Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the temporary training track for use by trainers at Globe Derby while the main track is being reconstructed. Its been built by dumping two truckloads of shell grit on top of the existing car park, and spreading it approximately two horses wide around a circumference of about 200m to create what must be […]
Lui Trotta (pictured above) has won his appeal against a 14 month disqualification imposed on him for both publicly abusing his young driver Bernadette Page, and telling the starter who had conveyed to him a direction to attend the Stewards room that the Stewards “could go and get fucked”. Well he has sort of won […]
On Friday 15 March 2024 Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW) Stewards commenced an Inquiry into the late scratching of the horses WHODAT BOODAT, BUTTER CUP, MY ULTIMATE LEVI and MOOPS from the Broken Hill Harness Race Meeting on that date. The inquiry was adjourned to allow Stewards to obtain further information in relation to the scratchings […]
Do you remember a story we wrote a couple of months ago in which we predicted days before it happened that SA trot trainer Ryan Hyrhorec’s runner in the Broken Hill Cup would be scratched due to a claimed float breakdown? What Price Ryan Hryhorec Scratches My Ultimate Levi From Friday Night’s Broken Hill Cup? […]
Aaron Bain Racing’s rapid rise in South Australian thoroughbred racing is set to go to another level with the move to the former Lindsay Park property in Angaston. The historic horse haven in the Barossa Valley, made famous by Colin Hayes as Lindsay Park and then Kildalton Park with the McEvoy’s will be known as […]
In another great fillip for the local standardbred breeding industry, the 2nd of the SA 2yo classics the BOTRA Southern Stars series final was won by a pacer from the powerful Victorian Stewart/Tonkin stable just like the 1st, and like Miss Disturbia it was a non-sales entry too. Doesn’t it do woners for the local […]
There were six races at Port Pirie. The winners of only two of them were post race swabbed after their victories. Those two winners swabbed were trained by Ryan Hryhorec (1) and Leah Holman (1). None of Aaron Bain’s three winners was asked to give a post-race sample. That’s a bit of a worry, for […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
If you’re a favorite backer with a death wish, Mt Gambier is just the place for you. Five of the six at the top of the market went down last night. The $2.25 fave in race 2 Starzinhereyes, trained by Marnie Bibby, led but then lost all rhythm at the bell and wobbled off the […]
About a month ago we wrote a story about the huge amount of money that Harness Racing SA and the SA Breeders Owners Trainers and Reinsperson’s Association were wasting on so-called classic Kindergarted Series for 2YO’s, and after staring into our ever faithful crystal ball we declared that a non-sales entry from the Tonkin/Stewart stable […]
