Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The news filtering through from New Zealand this morning is that Operation Inca – the long running police investigation into race fixing at the trots – has today finally come to an end, with the last of the criminal charges against harness racing participants being discontinued this morning. This finally brings to a conclusion the […]
Seven weeks ago when the 1st round of rankings was released the 2024 Inter Dominion Pacing Championship was looking like the best series we’d seen for a long time. Then one thing or another happened and the top seeds starting dropping off like flies. Leap To Fame is gone. So is Swayzee. Better Eclipse, Major […]
There is an unconfirmed rumor floating around that the builders on the Globe Derby site may have broken the law. The whisper is that they cut down trees with the wrong permit. Protected trees that needed the right one to be touched. If the whispered words are right its cost them a $43 000 fine. […]
These are the whip rules. Thou shalt: Only apply the whip and/or the rein in a wrist only flicking motion whilst holding a rein in each hand with the tip of the whip pointed forward in an action which does not engage the shoulder. Thou shalt not: Generate force by using the elbow or shoulder […]
Are the South Australian trot Stewards blind? Or are the blind simply those that don’t want to see? Kevin Weidenbach’s horse didn’t shift in and lock wheels with Dani Hill’s horse on the home turn. They were nowhere near each other on the bend. The two horses came together in the straight, when Hill’s drive […]
HRNSW advises that an interim suspension has today been imposed on the licences of Jack Brown and Lucas Rando after DNA analysis was conducted by the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine on the urine samples provided by both drivers at the Goulburn Harness Racing Club meeting on 21 October 2024. The Victorian Institute of Forensic […]
John Shiels has been in the trot game a long time. He trains out of the Wagga Showgrounds. His daughter Kim does too. Their beloved son and grandson also keeps his pony at the showground stables. These people are the grassroots of harness racing, salt of the earth people who participate because they adore their […]
If you are going to pull over to drench your horse on the way to the races, then the Ampol Service Centre at Pheasant’s Nest isn’t the place to do it, for it gets a thousand cars every hour stopping there and the odds are that one of them might be a Steward, the last […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
Do you remember the story ‘Taking The Piss’ that we wrote a few weeks back about driver Jack Brown and the switched urine sample at Goulburn? Taking the Piss – Jacko Stooges the Stewards by Pulling the Old Switcheroo Well we didn’t name the fellow driver who provided Brown with a sample of their urine […]
