How Many Stipes Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
Have you ever seen a mid-winter nothing sort of meeting that has 10 Stewards officiating at it? You have now. South Australia is a weird and wacky place. This just proves it.
The Greatest Hook Job in History
See where the markers are above? There were 2 horses drawn off the front. And $82 shot on the inside, and the Ryan Hyrohorec trained and driven $2.10 favourite on the outside. The horse on the supposed 10m mark drawn inside Hryhorec’s horse was in the market too. Watch what happens. You would have to […]
South Australian Harness Racing Was a Basket Case – Now it is Organised Crime – Part 2: The Fix Begins
Okay, you’ve heard what Jimmy Jacques had to say, and what he says the Chief Steward said. Everything is sweet. Bien Hoa jumped in fright at his own spit and knocked over one of the top 3 in the market. It was all sweet. Graham Loch said so. And they expect us to believe this […]
South Australian Harness Racing Was a Basket Case – Now it is Organised Crime – Part 1: The Slag
In 50 years of harness racing I have never seen a more blatant race fix that the one pulled in the first at Globe Derby. It was absolutely disgraceful, and you know what? Almost everyone was in on it. At the very minimum four drivers were – Michael A Smith, Dani Hill, Wayne Hill, and […]
When in Adelaide, All You Can Do is Shake Your Head
I don’t know what to say about the standard of South Australian stewarding, or at least nothing that I haven’t said a million times before. Look at the decisions in these three races in a row at Globe Derby this week, and you make up your own mind. Stewards inquired into an incident near the […]
The Chris Bieg Trial Raises Serious Questions That Racing Must Confront and Answer
Adelaide trainer Chris Bieg is set to face court in October after he was granted bail at Christies Beach Magistrates Court on Friday. Bieg, who is facing 12 serious charges which are not related to racing, had been remanded in custody earlier this week, but was successful in his bail application on Friday morning. His […]
A Famous Horse Trainer? – I Don’t Think So – Wanna Bring Your Wife and Kids Down to the Stables? – No
A well-known horse trainer is standing trial accused of strangling, kicking, punching and stomping on a former partner he initially met via an online messaging application to pay for sex. Christopher Bieg, 37, of Camden Park first met the woman in mid-2019 before the pair became “exclusive” in about August of the same year. Opening […]
You Can Tell a Man By the Company He Keeps
Jayson Adams is a former SA trot trainer who was arrested last year in the major drug bust that brought harness racing owner Andrew Benz, and trainer/driver/club official Jonathon Kingston-Mayne unstuck. To all appearances Adams for years lived the life of a clean cut, hard working family man. He was living a lie. They say […]
The Genius of the SA Harness Racing Stewards
There were ten horses pre-race swabbed at Globe Derby on Saturday night. Four of the blood tests were taken across three races. The other six were taken from every runner in the last race on the card, a standing start trot race run at 10.21pm. Pure genius it was, so bloody clever that no-one in […]
Super Mario Wins His Appeal – I Told You He Was $1.10
Super Mario copped a 14 day suspension for his drive (in the video pictured above). It looks to us like he had plenty of room and was entitled to move over. What seems to have happened is that the driver of the horse that he crossed was the one who caused the interference to the horse […]