Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You might remember our story a couple of weeks ago about the serial SA harness blow up merchant Lou Trotta being handed a 14 month disqualification for abusing first his own driver after a race, and then later a steward at the hearing into the original matter. It was Trotta’s umpteenth conduct breach offence, and […]
Police seized drugs and “items of interest” as part of an early morning raid at a high-profile Gold Coast horse racing stable. Police sources have told the Bulletin 10 officers, including the dog squad, executed a search warrant at the property on Ken Russell Court, Bundall at about 5.30am on Sunday March 24. It’s understood […]
152 Priorities concerning horse to be driven (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 […]
The talk of the Gold Coast track is all about a pre-dawn police raid at trainer Mel Eggleston’s place at the Gold Coast at about 4am on Sunday morning. Apparently there were more than a dozen cops involved bearing warrants who went through his house like a dose of salts until 9.00 am, and took […]
In the 10 years between 2005 and 2015 SA harness trainer Lou Trotta spent 66 weeks suspended or disqualified for various conduct related offences. Since then his reord looks something like this: 5/12/16 – Abuse 3 licensees and a Steward – 12 month disqualification 29/3/2017 – Drive in a race while under the influence of […]
Robert Camilleri is a one of Victoria’s leading greyhound trainers, and one of the top 20 in the country according to the latest stats. Camilleri’s long-term partner is a former NSW greyhound steward named Deborah Coleman. In other words, he is a very experienced and skilled trainer who has a defacto that knows the greyhound […]
We am not quite sure why every racing licensee who is forced to face the QCAT or the Racing Appeals Panel doesn’t contact us for a bit of free advice first, for we are rarely wrong. This morning we tipped that George Sitek would get off his conviction of a breach of AR228(b) if he […]
There is trend emerging in NSW harness racing whereby pacers that leave the Seaton Grima stable suddenly lose two legs. Four starts back Saginaw won at Menangle in 1.52.5. It then ran down the track three starts ago in a higher class race at Menangle, but still ran a similar [personal time of 1.52.6. After […]
Hey look, David Reynolds is back in court again. He’s landed the daily double. Archie I will tell you what the cowardly narcissist bastard has done. His day of madness and misbehavior started on Saturday when he kicked his jockey out of his car on the way back from the races, leaving Scott Sheargold stranded […]
TCO2 Levels The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has identified the following horses that have recorded a TCO2 reading above 35.1 mmol/L. This information will remain online for 28 days from the publishing date. All horses notified on this list (including past notifications) are subject to new measures requiring trainers to present them to the stewards for pre-race […]
