Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
Until just six weeks ago the pacer Miki Pins was trained by Ben Matthews, and had won just 4 races from 13 starts – at Wagga(twice) Swan Hill and the C-grade track at West Wyalong and was rated an NR67. Somewhere in mid-Novermber the horse was transferred to Jason Grimson, and suddenly, almost as if […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC07012505.mp4 We told you yesterday about how the WA Stewards had allowed Lindsay Harper to drive a horse other than the one he drives in a race at Gloucester Park last night. The horse lost, as did the one that Harpers owns and drives, but that is not the point. The point is that the […]
Priorities concerning horse to be driven 152. (1) The owner or trainer of a horse in a race shall not drive any other horse in the race except with the permission of the Chairman of Stewards. (2) A person who owns or trains more than one horse starting in a race and who desires to drive […]
It seems that Ryan Veivers is not the only licensee at his place who abused animals. His partner Jordan Topping does too. In February last year Topping was fined $5000 (with $3000 of the fine suspended) after vets reported that two horses in her care – Give Me Fifty and Over The Horizon – had […]
Chynna Marston was found guilty of the same two equivalent charges in the rules of racing that Ryan Veivers was under the harness racing rules, they being: Failing to provide sufficient nutrition to horse in her care Failing to provide veterinary treatment to horses in her care where such veterinary treatment was necessary. Marston was […]
In a decision that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, Queensland trot trainer Ryan Veivers has been suspended for just 3 months after pleading guilty t0 three charges of failing to properly care for horses he was responsible for. The convictions arose as a result of QRIC officials having conducted an unannounced inspection of […]
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed We asked a question during the week about where Aaron Bain was, having not raced a […]
We told you last month about a trainer having been stood down for inappropriately touching a young female jockey as she was being legged up aboard the horse she was riding for him at a country QLD meeting. Inappropriate is not actually the right word to describe the trainer’s outrageous actions – it was an […]
Tasmania Wayne Yole succeeds his son Benjamin as the State’s leading trainer, leading in twice as many winners as his nearest rival Tammy Langley, albeit with three times the number of runners. Rohan Hillier wins the drivers title by a street, with 89 winners from 341 drives at a strike rate of 26.1%. Tiarna Ford […]
