Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The favorite in this race is Atreacherous. It is trained by Jeremy Seal and driven by Ryan Hryhorec, who as we shall soon see is about to have a very bad night. Atreacherous is drawn in gate 2, but no-one expects him to lead because he hasn’t done so at his past 22 starts over […]
We move now to race 4, a contest for lowly rated horses in the NR50’s run over a mile. The market only has two in it, Icy Reception trained by Aaron Bain and driven by Wayne Hill at $2.15 and drawn gate 3, and the $2.50 pop Shazzam in gate 6, which is once again […]
And so we move to race 6, the final leg of the quaddie. Race 4 was the 2nd leg. Take My Wallet drawn the outside of the front in gate 6 is the $1.45 favorite. Just like the slaughtered shorty before it’s trained by Aaron Bain and driven by Wayne Hill. The main danger is […]
Connor Crook, the trainer of Fynn Frost NZ, pleaded guilty to a charge under Rule 273(1) for presenting the gelding to race with a bit not approved by Harness Racing Australia. Given the nature of the equipment in addition to the post-race veterinarian examination which failed to display any effect, Mr Crook was fined $500. […]
A decade ago harness racing trainer/driver Tony Pullicino was disqualified from holding a license for 12 years after recording his third TCO2 rule breach offence. It was the harshest penalty ever handed down. Andrew Bensley thought so too, even though he didn’t quite say it. He was right. I was reading this case the other […]
What you see above is an excerpt from a recent Victorian Racing Tribunal decision in the cases of trainer/drivers Zac Phillips, Tayla Nicholson and Rob O’Connell. The guts of it is that Phillips had possession of a blood spinning machine which he used to extract 4 vials of blood from horses trained by he, Nicholson, […]
One of the reasons that I first started writing this website – perhaps the main one, other than to stay sane while my wife and I were providing 24/7 care to my parents while they were dying from cancer, to help them achieve their wish of avoiding hospices and dying at home – was to […]
Peter Chadwick was appointed as Chief Steward of Harness Racing Victoria toward the end of last year. He has been to less than a handful of race meetings since commencing in the role, and hasn’t chaired a single one. For reasons unknown, Chadwick went missing in action for most of February, and wasn’t seen at […]
Race 1 1st @ $1.80 Race 2 1st @ $2,30 2nd @ 5,50 Quinella @ $7,30 Race 3 2nd @ $1,80 Race 4 1st @ $2.20 2nd @ $7,50 Quin @ $8.50 Race 5 3rd @ $16.00 Race 6 1st @ $5.50 2nd @ 2,60 3rd @ $34.00 Quin @ $10.30 Tri @ $360.50 Race […]
Over the past few years there has been a civil war fought in the Australian standardbred yearling sale industry between the incompetent and corrupt incompetents APG, and the multinational player Nutrien, one of the biggest companies in the world. Nutrien won, but only because of the ineptitude and arrogance of APG, who had become such […]
