Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cameron Davies. Jack Callaghan. Jack Trainor. All three caught it at Menangle, and each has been in both close and casual contact with a large number and wide range of other harness racing participants. Poor buggers, at Christmas and all. We extend our thoughts to them and our wishes for a speedy recovery, and hope […]
All horses trained by Jason Grimson and Jack Trainor have been scratched from the meeting at Newcastle tonight. Trainor is not driving at the meeting. As we advised you this morning there has been an outbreak of COVID-19 at the the Menangle Training Centre that is being hidden from the public by the racing authorities. […]
They say actions speak louder than words, but sometimes the converse is true. Actions are but fleeting, and often seen by none or few. Words stay on the page for all to see. Here are Adam Fairley’s. Is it really in the best interests of the sport for the pedigree analysist for Cobbitty Equine Farm […]
COVID-19 has swept through Menangle, and a number of participants are seriously ill with the disease. Those known to have contracted it to date are Inter Dominion winning trainer Jason Grimson, leading driver Cameron Hart, junior driver Will Rixon, and the Menangle farrier, a fellow named Judd. It is believed that Hart caught the disease […]
There is nothing like a totally impartial unbiased Director of a Principal Racing Association is there? Anyone in NSW know where we might find one? Not here, that’s for sure.
Click on Watch on YouTube The man talking in this video is former Premiership winning NSW harness racing trainer and driver Chris Gleeson, who in 1996 was warned off for life for corruption. That ban was lifted after 14 years, but Gleeson is an undesirable who will never be allowed back into the sport as […]
We’ve received a large volume of correspondence relating to our story yesterday about former HRNSW official Adam Fairley being soon to appointed to replace Craig Meagher on the board of the organisation. No-one who has contacted us is in favour of the appointment. What we have been told is that while Fairley was a senior […]
The former Kiwi pacer Nerano has had six starts since coming across the ditch. It’s won them all, and done it in brilliant fashion too. That’s why is was so surprising that there was no money for it in race 4 at Wagga on Tuesday night. There was plenty of money for So Much Bettor, […]
In Australian racing parlance a bowler is someone who pretends to be doing something, when in fact someone else is doing it. In US racing they call the person a beard. A lot of people around the traps say that a former long-time stable hand named Craig Cross is a bowler for his relative and […]
South Australian harness racing is about as healthy as an 80 year old pack a smoker with COVID. This announcement was made today by Harness Racing SA. The Southern Cross Series is their equivalent of the NSW Breeders Challenge, or the Vic Bred Super Series, or the Triad in Queensland. In other words it is […]
