Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The dangers of lodging an ill thought out appeal to the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel were again higlighted last month in the case of Lleyton Green v HRSW. Green was appealing a 3 week suspension that he had incurred on a charge of causing or contributing to interference in a race at Penrith early […]
The news that trainer Emma Stewart has escaped the noose by having her 6 month disqualification for race day drenching 2 horses reduced to a mere $12 000 fine has shocked many in harness racing, not least of all the Stewards. Treating your horse with anything on race day it a huge no no, and […]
Stable change for Aardie’s Express 4 June 2024 , News By Adam Hamilton Boom Kiwi-bred mare Aardie’s Express has joined the powerhouse Jason Grimson stable. With Jack Trainor facing a possible stint on the sidelines over two swab irregularities, he and Canadian-based owner Mike Tanev opted for the stable change. Aardie’s Express has joined Grimson’s stable […]
Jack Trainor has seen the writing on the wall and done an Emma Stewart overnight. All of his stable horses – including last start Group 1 winner Aardies Express – have been transferred to Jason Grimson in the past 24 hour, with the transfers approved by Harness Racing NSW. That’s what you call jumping before […]
On the 5th of December last year trot trainer Emma Stewart was disqualified for 6 months after Stewards caught her race-day treating two horses by drenching them with something that she says was saline, but the Stewards say – quite correctly in my view – contained a perfomance enhancing substance. Stewart appealed the decision and […]
The punters who took $1.40 about Golly Gee Fellas in race 2 at Newcastle yesterday afternoon were left in tears after the favorite galloped out of the gate and lost all chance before the race had even begun. It was a sick beat that once more shows why you should never take the tomato sau, […]
The mail is that Jack Trainor’s soon to be announced second positive swab involves another NZ import from the Souh Island, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, for plenty of the trainers there are dodgy and so are some of the vets. Apparently it took the world’s number 1 racing analytic facility the Hong Kong Racing Laboratory […]
As a New Zealand citizen myself – the only Geebung born, bred and raised Kiwi that I know – I fully understand the reluctance of the average All Blacks fan wearer to reach into their pocket and pull out a quid. Money is hard to come by in Aeroatoa so spending it hurts But when […]
During the week we made trenchant criticism 0f the HRNSW for seemingly failing to take tissue samples from the body of the pacer Saginaw after he was euthanised on track at Menangle following an alleged colic attack. Less than a week later, on the opposite side of country, another pacer had the terrible misfortune to […]
Nobody knows Albion Park better than Dixon and he concedes barrier eight – inside the back row – makes things very tricky over the short 1660m distance. “It takes a lot of things out of your own hands,” Dixon said. “It’s too short a race to drag right back and get away from the inside, […]
