Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A watchful observer will have noticed that all of Tasmanian trot trainer Connor Crook’s seven runners over the weekend have been scratched, five from Launceston on Friday night and two from Hobart on Sunday. There is a reason for this. It has not been publicly announced yet, but Connor Crook has been caught by Stewards […]
The time honored Hobart Cup was run on the 8th of February over 2363m. It was supposed to have been run over 2400m, but the track staff stuffed up and put the starting stalls in the wrong place. The Starter knew about the mistake prior to the jump and told the Chief Steward, but the […]
Our recent story about how the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board makes decisions at the pace of a three-legged turtle obviously had an effect. What Do You Have To Do To Get An Appeal Decision In Tasmania? Three of the five delayed appeal decisions that we highlighted have suddenly been delivered after we published our story. […]
You wouldn’t want to be in a hurry to get your appeal heard in the Apple Isle. The Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board appears to move as fast as a 3-legged turtle crossed with a slug. Gallops jockey Catherine Van Muster (who has a stay) was suspended for a month for careless riding in July last […]
The news hot out of the NSW Supreme Court is that the three harness racing Ford brothers – Nathan, Mitchell and Tyler – charged with serious drug offences in NSW have this afternoon been granted bail. At this stage we don’t know the terms of their interim release from jail or what bail conditions the […]
Want to see the most blatant and absolutely disgraceful breach of the harness racing whip rule in the past decade? Then watch this. The driver is Corey Johnson, the South Australian whose family has been the target of clandestine fire bombings and graffiti attacks in recent months. If you didn’t know better, and realise that […]
This is race 2 from Launceston Cup day last Wednesday. One of, if not the, biggest race days on the Tasmanian calendar. Liam Riordan is on the horse in the Godolphin-like blue but a little bit lighter with the white cap coming widest around the turn. See how many he knocked down?* Depending on whether […]
Tasmanian trot caller Matt Roberts had a long night calling races on the Hobart Cup card yesterday evening. It told by the time he came to the last race. Roberts made two howlers. Got it wrong not once but twice. First he called the horse on the inside as number 8 Mister Eagle, when in […]
By Jon Tuxworth (The Mercury) Tasracing has made the stunning admission there was intel the barrier gates were in the wrong position before this month’s Hobart Cup, revealing a “judgement call” was made to run the race on schedule anyway. Speaking on SEN on Friday, Tasracing chief executive Andrew Jenkins said the review into how […]
The latest mail filtering out of Tasmania is that the Hobart Starter, a highly experienced chap with over three decades in the job, did in fact notice that the barriers were in the wrong position for the start of Sunday’s Hobart Cup. Word is that he challenged the position of the barriers either before or […]
