Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The big questions in harness racing tonight are how many of the Vicbred Super Series finals Emma Stewart wins, and how much prizemoney her stable takes home. Let’s see if we can work it out. Race 1 – 4yo Entires and Geldings Pace $150 000 Stewart trains 5 of the 12 runners in this race […]
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
So what has the Auckland Trotting Club’s president Jamies ‘Watches’ Mackinnon achieved with his messages to members sent out this morning? Let’s number them for posterity shall we? Watches has variously: Confirmed that everything peter profit has been writing about the Chinese land developer not coming up with the $90 million lump sum required to […]
The Auckland Trotting Club has filled a casual vacancy by appointing the President’s daughter to the board. No advertising of the role. No call for expressions of interest. No invitation for members to apply. No testing of the market. No merit based selection process. President Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon merely steps out of the room for […]
Early favorite Akuta is out of this year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup. The Nathan Purdon trained 5YO has reportedly broken down in his early lead up work, and won’t be seen again this year, with his future is said to be under a cloud. Akuta becomes the 2nd topline pacer from the Purdon barn to […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
Disgraced trot trainer Greg Bennett has lost again in his latest of a long string of attempts to regain his license, with the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal last month ruling that it has no jurisdiction to hear his attempt to appeal Harness Racing NSW’s refusal to hear his application to be relicensed, leaving him nowhere […]
Dean Elliott, the chief executive enabler Harness Racing South Australia announced yesterday that trainer Shane Loone has been charged with corruption, deception, improper conduct and betting offences in relation to a race at Gawler last month. If HRSA had done its job properly in the first place it never could have happened. About three years […]
Here is the guts of what the Stewards say happened, with a bit of our commentary incorporated into the tale. Shane Loone has two horses in race 6 at Gawler on the 12th of August, Majoreholeinmypocket and Illawong Kim. Loone nominates himself as the driver of Majorholeholeinmypocket. Given that he couldn’t drive a nail into […]
Long-term subscribers to this site will remember the case of the ring-in at Globe Derby in September 2021, when one horse from the Shane Loone stable was substituted for another in a race, and then the ringer went out and set the race up for another Loone horse by attacking the leader and favorite in […]
