Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
On Friday night the 6th of May we wrote a story about the Summit Bloodstock owned/Ben Yole trained pacer Machs Mareta running and earning prizemoney in low grade restricted races that it wasn’t eligible to enter. There was no mention whatsoever in any Stewards Report about an inquiry being launched into the matter. We questioned […]
The incident you see above happened right as they crossed the line at Albion Park in the protest race last night. Angus Garrard was driving the horse circled in the yellow. It was steaming home through the middle late and coming fast, but just was reached the winning post the horse inside him bored out […]
Darrell ‘the Dazzler’ Graham drove I Am Sparta, the horse in the white with blue and red sleeves and yellow cup here. It was the firm $4.40 second favourite. Noddy (Pete McMullen) drove Gotta Go Milking, the one directly on Graham’s outside in the pale blue with red, white and stars. That horse had been […]
On the 24th of April a pacing mare named Mach’s Mareta – owned by Summit Bloodstock and Bain, and trained by their man Chainsaw Yole – started in a race at Hobart. It ran second, and earned $1530 dollars in prizemoney. The problem is that the race was restricted to horses rated NR53-57. Machs Mareta […]
Velocity Stride is a walker, Coming into race 6 at last night’s Hobart meeting it’s record over the past two seasons was 1 win from 46 starts, and it was about to run around in a race of higher class than it had been getting dizzy in lately. So it was a huge surprise to […]
