Mick is Confirmed as a Member of the RAP – Pull the Whip!
Pull the whip Mick!
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
The jungle drums are beating that Mick Dittman has been, or is about to be, appointed as a member of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), to replace Skye Bogenhuber, who is reportedly making a comeback to race riding. If the rumor is true – which we believe it to be – it creates quite […]
Animal Welfare in Tasmania Gets Punched in the Face
Want to see the most blatant and absolutely disgraceful breach of the harness racing whip rule in the past decade? Then watch this. The driver is Corey Johnson, the South Australian whose family has been the target of clandestine fire bombings and graffiti attacks in recent months. If you didn’t know better, and realise that […]
On the Whip Rule
Hey mate, Just on your whip rule story I don’t know why jockeys don’t protest if they are beaten by another jockey breaking the rule to beat them. John from Jericho Editor’s Note Me either.
What Do Whip Rules Worth if They Are Not Enforced?
AR 132(7) Subject to the other requirements in this rule: (a) prior to the 100 metre mark in a race, official trial or jump-out: (i) the whip must not be used in consecutive strides. Apprentice Bella Youngberry rode the winner of race 1 at Ipswich on the weekend, the horse in the royal blue in […]
Who is Gunna Drive the One’s Luke and Cam Hart Don’t in the Big One? – Archie Scopes the Field and Comes Up With a Few Choices – And Outsiders the Selections
So both Luke McCarthy and Jason Grimson are faced with dilemmas in the Miracle Mile. If Luke drives Kingman who does he put on Don Hugo, and vice versa? And if Cam Hart drives Swayzee, who drives Captains Mistress, and is he doesn’t then who drives the Swayzee? Here are the best options in my […]
How Dare They? – 48 Hours From the Race of the Century, and This Happens – You Hypocrites – How Could You You Do This to Us? – It Just Ain’t Fair
So here we are two days out from the greatest trot race than anyone 40 will ever see. The Hunter Cup. Leap To Fame v Kingman v Swayzee v Republican Party. Harness racing doesn’t get any better than this. There is a huge buzz. People who haven’t watched or bet on the trots for years […]
Lawyer Wayne Pasterfield is a Genius – And the Whip Rules are a Joke
There are two main takeaways from the James McDonald whip appeal decision earlier this week. One is that his lawyer Wayne Pasterfield (pictured above) is a genius. How he was able to convince the Appeals Panel to reduce J-Mac’s suspension to six days – effectively a 2 meeting suspension given that Sydney’s top jockey tends […]
Well I Was Wrong and Keith Was Right – The Hunter Cup Draw Does Matter
I told Keith From Queensland that the draw wouldn’t matter in the Hunter Cup, and I wrote about it yesterday too. Keith said I was am idiot. He was right of course. The draw has thrown the great race wide open. Republican Party in 1. Swayzee in 2. Leap To Fame out wide in 6. […]
One Man’s Whip Breach is Another Man’s Fine
The driver of the winner of race 1 at Bathurst last night escaped sanction for what looked to be repeated breaches of the whip rule. In race 2 the driver of the winner was fined $200. They both looked pretty similar uses of the whip to me. So how come only one of the drivers […]