Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
UBETCHA TIGERPIE– Pre-race blood sample. Worked forward to the lead passing the 1000 metres. Stewards questioned driver Michael Stanley with regards to the tactics he adopted through the early and middle stages of the event, in addition to the overall performance of the gelding which tired over the concluding stages to finish in sixth placing […]
In January of this year the young former pony trots star Chelsea Prothero (pictured above with boyfriend Seaton Grima) applied to Harness Racing Victoria for the grant of a trainers license. On the 11th of January she was interviewed by HRV Steward John Packer, and based on her successfully passing the interview, on the day […]
I dubbed Seaton Grima the next Jason Grimson in a story the other week, and for good reason too, for just like Grimson he has a miraculous ability to take a tried horse from another trainer and put lengths on it. Grima did it again today at Menangle with a pacer from Canberra named Argent […]
The Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board has today denied Ben and Tim Yole and Nathan and Mitch Ford a stay of proceedings on the interim warning offs issued to the quartet in the wake of the release of the Murrihy Report. This means that none of the four will be able to train and drive unless […]
Last week’s announcement of the contenders for the NSW harness Horse of the Year awards has led many to ask what the criteria for selection of the winner is. https://www.hrnsw.com.au/news/4185/finalists-announced-for-nsw-horse-of-the-year-awards Here’s the answer. HRNSW RACEHORSE AWARDS CRITERIA 1. Only horses trained by a NSW licenced and domiciled trainer may be considered for nomination. a) A […]
Adman Hamilton, again writing on the HRNZ website, claims that Leap To Fame is attempting to become the first horse to win the Inter Dominion, Hunter Cup and Miracle Mile in a single campaign. He’s having a bad day is our Mr Hamilton, for he’s got it wrong again. Leap To Fame will not be […]
Adman Hamilton reports on the HRNZ website that the Barry Purdon trained pacer Sooner The Better didn’t qualify for the Group 1 Chariots of Fire at Menangle by running 4th in the Hondo Grattan Stakes last Saturday night, and that the horse will have to try to qualify via the Paleface Adios in a fortnight. […]
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As you can see above, unless there are two of them by the same name, the former Victorian steward Barry Delaney now works as a starter for Harness Racing Victoria. Good luck to him you might say, except that there is a problem. Barry Delaney has been appointed as one of the three interstate members […]
At one stage Jason Grimson had the Kiwi import Fire Fox flying, and had it winning races hand over foot and running placings in prestigious affairs like the Wondai’s Mate. Then all of a sudden in April last year the Sir Jason magic wore off, and in ten races since then Firefox has gone winless […]
