Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are dark clouds of controversy hanging over the field selection procedures for the $45 625 Group 3 IRT Young Guns Trot Final, and quite rightly too. The Young Guns is a series, and like all series it is run with qualifying heats and a final. In this years series there were two heats run, […]
Former SA harness racing licensee Kerry Brown is a wanted man. Wanted by the Stewards that is. Last week Brown failed to remain – i.e. walked out of – a Stewards inquiry into why he was driving one of trainer Rebecca Geurds pacers in trackwork when he doesn’t have a license permitting him to do […]
Harness Racing Australia’s internal computer system HARVEY has been down since Monday, causing havoc with the compilation of fields and payment of prizemoney across the country, and particularly in NSW. HRNSW are not saying anything about the cause of the outage. It has posted three updates to the Harness Racing Australia website about repairing the […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM09052503.mp4 The drive of Shane Young on Wonderful To Fly in the G3 WASBA Breeders Stakes at Gloucester Park on Friday night was very strange indeed. Young led on the fave from gate 1, but at the bell with two laps to go he meekly handed up the front to the second favorite Penny Black […]
Carter Dalgety wears his hair weird so no-one can see if he has a brain Weight stops trains they say, but I can stop weight. The Cooler one of my mates calls me, and perhaps he’s right, for yesterday I put the cool on Carter Dalgety well and truly. Readers will be aware that I […]
Archie Nothing “wrong” with Seymour buying the slot at a premium as selling the slot at a premium was one on the marketing tool used for the concept in the beginning, only I think it was intended for on the eve of the race, not for profit making on ballots for getting slots in the […]
There have been some interesting developments in recent weeks relating to harness slot races. Kevin Seymour, who missed out on buying a 3-year slot in the Protostar in a ballot, has purchased the slot previously owned by Anthony Vugec. Keen to secure a slot so the 2yo that bought by his grandson Ben Seymour in […]
The appeal of harness trainer Aaron Goadsby against the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel to disqualify him for 5 years for failing to produce telephones registered in the names of his non-racing related businesses will be heard at 10.30am this morning in the NSW Supreme Court, and is sure to be of […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
