Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The connections of the beaten horses in the under-distance Hobart Cup appear have no hope, particularly those of the second and third horses. The rules of racing permit protests within a 30-day window after the declaration of correct weight under certain circumstances. But a Chief Steward being made aware of an irregularity in the distance […]
Story by Jon Tuxworth Furious trainer Peter Luttrell has declared his horse was “robbed” of winning Sunday’s Hobart Cup and will seek legal advice after TasRacing admitted a starting barrier blunder ensured the race was run several metres short of the scheduled distance. The Imogen Miller-trained Blonde Star, an outsider paying more than $31, won […]
How on earth did the Stewards let the Hobart Cup to be started from the wrong position, which meant that the race was run about 30-40 meters short of the advertised distance of the race? Are these people utterly incompetent or something? Surely the officials in charge of racing integrity must know where the proper […]
