Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On 15 August 2025, peterprofit.com published a post titled ‘Stewards on the Punt’ (the ‘story’). This story has since been removed from the site. We made an important factual error when we published that story, which requires immediate correction. We retract what we wrote in the story about the prohibitions on the betting activities of […]
NSW trot trainer Shane Harmey has been stood down as Stewards continue their investigations into the mysterious unreported deaths of two you seemingly healthy pacers and the disappearance of another seven standardbreds, the majority of them owner by Summit Bloodstock, whose principal Jamie Durnberger-Smith was present yesterday at the first stage of the inquiry into […]
You can’t use just two meetings to claim reduced prizemoney……you need to know the programs for the year and the total annual prizemoney. Doesn’t NSW currently work on a Tiered meeting system, so some meetings had the all circa $6k and some the all circa $9k races? This changes it from Tiered meetings to Tiered […]
HRNSW CEO Peter Buckman – Someone please find this man a calculator, for it appears that he can’t count Harness Racing NSW announcement this week that it is introducing a “tiered prizemoney structure” has caused outrage among the majority of industry participants, and for very good reason too HRNSW CEO Peter Buckman makes the disingenuous […]
Respected harness racing participant Ben Settree’s concerns about the future of harness race breeding and indeed that of the industry itself are vividly illustrated by the results from last week’s APG Mixed Winter Sale. It was an abject disaster. Only 29 of the 126 lots offered sold. The overall clearance rate was just 23.02%. Even […]
Ben Settree (pictured) punching well above his weight Ben Settree and his wife Melanie were for many years among NSW’s largest and most successful standardbred breeders. They also own Grand Circuit performer Kanena Provlima. An open letter about the Eureka. It must be noted that HRA should be applauded for trying to reinvigorate harness racing. […]
I told you CEF (Cobbitty Equine Farm) would end up dealing direct with DCF (Diamond Creek Farms)…. Shame about Legendary Hanover, I would breed to him standing in NSW but his record and price point was never going to work for DCF at CEF. Way faster then Cannibal and not much dearer and way cheaper […]
Archie I’ve just read your article on Greg Fleming. I just wanted to give you a few facts about him and you can do as please with them. I have known Greg for over 30 years and I can guarantee you he is not a crook. He made the fatal mistake of employing David Moran […]
By Garrick Knight; Harness Xpress Rumours have a habit of getting around like wildfire in our relatively small industry and the main one over the past fortnight relates to the former Alabar Stud. The well-appointed 102-hectare seaside Waiau Pa property is up for lease after being vacated by Alabar recently. Concurrently, Auckland Trotting Club officials […]
Finally, fifteen months after the $100 000 Hunter Regional Championship final was run and won, the result of the feature race has been determined after the runner that finished first past the post The Cid has been disqualified for throwing a positive swab to the prohibited substance harpagoside, an anti-inflammatory painkiller that is commonly found […]
