Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you are going to bag a bloke to your mate while you are standing up at the trough doing a snakes hiss it’s best to check the stalls first to make sure that the bloke you are bagging out isn’t inside there listening. That’s a lesson that driver Chris Geary learned recently when he […]
A 31-year-old Hobart man has been charged after allegedly being found with $580,000 in cash inside a shopping cooler bag. Officers from Tasmania Police, Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force were involved in the months-long investigation, which was part of an operation targeting alleged drug distribution syndicates in Tasmania. Police intercepted the man while […]
Mitchell Reese is a bad egg. The NSW Racing Appeals Panel said it, not me. These are some of their words, contained in the written decision dismissing the appeal of Reece’s ex-partner Rebecca Brown against a 5-year-disqualification she incurred for drug cheating: … numerous 2016 SMS messages establish that Mitchell Reese and Nathan Carroll in […]
The decision in Aaron Goadsby’s case against Harness Racing NSW will be delivered today. Goadsby has challenged the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Board to increase his penalty for refusing to hand over his phones from 12 months to 5 years, without warning him that it intended to do so. The warning – […]
The appeal of harness trainer Aaron Goadsby against the decision of the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel to disqualify him for 5 years for failing to produce telephones registered in the names of his non-racing related businesses will be heard at 10.30am this morning in the NSW Supreme Court, and is sure to be of […]
There are some NSW trainers who appear to be under-performing this season compared to the last. Brad Hewitt trained 69 winners Statewide from 299 starters last year at a strike rate of 23.1%. He won 22 from 72 in the city at a strike rate of 30.6%. Hewitt finished 7th in State Premiership and 5th […]
Our mail is that appointments to the top race day integrity roles in Tasmania have been made. According to our sources Martin Knibbs has been appointed as Chief Steward Thoroughbred. Those who have worked with Martin in Queensland will tell you that he is an excellent Steward and a very nice bloke, and I have […]
You might have noticed that certain hitherto highly successful harness racing and thoroughbred stables have dropped off the pace recently, and are no longer getting the results that they were not too long ago. We are told that’s at least in part, and maybe whole, because the power stack of performance enhancing peptides that they […]
If you were a favorite punter betting on the Menangle trots today you’d be hurting right now and wishing you’d stayed in bed until at least the start of the second last race. The first nine favorites in a row on the card all went down. Seven of them were at odd-on. Three of the […]
AHRR.66(e) A horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a lower finishing position in a race if a horse races on the inside of a marker post or if its sulky or part thereof goes on the inside of a marker post How many engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? […]
