Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bjorn Baker’s amazing run of success in 2025 continued last night at Canterbury when he notched up a treble from just five starters on the card. The hat-trick took Baker’s tally of wins since New Years day to an incredible 44 wins and 44 placings from just 144 runners, at strike rates of 31.2% the […]
Hi Jack There has been a great deal of information exchanged between myself and the Racing NSW Licensing Committee over the last few days. I believe we are now on a path towards approval and I expect we will have a determination to that effect on Monday morning. In the meantime, Racing NSW have provided […]
The rumor mill is running rife that a leading Toowoomba trainer has had two horses throw positive swabs to Meloxicam. We won’t name them at present until we can confirm, but no-one will be surprised if and when we do. You will just shake your head and say surely they couldn’t be that silly could […]
Brendan James is a Tamworth based trainer whose horse threw a positive swab to Phenylbutazone, often referred to as “bute”, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory painkilling drug for the short-term treatment of pain and fever in horses. Pacers and trotters are not allowed to race with bute in their system, because it masks pain from injuries […]
The QLD Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) makes some very strange decisions from time to time. In fact they make them all the time. The recent case of Ronald Ryan is yet another example. Ryan got sprung administering boost paste to a horse named FIVE BULLS by the QRIC flying squad when they drove up the […]
Remember our story The Sussest Race in the World, in which we told you a couple of weeks ago about the rort the Reece Moore stable pulled to get their odds-on favorite beaten by one of the stablemates in a race in which Moore had four of the six runners? The odds on fave that […]
The big harness racing news out of New Zealand is that multiple premiership winning trainer Mark Purdon is launching a North Island stable. Purdon, who in recent times has been in a training partnership with his son Nathan despite living in the North Island, will base his new operation out of Steven Reid’s former barns […]
Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch has been granted a stay of operation of his 12 month suspension for a positive swab. Hatch was actually suspended for 9 months after being found guilty of a presentation charge by Stewards, but the conviction enlivened a previous 9 month suspended sentence that he received for a previous positive swab, […]
Danny Russell and Sarah Danckert The Age. February 7, 2025 Trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon have denied owing more than half a million dollars to a collapsed company at the centre of their Melbourne Cup prizemoney dispute. The trainers say they are, in fact, owed $26,000 in outstanding fees by Esprit Racing, the company they worked […]
One of Tasmania’s largest harness racing operations has been charged with breaching its duty of care following a 2023 car crash, in which several people were seriously injured. Five young people, who worked for Ben Yole Racing Pty Ltd, were driving back to Mr Yole’s stables in Sidmouth in January 2023 when their Ford Ranger, […]
