A Question For Red Hot Rocky
If I am the devil’s butler Sir, Then how would you like your tea?
One Plunge Lands – Mario Goes Super
There were 8 runners in race 4 the trot at Globe Derby today. Gaita – sorry, Frank – Pullicino trained 2 of them. If a race was ever ripe for a plunge this was it. Usually when the Pullicino’s pull one they put Mario Borg on the rabbit. Not always though. Today was one of […]
The Appaller at Gawler
Further to the mass exodus at Gawler. It seems that most of the volunteers at the club have left as well. Apparently there was a vote in regard to a new stall block being built at the track by a noted engineering firm, which wasn’t the mob that Aaron Bain works for which got the […]
And Then There Were None – Mass Exodus at Gawler
The Gawler committee posing for a picture in front of the winning post The hot off the press mail is that the entire committee at the Gawler Harness Racing Club have walked out en masse, leaving the club without any constitutionally valid leadership, and in the hands of Aaron Bain’s dad Peter. At this stage […]
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 […]