by the many in harness racing who loved him, and he will be sadly missed in the sport. Paul’s funeral will be held next […]
Popular South Australian harness racing identity Joe Carbone (pictured), a businessman and former prominent trainer, and later owner of good horses like Tact Hayley’s Delight and Major Lincoln, is in a bad way in the ICU right now after suffering a serious medical incident earlier this week. It’s not good news, but Joe’s been there […]
Vaughn Newman is a small time licensed South Australian trainer who lives just a couple of streets from Globe Derby, where to date he has been working his horses. He was doing exactly that 4 weeks ago when he noticed that the surface of the track was to his mind sub-standard, and detrimental to the […]
The Emma Stewart stable sent a team down to South Australia this week to contest the heats of the SA Derby and SA Pacing and Trotting Cups, but unlike in previous years they didn’t send one of their own drivers down with them, preferring instead to let Gaita Pullicino handle their horses. After what happened […]
The conditions for the Golden Nursery series in South Australia are truly bizarre. The race is worth $25 00o plus bonuses, but no-one knows what the bonuses actually are or how they are paid, other than that they only get paid to connections of horses that are card-carrying members of the SA Breeders, Owners, Trainers […]
Sadly Archie your story re the walls come tumbling down aptly describes SA harness racing the moment. I write as an observer from over the border and was watching last nights Port Pirie races and saw what happened with the blackout. I know for fact that there was a horse from Mount Gambier that had […]
