Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has today announced an independent review arising from the circumstances of the IRT 2YO Young Guns Final Mobile Trot, Race 3, held at Alexandra Park on Saturday, 10 May 2025. The review will address questions and concerns raised, and make recommendations to HRNZ. This review follows industry discussion surrounding the […]
Take a look at race 8 at Globe Derby on Monday afternoon and keep your eye on Deadline, the horse in the death. Did its driver Kevin Weidenbach go for home a lap too early? It sure looked like it. The Stewards saw it differently. They said the horse choked down. Maybe it did, maybe […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
WA harness race driver Briana Edman is 21-years-old and has only been in the cart since November 2023, so perhaps we shouldn’t be too hard on her about her drive on the well supported Sidestrepo in race 5 at Gloucester Park last night. Harness racing is however a professional sport upon which millions of dollars […]
There are dark clouds of controversy hanging over the field selection procedures for the $45 625 Group 3 IRT Young Guns Trot Final, and quite rightly too. The Young Guns is a series, and like all series it is run with qualifying heats and a final. In this years series there were two heats run, […]
Former SA harness racing licensee Kerry Brown is a wanted man. Wanted by the Stewards that is. Last week Brown failed to remain – i.e. walked out of – a Stewards inquiry into why he was driving one of trainer Rebecca Geurds pacers in trackwork when he doesn’t have a license permitting him to do […]
Harness Racing Australia’s internal computer system HARVEY has been down since Monday, causing havoc with the compilation of fields and payment of prizemoney across the country, and particularly in NSW. HRNSW are not saying anything about the cause of the outage. It has posted three updates to the Harness Racing Australia website about repairing the […]
What you are about to read in this and the stories to follow are the transcripts of discussions between corrupt then recently resigned HRNSW Stewards Matthew Bentley (now deceased) and Paul O’Toole, who was arrested 3 weeks later and was subsequently jailed. In what became known as the Green Light affair, both stewards had been […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM09052503.mp4 The drive of Shane Young on Wonderful To Fly in the G3 WASBA Breeders Stakes at Gloucester Park on Friday night was very strange indeed. Young led on the fave from gate 1, but at the bell with two laps to go he meekly handed up the front to the second favorite Penny Black […]
Carter Dalgety wears his hair weird so no-one can see if he has a brain Weight stops trains they say, but I can stop weight. The Cooler one of my mates calls me, and perhaps he’s right, for yesterday I put the cool on Carter Dalgety well and truly. Readers will be aware that I […]
