Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Trot Rods is a cracker. Just ask Racing Queensland’s spin doctor department, they will tell you. Every bastard wants to bet on a one lap pace race, they’d be mad not to. That’s why the turnover on the Rods is so high. Check this out if you don’t believe me. The QLD TAB turnover […]
Until recently a community minded harness racing lover named Christine Clement used to – out of the goodness of her heart and for no personal reward – but a hundred dollars a week worth of sandwiches and cakes from the club run canteen at the Wagga track, take them down to the stables, and share […]
Dani Hill drove Flame Blaster as dead as a doornail at Mildura on Friday night. She hooked it. The horse was three wide with a trail when the one whose back she was on started to wilt and fall back in her lap. Hill could and should have gone, for she was going nowhere but […]
How do two guys in their late 20’s/early 30’s start off their careers as owners of harness racing horses with just 2 horses, and just 27 months later end up owning 216, many of them purchased from New Zealand? How do the same pair of blokes who started out with a postage stamp 2 years […]
Take a look at this replay above will you, and tell me if you think the infringement – if that’s what you call it, which I don’t – in the incident here is worthy of a 15 day suspension. You are looking at the horse in the death in the red with green V and […]
How could Michael Stanley possibly have applied a poultice to the legs of his runner in the $210 000 APG Final Soho Alamasi two days prior to the race, and not have washed or worked the horse for two days leading into the event? Knowing that horses could not be treated with a poultice after […]
How about this one to highlight the absurdity of the way in which the new NZ harness racing judiciary system is working for the benefit of the industry and everyone in it. Driver Robbie Close won a fillies and mares maiden at Invercargill on the 30th of April. For reasons known only to himself, as […]
Tricky Ric was a top class Kiwi square gaiter who ran placings in two Group 1 races and ran close up in elite races behind topliners of the ilk of Sundees Sun, Enhance Your Calm and Bolt For Brilliance before he was purchased for a substantial sum by WA interests, and sent over to race […]
DECEMBER 21, 2021 HARNESS On Friday, 17 December 2021 Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) Stewards conducted an inquiry into a report from the RWWA Harness Racing Department regarding the Handicap Win Only Earnings (HWOE) as recorded in the National Harness Racing Database for TRICKY RIC NZ, since that gelding arrived from New Zealand and […]
How does it work? There are two parts to the conditioned racing system. The first part relates to the grouping together of horses based on the stakes they have earned for WINNING races with allowances made for races won as a 2 or 3 year old and limits placed on higher staked races for all ages. This […]
