Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By Chris Barrett November 24, 2024 — 5.00am Harness racing is embroiled in a drug-testing scandal after two up-and-coming drivers from Sydney submitted urine samples that were found with all but mathematical certainty to have come from the same person. In a bombshell case like few others in Australian sport and racing, Jack Brown, 20, […]
The dream team are back – Trainer John and driver Brent Livingstone, aka Hot And Dangerous (Owner Clint’s the And) Who needs Jason Grimson and his steroid pumped muscles and tatts, when you can have Johnny Livingstone and his coke bottle glasses instead? Livingstone showed the world how its done with ex-Grimson trained horses when […]
The Wolf Signs Divided Open Pace at Albion Park doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a really really interesting little pace, mainly because it acts as a litmus test about whether any trainer can get a horse going again after Jason Grimson has had it and it has left his care. Many have tried and […]
HARNESS Racing New South Wales advises that the licences of Neville Hargraves and Paul Sapio have been suspended pursuant to Australian Harness Racing Rule (AHRR) 183 after Stewards commenced an investigation into a report received that WHYIMAN had been stomach tubed or attempted to be stomach tubed prior to its engagement enroute to the Menangle […]
Chris Svanosio suddenly became very disinterested in driving when he realised that Highpoint had no chance of winning or running a place in race 7 at Melton last night. Me thinks he might have been more interested in dropping a ratings point. If that was his aim he succeeded. At the expense of course of […]
These are the trees that cost Mr Seymour’s team $43 000 for cutting down with the wrong permit. I wouldn’t pay 2 cents for them myself. They’re ugly bloody things. But so is what comes next. Now you see them. Now you don’t.
Major Mal is a 7-year-old pace who until tonight hadn’t won a race in its past 39 starts, with his winless drought extending for almost two years. That’s because Mal wasn’t trained by the Miracle Maker, our good mate Seaton Grima. He is now, and the drought’s over. Super Seaton had only had him for […]
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. […]
