Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is Lord Bazalup. He is a pacer, but more accurately, he is a walker. Jamie Durnberger from Summit Bloodstock owns him. Summit Bloodstock is Australia’s larges harness race horse owner by volume. Ben Yole is Lord Bazalup’s trainer. Last week Ben was honoured by Harness Racing Australia with an award as the nation’s leading […]
A huge controversy has erupted in Tasmania over the racing authority Tasracing seemingly hooking the fields to allow the Ben Yole stable to race its horses up to four times in ten days at the expense of pacers from other stables in the State which are being denied a run at all. Under the Tasmanian […]
Dear Paul, I am writing as a follow up to my email sent on Friday 21st January which did not receive a reply and needs to be addressed. BOTRA has received a high volume of calls and messages in relation to the TTC meeting on January 26th since Friday the 21st. Participants are outraged with […]
Shaun, Thanks for your email from Friday and today raising concerns around the Wednesday 26th January TTC meeting at Elwick. In relation to the Friday email I was of the view that the industry communication that was released on Friday afternoon addressed your concerns and the issues raised. I quote from it below. “We are writing […]
Hot off the press is that there have been huge changes today to the management and the board at the fast drowning in failed property development debt Auckland Trotting Club. The Club CEO Mauro Barsi – the man who has presided over the wholesale mess for the past two and half years – has resigned, […]
Poor old Nathan Jack. He’s only been back in the game for five minutes, and a horse kicks him fair in the head. It must hurt like hell, but I guess he’s probably used to it. After all, Brent Fisher and the HRV Integrity Team have been kicking Nathan in the teeth for years now. […]
The track record over the 1780m at Redcliffe – a distance the best horses rarely run – is 1.53.3. All the best horses run over 1800m at Globe Derby. The track record there is 1.53.9. So Redcliffe is on paper 0.6 of a second faster than Globe Derby, but in reality it is at least […]
At a time when the harness racing industry in South Australia desperately needs to unite to grow (save?) the sport, it appears that there is a civil war going on down there between certain licensees. What you see above is a savage sledge that Shane Loone posted on Facebook about a young female trainer/driver. I […]
Remember the story we told you a couple of weeks ago about a horse called High Flying Harry, and how we believed the Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator Olivia Jarvis – the partner of a lawyer who is friendly with the horse’s trainer John Dunn – had erred badly by not finding that the driver Korbyn […]
The track record holder for the 2536 metre trip at Gloucester Park is Vampiro, who ran a mile rate of a very fast 1.54.1 in setting it back in December of 2020. Vampiro’s lead time that night was 67.3 seconds. Minstrel gave the record a bit of a half nudge when he won the Group […]
