Category: The Trots

nsw The Trots

The Hanging State Lives Up To It’s Name

by : peterprofitracing

NSW trot trainer Brendan Flaherty has been disqualified for 2 1/2 years for presenting his filly Gisselle to race with methamphetamine in its system. It is an outrageous penalty. No-one actually dopes their horses with meth, because it is obvious they will throw a positive swab if they do, which means that Gisselle’s positive was […]

Drivers The Trots West Australia

How Hot Was This? – Tell ‘Em the Punters Died Game

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https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPC02062610.mp4 This is race 6 at Gloucester Park last night. Number 3 Strike Force has been backed late from $15.00 into $7.50, and according to our mail from the corporates has been coupled up in multis and exotics for plenty. Kyle Harper drives it. He is the son of the multiple disqualified cheat Lindsay Harper. […]

The Trots

A Man Who Truly Loves the Trots

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Mick Boots (pictured above, left) is Australia’s biggest harness racing owner. He owns or owns shares in 300 horses. Pacer and trotters cost about $800 a week one average in training fees. Assume Mick Boots pays the equivalent of 200 training fees, and that means that he is paying $160 000 a week to have […]

Animal Welfare The Trots Trainers

Here We Go Again

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As you can see in the story below, trot trainer/driver Jordan Topping has form for animal welfare breaches. Her partner Ryan Veivers does too. This pair are not people who care properly for horses. Now we learn from the Harness Racing Australia website that last month Jordan Topping copped 2 x 6 month disqualifications, to […]

Animal Welfare Integrity The QRIC The Trots Trainers

QRIC Grant Special Permission For One Suspended Animal Abuser to Another Convicted Animal Abuser – Where is the Integrity in That? (FIRST PUBLISHED JAN 2025)

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Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6)  An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]

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