Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Calculating Dancer had only been back in the Pullicino stable for a few weeks, after spending the last two years up in Newcastle under the care of the Bourkes. Gaita drove it as dead as Elvis first-up last week from the extreme outside draw, and when it started to steam home in the straight drove […]
‘Devastating life events’ led to SA horse trainer Ryan Balfour to drink and drive and pass out in his car, court told Story by Natalie Vikhrov, Adelaide Advertiser A prominent South Australian horse trainer was suffering “devastating life events” – including the loss of the family racing business – before he drove so drunk he […]
South Australian reinsman ‘Super’ Mario Borg has had a wretched luck in the cart this year, with the horses that he has driven seemingly being checked or galloping or managing to find some other misfortune every time that Super’s gone around. It’s that terrible run of luck that saw him line up behind the mobile […]
Health and safety standards are clearly not of a particularly high standard in South Australia. These images are of the start of race 8 at Clare on Sunday. The woman in the right hand corner with the bloke in shorts has clearly had a few. She takes and sip and then decides to have a […]
The mail is that the clubs that make up the membership of the SA principal harness racing authority (PRA), Harness Racing South Australia Ltd, earlier this month forced the Annual General Meeting of the company to be aborted after refusing to confirm the financial accounts as true and correct. We don’t know what the exact […]
Remember the Gambler? Kenny Rogers? The glass pipe jockey who last year copped his fifth disqualification for throwing personal positive swabs, all bar one of them to meth or ice? You know Kenny, the big talker non-walker who made cowardly threats against our person after we wrote a story about him, then wouldn’t answer the […]
Former South Australian trot man turned gallops trainer Waylon “The Highwayman” Hornhardt might be in a bit of trouble. Hornhardt’s two runners at the Mildura meeting on Melbourne Cup day Sassy Angel and Mr Trafficanti were scratched by order of the Stewards on reasonable suspicion that they may have been administered medication in breach of AR249(1). […]
Fortunately no one was badly hurt in the fall below in the 1st at Gawler on Sunday. It looked pretty awful. There but for the grace of God we go.
Story by James Tzaferis @ betsty.com.au, 9 Oct 25 Veteran South Australian horseman Darryl Carrison will attempt to gain a stay of proceedings that will allow him to continue training while he appeals a four year disqualification for a charge relating to synthetic EPO use. Carrison fronted the stewards on Tuesday following a long-running investigation […]
More than two months ago we tipped you off that a South Australian gallops trainer had been raided by Stewards who busted them with synthetic peptides manufactured in India in their possession. It appears now that the day of reckoning for the gallops trainer with the peptides is soon to arrive, with prominent racing writer […]
