Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Lui Trotta (pictured above) has won his appeal against a 14 month disqualification imposed on him for both publicly abusing his young driver Bernadette Page, and telling the starter who had conveyed to him a direction to attend the Stewards room that the Stewards “could go and get fucked”. Well he has sort of won […]
Yesterday a feel good story about former QLD heavyweight apprentice jockey Nick Keal’s transition to the training ranks featured on the Racing QLD website. I bet the writer of the piece wished it hadn’t now. Within mere hours after the story was published, Keal was locked up in a watchhouse cell, where he spent an […]
A mate of mine owns this galloper that early in its career was a very promising 2yo who won 3 of his first 4 starts and ran 6th in a Group 3 in the other, before rounding off his first prep with a deseperately unlucky 6th in a Group 1 after the last minute stand-in […]
On Friday 15 March 2024 Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW) Stewards commenced an Inquiry into the late scratching of the horses WHODAT BOODAT, BUTTER CUP, MY ULTIMATE LEVI and MOOPS from the Broken Hill Harness Race Meeting on that date. The inquiry was adjourned to allow Stewards to obtain further information in relation to the scratchings […]
Do you remember a story we wrote a couple of months ago in which we predicted days before it happened that SA trot trainer Ryan Hyrhorec’s runner in the Broken Hill Cup would be scratched due to a claimed float breakdown? What Price Ryan Hryhorec Scratches My Ultimate Levi From Friday Night’s Broken Hill Cup? […]
Jack Trainor has seen the writing on the wall and done an Emma Stewart overnight. All of his stable horses – including last start Group 1 winner Aardies Express – have been transferred to Jason Grimson in the past 24 hour, with the transfers approved by Harness Racing NSW. That’s what you call jumping before […]
On the 5th of December last year trot trainer Emma Stewart was disqualified for 6 months after Stewards caught her race-day treating two horses by drenching them with something that she says was saline, but the Stewards say – quite correctly in my view – contained a perfomance enhancing substance. Stewart appealed the decision and […]
The mail is that Jack Trainor’s soon to be announced second positive swab involves another NZ import from the Souh Island, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, for plenty of the trainers there are dodgy and so are some of the vets. Apparently it took the world’s number 1 racing analytic facility the Hong Kong Racing Laboratory […]
As a New Zealand citizen myself – the only Geebung born, bred and raised Kiwi that I know – I fully understand the reluctance of the average All Blacks fan wearer to reach into their pocket and pull out a quid. Money is hard to come by in Aeroatoa so spending it hurts But when […]
Aaron Bain Racing’s rapid rise in South Australian thoroughbred racing is set to go to another level with the move to the former Lindsay Park property in Angaston. The historic horse haven in the Barossa Valley, made famous by Colin Hayes as Lindsay Park and then Kildalton Park with the McEvoy’s will be known as […]
