Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
