Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sadly Archie your story re the walls come tumbling down aptly describes SA harness racing the moment. I write as an observer from over the border and was watching last nights Port Pirie races and saw what happened with the blackout. I know for fact that there was a horse from Mount Gambier that had […]
Last night’s Kadina Cup meeting at Port Pirie was supposed to be one of the biggest country meetings of the year. The main event of the night was a qualifier for the prestigious $60 000 South Australia Cup, with the winner to go straight into the field for the big one, which had attracted the interest […]
Whoee Johnson is well tried 9YO pacer who has had 113 starts across 6 seasons at a variety of tracks. The fastest time he ever run and won in any of them was 1.58.6. Last night at Globe Derby the horse was backed off the map from $5.00 into even money ($2.00). It led out […]
Just last week we told you about Fletch Maguire, the walker from Kiwiland who came to OZ and improved by half the length of the strait. The once weak gutted cat from Aotearoa improved even more in the space of the past 7 days. Kiwi Horses That Suddenly Grow Legs – Summit and Bain Would […]
Race 8 Globe Derby. Six horse field. The market opens with Cyclone S Adams $1.90. It blows out the door to $3.30. Uncle Louis is $2.70. It drifts to $3.20. Hurricane Ed is $4.80. There is a little bit of dough for it but not much, and it lands at $3.70 at the jump. Magic […]
If you ever needed proof that Ben Yole is a low-life grub then this is it. 20-year-old Bronte Miller has been charged over the crash in late January that injured she and a number of other young harness racing kids. Miller been charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm to another person by […]
We wrote the story pictured above about 3 weeks or so ago, well before it hit the news. Well I guess we made the news really, well before anyone else. Some of us keep our nose close to the ground. At the time we said that we hoped the footage when released wouldn’t take the […]
One state has leapt to action in response to a shocking video which shows racing animals being abused by a trainer. On Monday, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas announced an inquiry into the culture and practices within the state’s greyhound racing industry. It comes as just weeks after the ABC obtained footage of a man […]
The South Australian harness racing Stewards – who are generally regarded across the industry as the least competent in the land – have imposed the most draconian penalty on well respected long-time trainer Lou Trotta that have been seen for a long time, if ever. Trotta has been directed that for the next 18 months, […]
15. (1)Stewards are empowered – (a) to direct and control at any time the activities of persons licensed under these rules and anyone else appointed, employed or engaged in any aspect of the harness racing industry, concerning the application of these rules; (b) to entertain and determine all matters under question or in dispute at or […]
