Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mitch Ford pleaded guilty to the charge of having Amphetamine, Ecstasy, Benzodiazepines and Cocaine Metabolites in his system when he presented to drive at the Hobart meeting on Sunday the 5th of February, and was sentenced on the basis of his claim that the drugs were the residue from a single pill that he had taken […]
Harness Racing South Australia last year declared it Southern Stars yearling sale an outstanding success, and has done so again this year, but at the risk of the peak body’s CEO Dean Elliott calling this author a fabricator again and declaring shame upon us we have to ask the question: has the sale been any […]
Watch this. That twirling baton/flying spear aimed straight at driver Emma Ison, and landed in her lap. Ison drove the horse that finished 2nd in the Cup. Ducking the baton/spear cost her 2 lengths. He horse was only beaten by one. The only mention of the bayonet/spear – which was actually a marker peg – […]
You might remember our story a couple of weeks ago about the serial SA harness blow up merchant Lou Trotta being handed a 14 month disqualification for abusing first his own driver after a race, and then later a steward at the hearing into the original matter. It was Trotta’s umpteenth conduct breach offence, and […]
This is the Stewards Summary listed on the form of Saturday night’s Menangle winner Familiar Tricks for it’s previous start. Note that Familiar Tricks was subject to an Age Horse Vet Examination. All well and good you might say, and congrats to the Stewards for telling us. No. An aged horse vet exam is usually […]
So the way to get Illavabubbles beaten is now obvious. Make her run two quick early quarters in a row. Illavabubbles has had 8 starts for Jason Grimson, and has won 6 of them. https://www.harness.org.au/racing/horse-search/?horseId=819909 She showed blinding early speed in each of the wins, but was allowed to back off and run a comfortable […]
The remaining 6 races from the aborted Globe Derby trot meeting tonight has been rescheduled to Monday, which at least gives participants a chance to win some money that might otherwise have been lost if it had been abandoned, even though it leaves many of the drivers having to explain to their boss why they […]
The Globe Derby meeting tonight has been called off after just three races due to an on course power outage knocking out the lights. As you can see from the photo at the top the rest of the suburb still has the lights on, so the power failure is restricted to the track. How do […]
A comparison of published statistics for the 2022/2023 financial year across the four main harness racing jurisdictions reveals that Harness Racing NSW is streets ahead of its rivals when it comes to the taking and testing of swabs and samples from horses racing in the State. Swabs Taken and Tested NSW 10 224 VIC 7000+ […]
A draft of an article about drug testing in NSW that was being worked on by the author was briefly published in error on this site this morning. It has been removed as soon as the author became aware of its publication. Fortunately it had not been read by mny subscribers at the time. The […]
