Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So there it is. New Zealand’s premier racing writer and harness racing media identity openly admitting that the whole Robert and Jenna Dunn training set-up is a scam. Robert Dunn can’t train the largely South Island based team because he lives in the north. And Jenna Dunn doesn’t train them because she can’t. John Dunn trains […]
With all of the Ben Yole horses that were transferred into Robert Walters name on Monday pulled out of the fields at Launceston last night, and only the ones supposedly trained by Wayne Yole left in, we saw exactly why the crooked crew are so desperate to flood the fields with the weight of their […]
Popular local QLD harness racing identity Linda Graham travelled over to Ontario, Canada with her family this week to be with her eldest daughter Brittany as she makes her debut on the world stage hosting the coverage of Saturday night’s prestigious North American Cup meeting (Sunday morning our time). As all good racing people do […]
HRV Stewards today concluded inquiries regarding the conduct of Trainer/Driver Robert Walters during Stable inspections on 5 October 2023 and 24 November 2023. Mr Walters was found guilty to two charges of misconduct under AHRR 231(2) the particulars of which were: CHARGE 1 Robert Walters, a licensed Trainer and Driver with Harness Racing Victoria did […]
A couple of days away we wrote about how Team Yole and their backers had devised a plan to get around Tasracing’s Equity in Participation policy by getting Robert “Honest Bob” (because he isn’t) Walters licensed so that they could split the Yole horses among he and Wayne Yole and thus flood and stack the […]
As you will all recall, Tasracing wrote to you last week advising that it would not issue new warning off notices to the four participants adversely named in the Murrihy Report. We arrived at this decision after the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board overturned the racetrack bans on these individuals imposed by Tasracing in April. After […]
Stewards questioned licencee Mr Robert Walters’, concerned with evidence he had tendered at a previous licence inquiry. At the commencement of today’s inquiry Mr Walters admitted submitting to ORI falsified documents. Stewards, after investigating the circumstances into why and how Mr Walters had falsified the documents, subsequently charged him for breaching Australian Harness Racing (AHR) […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PEC13062405.mp4 Take a look at the replay above of race 1 at Penrith last night, and ask yourself this question. Was Josh Gallagher on the grey horse driving to win the race? Or was he driving to get the odds on favorite in the lead beaten? It sure looks like the latter to me. The […]
We have published a number of stories over the past few months bemoaning the reluctance of Stewards in many states to take action against horses that run up inside the marker pegs at the trots. In these stories we have repeatedly called upon the stipes to take a hard line on drivers who cheat to […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/REC12062412.mp4 Driver Ricky Gordon copped a 3-week suspension for an unacceptable drive on the early leader Left To Rocknroll in this race at Redcliffe last night, and so he should have too for he drove the horse at speeds that it wasn’t capable of runnng, and as result it dropped out at 700m mark to […]
