Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Poor bloody Frank Pullicino. Just like Ben Yole down south of the Bass Strait, he had 4 of the 7 starters in the trot at Globe Derby last night. And just like Chainsaw he walked away with nothing but small cheques and broken dreams. Third, fourth, sixth and seventh. Ryan Hryhorec didn’t do much better. […]
The entire harness racing Stewards panel in South Australia should be sacked and replaced tomorrow. These so-called integrity officials lack the competence, confidence and courage to perform their jobs to the requisite standard required to maintain public confidence in the sport, and their ongoing control of the regulatory functions continue to drag it into the […]
The horse is at the heart of everything we do in South Australian thoroughbred racing and it always has been. The welfare of our participants – our animals and our people – is an absolute priority Racing South Australia, Thorough Care Animal welfare is Racing SA’s absolute priority. Second only to trainers smoking a dart […]
On Monday we told you the amazing story of how the most over-worked galloper in training Masterati – who has been racing non-stop since July, and had raced 22 times in just 29 weeks – was actually given a break of more than a fortnight in between races, which must have made the poor old […]
We told you recently the tale of Australia’s iron horse Masterati, a former Sydney and Brisbane restricted grade galloper that had been sent to South Australia, where it had been raced by its new trainer Grant Young an incredible 22 times in just 29 weeks. In the story we decried the over-racing of the poor […]
At exactly what point does racing a galloper excessively become an animal welfare issue? Can owners and their trainer race an aged thoroughbred week in, week out in races held on professional tracks, and still be said to care for the best interests of their horse? Those are the questions that need to be answered […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC01022104.mp4 Arco stepped out for her new owners for the first time last weekend – attracting the biggest crowd seen at the Gawler trials in many years. “It was fantastic. There would have been 100 members there watching her trial, including Lorraine Coombes, from Mildura, who got up at 4am to travel over and get […]
This is race 4 on Saturday night at Globe Derby. It was the hottest race you’ve seen this year so far, and maybe ever. The plunge was on Ace’s Daughter. Frank Pullicino – the equally corrupt husband of the multiple times disqualified cheat Gaita, who is banned from holding a license in Victoria – trains […]
How the hell does can an eight-year-old pacer with a record of 135 starts for 14 wins and 40 placings be rated as an NR31 under the new national handicapping system? Particularly a pacer who has won four races in the past eight month, run second four times too, and third once? It doesn’t make […]
