Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last night the heats of the prestigious Group 1 Gold Tiara for the 2YO’s fillies were conducted at Bathurst, and fans like me had the great fortune to watch some top class young pacers in action showing us their wares. There were six heats run. The winner of each heat and the 4 fastest 2nd […]
Junior driver Jack Brown has only two drives at Menangle this afternoon, but he is going to a very busy boy regardless with 2 adjourned inquiries from his drive on Sara Ta Sloy to be reopened and heard prior to the meeting. The first of the inquiries is into why the reinsman put his hand […]
This Sportswriter 2yo of Damien Burns named Hesitate looks to be very good doesn’t he? The colt is two for two in his short racing career after having bolted in on debut at Melton in late January when he parked in the breeze before running 28.8 and 28.3 home to record a 1.55.3 mile, and […]
As we have highlighted in recent stories, South Australian trot trainer Ryan Hryhorec told the NSW Stewards that he wasn’t able to bring 4 horses up to Broken Hill in a 3 horse float to compete in the Broken Hill Cup because the float had broken down late on Friday arvo. Funnily enough the HRNSW […]
I’ve been going to Albion Park since I was not yet born baby in her belly. I was there on my uncle Bert’s shoulders at the sand gallops track when I was little kid, and I was there on my dad’s shoulders at the trots. My brother and sister and I used to race down […]
Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre* *NOTE – Review Chair Graham Quirk was not involved in reviewing the Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre due to his role on the Board of Racing Queensland, which owns the Albion Park Raceway site. The new Brisbane Indoor Sports Centre venue is proposed to be a 12-court, high performance, community and para-sport […]
Four horses were attributed as being late scratched from the Broken Hill Cup meeting on Friday night. The problem is that Hryhorec only travels pulling a 3 horse float. And that one of the four late scratchings – a pacer named Whodat Boodat – is actually trained by Toby Ryan, who has a runner in […]
Last year the then stood down Western Australian Trotting Association (WATA) member Duro Margaretic launched legal action seeking to have the association’s referendum of members on the issue of selling circa 5 hectares of its 14 hectare holdings in and around the Gloucester Park track to a property developer for $10 million paid in 5 […]
Western Australian harness racing participants don’t know whether they are Arthur or Martha at the moment. The people who run the government appointed peak body Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) never have. RWWA sees the future of the sport to be continuing to race at Gloucester Park. It also believes that it a grand […]
Bronson Munro (pictured above) is an infamous sporting racist who, despite being part Maori himself, in 2016 got banned from playing footy for the better part of a year by the Canterbury Rugby Football Union after he called a Fijian born opponent a ‘black c**t’ during a game. Munro showed no repentance for his vile […]
