Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The just released Albion Park Harness Racing Club Inc. annual report reveals that despite an increase of over $180 000 in revenue, the club sustained a loss of almost $700 000 in the 2023/24 financial year. The major factors in the loss were: Employment costs going up by 40% (from $1 million to $1.4 million) […]
Six semi-finals of the rich Breeders Challenge series were run at Menangle last night. Only two favorites in the six races were pre-race swabbed. They were the only runners under double figure odds swabbed. The average price of the 12 horses swabbed in the semi-finals was $72.00. And HRNSW call this a world class integrity […]
Are the Kiwi trot Stewards serious aplying the rules, or do they just make it up as they go? The push out rule is very simple and clear. Prior to the 1000m mark a driver is not allowed to push out when the nose of a horse outside them is in line with or past […]
There is no club in the world that can stuff things up like the Auckland Trotting Club can, and no Stewards who can allow them to do it so badly either. Race 6 at Auckland was the feature event of the night, the $30 000 final of the Woodlands Stud-Silk Road Northern Series. The race […]
Gloucester Park has a few problems if their CEO Michael ‘Boo’ Radley can’t remember the name of the development company headed by their former Vice-President Kevin Jeavons son Kyle that the club sold $60 million worth of prime Swan riverside land to without a public tender for $10 million paid in five yearly instalments of […]
This below is the information being circulated to members by the club about the proposed sale of club land. Read and digest it, and we will throw you a few extra questions soon. What are Members being asked to vote for? The GPHR Executive Committee has begun a formal process under the Club’s by-laws to […]
Watch driver Tiarna Ford take off for home a lap early in this race at Burnie last Friday night. Ford sees the horse in front of her in the death under the whip, gets a rush of blood and loses count of the laps. She thinks that its the final one. It’s not. There is […]
The official Stewards report seriously downplays the seriousness of the injury. It refers to the young horse breaking gait twice without mentioning why, even though it notes that Kasheeper was transported to the equine hospital for treatment, and then it goes on to say that a vets certificate is required prior to the horse being […]
Trainer Brad Abbott had a $10 bet on his horse Hy Voltage in the 8th race at Menangle on Saturday night. Or at least he thought he did, but when Abbott later checked the ticket he discovered that he had put it on the wrong number by mistake. Abbott went to try and cancel the […]
We found this old picture while going through some childhood photo albums, and it brought a question to mind. How many blokes have scored a winning try in a QLD-NSW rugby league series play as a curtain raiser to the first ever Origin game, trained multiple Derby winners, won a Chariots of Fire with a […]
