Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Luke McCarthy was charged with careless driving after causing interference to another runner in race 7 at Menangle on Saturday night. McCarthy pleaded guilty to the charge, and had his driving license suspended for 7 days. Under the rules of harness racing suspensions apply from when they are handed down, except if Harness Racing NSW […]
APG Gold have thrown the kitchen sink, the cat, the pool room, the spa and all the cars in the garage at next year’s yearling sale auctions, in a last ditch, all or nothing, desperate bid to stave off the invasion of the multi-national behemoth Nutrien who has walked out of nowhere and threatens to […]
A few weeks back we told you that Greg ‘Jingle’ Gangle – the CEO of the Wagga trots who had been imported from Canada to take up the role – had been working unvaccinated in breach of the Harness Racing NSW COVID-19 protocols, the NSW Govt Health Directives, and indeed the law. The CEO was […]
Wagga Harness Racing Club (WHRC) hope to be able to welcome chief executive Greg Gangle back to race days by the middle of next month. Gangle’s vaccination status has meant he has been unable to attend race meetings for more than a month, as per the state government and Harness Racing NSW’s rules. Gangle, who […]
This is the bloke you want to say g’day to at Menangle on Saturday night It was a big day out for young Lleyton Green at Newcastle this afternoon, with the kid driving a treble for his employers Dean and Kerry McDowell at the all up odd of $26.40 for your single gold coin. Not […]
Egodan was, until yesterday morning, a washed up veteran 10-year-old pacer who for the past 18 months had been seeing out the final days of his racing career in the back block town of Mildura, up near the NSW/Victoria border where the oranges grow and the green grass and the ice cold glass flow. In […]
We have written on numerous occasions about the extraordinary winning strike rate of horses owned by former Harness Racing NSW boss Rex Horne and his friend and sometime trainer Leon Jurd when they backed as if there is no tomorrow. In these stories we’ve also noted how rare it is for horses owned by the […]
Mark Billinger is a legend of South Australian harness racing. His whole family is. Dad Val fell in love with the trots as a kid driving a horse and cart around Adelaide delivering flowers. He became a hobby trainer and kept it up his whole life, even during the forty years he worked at the […]
Brendan ‘Pins’ Parnell is the CEO of Racing Queensland, the control body for harness racing in the Sunshine State. He is paid more than half a million dollars a year in the role. Uncle Shank is a young pacer. 18 months ago he was the subject of a high profile (in the industry) controversy over […]
I am not sure whether WA driver Shane Young is as crooked as a dogs hind leg, or a straight man who couldn’t drive to save his life. The jury is out. All I know is that he drove a $1.12 shot at Wagin tonight in a manner that severely compromised its chance of winning, […]
