Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The NZ Racing Integrity Board adjudicator’s decision to fine trainer Cran Dalgety just $5750 for what was his eighth positive swab offence is quite frankly baffling, and so is the rationale for it. His star mare Beside Me threw a confirmed positive to the potent anti-inflammatory painkiller Meloxicam at the Nelson race meeting in January. […]
Team Yole and the Fords have more appeals going at the moment that the Surf Life Savers. Here is the current status of where their matters are at. Ben Yole – Appeal against the decision of the Independent Stewards Panel on 30 January 2025 – Disqualification of his licence for a period of 3 years […]
Last night for the second time in a matter of months the Saturday night metropolitan meeting at Globe Derby was cancelled due to the state of the track. What a circus it was too. Trainers had travelled from far and wide to race at the meeting, with Emma Stewart bringing a horse from Victoria, and […]
Crystal Hackett is one of New Zealand’s most promising young drivers. She is also one of the bravest. It looked like the little champ actually enjoyed this ride. Crazy brave Crystal. Don’t try this at home.
Is Michael Young, if you will excuse the terminology, “taking the piss” out of Harness Racing in WA? Our of administrators, stewards and his contemporaries and of course the public? Not my words but an oft repeated phrase amongst the fraternity, many of whom wonder how he is still licensed after his 3 year disqualification […]
What the hell was Peter McMullen doing here in the 1st race at Albion Park on Mister Charles? Mister Charles was the 2nd favorite in the race. The leader My Ultimate Buddha was even money. Still Rockin in the death had been the medium of heavy support, backed from $13.00 into $7.00. Buddha led but […]
Kiwi trainer/driver Nigel McGrath is a persistent serial cheat. In 2004 he was disqualified for 3 years (halved on appeal) for using the highly controversial banned performance enhancing drug Blue Magic, in part of a broader scandal that cost two men their lives. Years later he was suspended from driving – but incredibly not from […]
Harness Racing New Zealand is conducting a formal review of the recent controversial incident whereby the qualification rules for the prestigious 2YO Young Guns Trot series were altered to allow horses that hadn’t contested a heat to gain a place in the field for the final (the original published conditions were that only horses that […]
Hometown trainer Boris Devcic had two runners in race 6 at Mildura last Friday night. Devcic drove My Ultimate Levi, which was friendless in the betting blowing from $15.00 out to $31.00. Stablemate Noble Trick, driven by Connor Crook, was heavily backed, firming from $9.50 into $4.00. We soon sound out why. Joe Got Rolled […]
We have been writing for some time now about what appears to be an ongoing rort with the TAB fixed odds prices. Our contention has been that an insider at the TAB involved in setting the opening markets for the Albion Park trots has been deliberately putting up horses at inflated odds so that someone […]
