Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Is Ciaron Maher the luckiest trainer in NSW? Or the most favoured? Many this week are asking the question after Maher was granted an exclusive lease from Racing NSW on the 125 box former Grand Lodge stables at Warwick Farm following its $20 million purchase by the racing regulator. This latest stroke of good fortunes […]
Sydney’s leading trot trainer Jason Grimson has a very busy long and highly unusual couple of days ahead of him. First today he makes the 11 hour drive from Menangle or 2 hour plane flight from Mascor (cost circa $500) to Mildura our near the South Australian border to take just one drive tonight, that […]
QRIC have today (Thursday) conducted mass scale unannounced visits to trainers and racing participants at Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast and issued directions to a number of people to hand over their phones. It is believed that the following participants complied with the direction, and that their phones are now in the possession of the […]
Tommy Berry must be ruing his comments in an interview with Sky after Hovland’s at Warwick Farm ago. Berry told the interviewer that he “had the opinion of being a lot more positive this morning when I (he) spoke to Tom and John, and full credit to them, they didn’t want me to be that […]
It took a little detective work and a bit of reading between the lines, but the mystery of a harness trainer’s 2 x 6 month disqualifications has been solved. Because the QRIC elected not to publish the person’s name we shall not either, even though we know who it is, and shall refer to them […]
We have written repeatedly and at length about the injustice handed down to Paul Tonkin, a good honest man who had served his community and its people faithfully for all his life, and then got publicly shamed and disgraced by the NSW harness racing authorities for an unintentional breach of the rules caused by cross […]
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 […]
