Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Good Morning, You correctly note that WA has a minimum Metro Stake of $21,000, the highest in Australia. It is completely unsustainable and is being funded on the “never never”. In season 2025 (financial year ending July 30th 2025), WA paid out total harness stakes (Metro and Country) of $30,561,571. The Revenue generated from turnover […]
Hi Archie, Chester and I are always comfortable when we stagger off the front verandah and wander over the road to the trots at Pinjarra. It’s nice and warm inside the pavilion and I have long been a fan of ‘Why pay for heating when someone lays it on for nothing”. Simply good management of […]
The weekly costs to race a pacer or trotter are roughly the same in every state of Australia. Travel costs differ from state to state, but base costs of feed, rent, supplements, vets and equipment differ little. Which is why prizemoney matters so much, particularly in the main states of NSW, QLD, VIC and WA, […]
A month or so back we tipped you off that a couple of trot drivers had been caught with prohibited substances in their systems after without notice drug testing was conducted at a Wagga race meeting. Drug Scandal Rocks the Riverina One of them was leading Riverina reinsman Blake Jones. The substance concerned was cocaine. […]
PRINCE NASEEM NZÂ Shortly after the start jumped an object on the track and breaking gait for a short distance no action was taken against the Gelding in this instance due to the multiple false starts. Inclined to hang in over the concluding stages of the event when placed under pressure. There were two false starts […]
A couple of years ago we told you that junior trot driver Tasmyn Potter was a whizz kid and the next big thing. Today at Wagga the precocious young Potter proved us right. Six winners she drove. Six from seven, with a third in the other. What an incredible effort. And to make it even […]
I get that the QRIC are a bit short of starters at the moment with two of them suspended from duty in relation to the wrong horse affair, but really are things that desperate that it come to this? Neil Finnigan is the Chief Steward of Harness Racing, and gets paid somewhere in the vicinity […]
It has come to our attention that our story earlier this week about the Albion Park starters involved in the accidental ring-in affair was not quite right. The starters are stood down from duty on full pay, but not for 3 months. They are suspended from work while a disciplinary investigation process is undertaken, and […]
Cambridge as we know it is dead. The track still remains, but after this week’s votes to hand it and everything else except the unsecured debts over to Harness Racing New Zealand, the club that for so many years is gone, or survives as nothing but an asset-less shell anyway. Soon when the unsecured creditors […]
Archie Noticed while visiting Marburg (Monday) and AP (Tuesday) that starters John Peterson and Jason Suli are still nowhere to be seen. Two people in the mobile and on the standing start platform. One is K.Williams (long time member of the industry usually swab collector and other roles, and also steward Lisa Bahr, former driver. […]
