Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As you can see in the story below, trot trainer/driver Jordan Topping has form for animal welfare breaches. Her partner Ryan Veivers does too. This pair are not people who care properly for horses. Now we learn from the Harness Racing Australia website that last month Jordan Topping copped 2 x 6 month disqualifications, to […]
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 […]
The $1600 payment to trainer Clinton Taylor to compensate him for the costs involved in takin his horse to Townsville only to be late scratched because of a Racing QLD handicapping error is understandable. Racing QLD trying to place the blame on Racing Australia isn’t. RA isn’t Queensland’s Principal Racing Authority, RQ is. The blame […]
John Zielke was one upon a time the premier trainer of 2YO’s in QLD, back in the days when he used to be in charge of Evan Hartley’s horses. It all seems so long ago not. Zielkie is what the Kiwi call a waka jumper, a bloke who instead of committing himself to something long […]
Sir You’re wrong. Aldebaranstilinski has been flying for years. It’s always been a mad charger and seems to have finally learnt to become a racehorse. I took the Jason Grimson comparison to be a slur against the integrity of Mr. Dawson’s horsehusbandry practices, so to speak. I don’t agree. Lance from Louth —————————————- Editor’s Note […]
We keep telling you that Mitchell Dawson is the second greatest trainer in the world behind Jason Grimson, and last night the man they call the Quiet One proved us right. We told you all about the amazing improvement of the M. Dawson trained trotter Aldebaranstilinski a couple of weeks ago. Mitchell Dawson is the […]
Stephen Massingham and Georgie Holt are the two leading trainers in Far North QLD. That is where the similarity ends. About 1 in every 4 of Holt’s runners gets pre-race swabbed. Only 1 in 20 of Stephen Massingham’s does. Why is that? It doesn’t make sense. The trainers who win the most races should have […]
Conor Crook is the Tasmanian trot trainer that we told you during the week was caught with around 1o vials of EPO, and although that is yet to be made public by the authorities, trust us it’s true. This is the Stewards report from Launceston last Sunday. Gee I wonder what the Stewards found? And […]
Keayang Santiago had raced 57 times for trainers Margaret Lee (of Keayang Zahara fame), S Vasiliou, Luke Tabone, Jodie Quinlan and Matt Newberry and won just 6 races before it was sent north to the Bailey McDonough barn at Menangle. Since that happened a month ago its has won 2 from 3, and probably should […]
It seems incredible how much the Chantal Turpin/Pete McMullen (pictured above) stable can improve hitherto slow horses that come over from New Zealand, and the 2-year-old gelding Aardie’s A Star which made its Australian debut at Albion Park today is yet another example. Aardie was anything but a star back at home, where he had […]
