Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness race driver Bryse McElhinney appears before the Racing Appeals Tribunal this morning to appeal a 14 day suspension incurred at Albion Park on the 4th of April under AHR Rule 156 (2) for utilizing his whip in an unapproved manner. The 14 day suspension was issued in accordance with QRIC penalty guidelines. McElhinney represents […]
McElhinney is asked if he understands that the rule allows for the whip to be used only in a flicking motion. He says he does. Then launches into a story painting himself as a hero, saying that when you’re in a tight finish with horses coming all around you and the adrenaline is flowing you […]
The Whack says he has been hard done by. Then he unleashes, claiming that the Stewards are in effect corrupt. “It just seems t0 me in the last few months or so that a lot of people are getting done for their whips, where there are other who could be getting done and nothing is […]
It’s decision time. One guess what it’s going to be. Appeal dismissed is my tip. The Chairman speaks the decision out loud. We learn that the Whack has been suspended seven times previously for whip use in breach of the rules. He’s a damn slow learner isn’t he? Based on what he has said today […]
We’ve just flicked to the Harness Racing Australia website, and guess what the top story is? A feel good story about The Whack. https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=69588 How’s that for irony? Our sport’s latest pin-up boy is a serial offender. A whip it, whip it real good sort of guy. It of course being a horse. Whack told […]
Jason Grimson went on air yesterday to pooh-pooh Gary Hall Jr’s earlier claim that Swayzee was 1000-1 to sit outside his WA superstar Mister Smartee in the Nullarbor on Anzac Day and beat him. Swayzee is better sitting in the death outside another horse, Grimson told interviewer Gareth Hall, adding in a ‘back at you […]
Emma Stewart had runners in each of the 7 heats of the Nutrien Sales Series run today at Melton. She won them all. Colts, fillies, tw0-year-old, three-year old. All Emma’s. In five of the seven races she trained the quinella. How can this happen? These are horses of different breeds purchased at a yearling sale. […]
Archie Spotted at the Creek …… With the big wet… Albion Park tries shifting their usual day meeting to Tuesday night (it’s the 1st of April but this is not a Fool’s joke). There is an interesting little gathering in the dilapidated old stand … a former bookie (who is a fixture at every meeting, […]
Less than two weeks after Tasmanian Parliament heard testimony that he was involved in horse doping, race fixing, and animal welfare breaches, Ben Yole has made application for a stay of his three year sentence for mistreatment of his racing animals. Given the wonky state of some of the evidence that sunk him, Yole just […]
A couple of months ago we told you about Zev Meredith, the junior driver with a pot problem who, when he realised the Stewards were doing drug testing at Alexandra Park, phoned in to tell them his car had broken down and he couldn’t get to the races, and then turned up at the track. […]
