Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I never cease to be astounded about the massive contradiction between the devout faith in racing integrity espoused by the people who run the three codes in this State, and the records of people employed or licensed in Queensland under their rigorous regulatory watch. Here are just a few off the top of my head. […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
The chief executive of a Brisbane racing club has kept his job after being sentenced over the sexual assault of a young woman at an “after-party” at Friday’s Riverside. A racing club boss who admitted to unzipping a young woman’s top in front of a chief executive at a work Christmas party, nearly exposing her, […]
Stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele has this morning been sentenced in the District Court for the admitted crime of sexual assault. Steele was fined just $1000 and ordered to pay his victim $5000 by way of reparation. No conviction was recorded. What a joke. You’d love to have his lawyers if you ever […]
Watch driver Tiarna Ford’s use of the cane on the winner Hurricane Rock from the 400m mark on in the 6th race at Launceston on Sunday. Hurricane Rock’s the horse in the green and gold coming around the outside. Ford doesn’t just breach the whip rule, she smashes it into little pieces as she smashes […]
The South Australian training master of the long priced plunge ‘Super Mario’ Borg did it again at Globe Derby yesterday when his horse Levi Jimmy landed the cash in the 8th race after being backed from $23.00 into $5.50. Levi Jimmy hadn’t won a race in his previous 25 starts and was coming off recent […]
There was a curious one coming out of the Goulburn harness meeting on Monday, All of the drivers at the meeting were put on the bag and alcohol tested. Selected drivers were subjected to drug testing, Young reinsperson Jack Brown – who had been at a mates bucks party on Saturday night and reportedly had […]
This morning we emailed Harness Racing NSW CEO Peter Buckman with questions regarding the cobalt test results published on the HRA website, and he was quick to reply. We thank him for that. The CEO advises that all urine samples collected by HRNSW are screened to for cobalt. With respect to why only 453 of […]
Harness Racing NSW yesterday published the results of all urine testing for the presence of cobalt conducted since the 31st of May 2022. While it is admirable of HRNSW to share this information publicly, and the results make for interesting reading, they raise more questions about the swabbing and sample testing regime being employed in […]
What you see marked in red on the map is a 1016 square meter parcel of vacant land advertised for sale in Wickham Street, East Perth for a price of $2.8 million. That price represents an indicative land value of $2775 per square meter for the area. The oval to the far right of the […]
