Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Albion Park is being shut down, sooner rather than later. No-one seems to know the exact date of lights out yet, but it is looking very much like it’s going to be somewhere between after next years Winter Carnival and Xmas 2024. Albion Park have absolutely no say in this. The club doesn’t own the […]
The word from the Creek is that the Stewards are going to lay racing rule breach charges at Jason Grimson and Jack Trainor over the melee at Albion Park on Blacks A Fake night, and that their penalties for bringing racing into disrepute are likely to be very stern. That’s the least of the pair’s […]
Every rugby league fan know who the young man standing second from the left it. It’s Peter V’Landys of course. The bloke to his left (as we are watching) is less well known to people outside of the harness racing bubble. His name is John Dumesny, the recently retired CEO of Harness Racing NSW. The […]
Yesterday we offered an apology to Kiwi horseman Simon McMullen for publishing a story about his having thrown a personal positive swab to drugs during a recent race meeting, after his partner contacted us to deny it, and to throw in a gobful of abuse too. Among other things, Kara Holmes claimed: I make up […]
Did you say the recently retired Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny (ponounced Dumesy)? Give yourself a gold star. John Dumesny drove 5 winners, and by his own reckoning was at one stage equal leading driver in the Western Districts area. Very briefly. Here is another winner Dumesny drove. I am watching a ‘A Life […]
The South Australian harness racing Stewards – who are generally regarded across the industry as the least competent in the land – have imposed the most draconian penalty on well respected long-time trainer Lou Trotta that have been seen for a long time, if ever. Trotta has been directed that for the next 18 months, […]
15. (1)Stewards are empowered – (a) to direct and control at any time the activities of persons licensed under these rules and anyone else appointed, employed or engaged in any aspect of the harness racing industry, concerning the application of these rules; (b) to entertain and determine all matters under question or in dispute at or […]
Stewards resumed an inquiry which had been opened and adjourned into an incident in the Raceday Stalls Area at Globe Derby Park on Saturday 29th July 2023 following the running of Race 3 the GLOBE BAR & GAMING PACE in which Mr.Trotta was the trainer of WHATA OPTIMIST and Mr. Loone trainer of STAR WRITER, […]
We published a story earlier stating that Simon McMullen was one of the licensees who threw a positive swab in random tests at the track a few weeks ago. Simon’s missus got in tough to accuse us of making things up about her man. As we politely told her in not so many words, why […]
