Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
For the 8th consecutive year Queensland harness racing has returned a 7-figure loss, taking the total losses over these 8 years to over $45 million. The only good news is that the loss this has been reduced to ‘only’ a million dollars, but still it is unsustainable in the long term, and something has to […]
Independent investigator Ray Murrihy early last month released his interim report into the allegations of animal cruelty are race fixing made against trainer Ben Yole, but to the disappointment of most the key questions were not answered, with those to be addressed in Murrihy’s final report due to be released at the end of the […]
Ratings The ratings system is a national one, adopted by all but one state in Australia. However in my view, with Tasmania having full race fields and only racing usually two race dates per week, the ratings system is not conducive to the best outcome for competitive racing. Tasmanian handicap conditions need to effect changes […]
Whoee Johnson is well tried 9YO pacer who has had 113 starts across 6 seasons at a variety of tracks. The fastest time he ever run and won in any of them was 1.58.6. Last night at Globe Derby the horse was backed off the map from $5.00 into even money ($2.00). It led out […]
Last year New Zealand stewards caught a small time trainer in New Zealand named Sheryl Wigg treating 3 horses on race day, much the same as Victoria’s leading trainer Emma Stewart was caught treating two of her horses on race day a couple of weeks back prior to the Maryborough Cup . The substance that […]
There are rumours swirling Victoria that a leading harness racing trainer from the north of the state may soon be in the news for a positive swab that might cause him a few problems. The trainer, a multiple Group 1 winner, is said to have thrown the positive with one of his horses to Levamisole, […]
As predicted, Copy That won’t be coming to Brisbane after his connections yesterday scratched him from the ID23 series, leaving Simply Sam as the only Kiwi trained rep left in the once great trans-Tasman battle. Unless it can produce a miracle by winning a Group 1 at home over the next 8 weeks that horse […]
If anyone other than driver Michael Stanley can work out what he was thinking with his drive on Rock N Roll Doo in the Kilmore Cup then they are the next Sigmund Freud, for it was nothing but crazy. Stanley was driving the horse that many rate as the best stayer in Australia, so why […]
About 3 months ago I sent the Harness Racing NSW Integrity Manager Michael Prentice the complaint reproduced below about the central west Chairman of Stewards, one Michael Jasprizza. It was never responded to or properly addressed. Although we made no direct complaint about M. Jasprizza’s actions in the district, it should have been obvious to […]
At the start of this month we exclusively broke the story below about the mare Carla’s Pixel being sold online to US interests for $300 000, allegedly in foal to Captain Treacherous. We said allegedly, because our mail was that the mare – whose first foal by the Captain recently sold for $270 000 – […]
