Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
1.1 Background The intention of this policy is to outline to all industry stakeholders the circumstances where the Harness Racing Victoria (HRV) Stewards require the prior disclosure of the intended tactics to be employed in a race. 1.2 Objectives The objectives of this policy are to: Protect the integrity of the Victorian Harness Racing Industry […]
Everyone’s favorite Woodend Beach based trainer John ‘Lurch’ Dunn employs the young driver Devon van Til (pictured below), or at least his father John and wife Jenna do, or anyway that’s what the registration books say. Yeah right, whatever. According to this article above, Van Til’s 1st introduction to harness racing was when Lurch let […]
I wrote a story three months ago declaring that if Queensland greyhound trainer Johnny ‘JC’ Catton (pictured at top) could win first up with his dog Little Byrnes at the age of 4 years and 2 months old, after 172 injury enforced days away from the track, he would be a miracle maker. He wasn’t. […]
Reg Fleming, the greatest trainer there never was Re: Cummings. I think Reg Fleming is a genius. Nigel Blackiston is still battling along, and Leon Corstens could never get the mix right once he departed the kennel. Never thought it had much to do with the Cummings really at all. And I grew up next […]
This is hot off the press from Lucky Lingard’s ever excellent letsgohorseracing.com.au website. Is it true? We don’t know. But we have been hearing rumors about a split in the Godolphin camp for some time, so part 1 at least seems likely. We prefer not to write about Tony Gollan at all because we don’t […]
This is the training facility of leading US trot trainer Nancy Takter. How bloody good is it? You’d cut off your left leg to have one like it. Winners win. It’s because they spend the money on places like this to make sure they do. Wow. This joint of Nancy’s is sensational.
So just look at this one. It’s Emma Stewart’s strike rate this year across all tracks on the left, and at Bendigo where she scored a double last night on the right. Have you ever seen winning percentages by a large stable like this in your life? What’s even more frightening is that the Stewart […]
The Chris Munce race day treatment inquiry has been left in an absolute mess. It is a train wreck, to put it politely. Munce had been charged and pleaded guilty to a race day treating offence. He was given a 3 month suspension, and appealed it. https://www.racing.com/news/2021-03-24/news-munce-found-guilty-of-raceday-administration#:~:text=The%20Queensland%20Racing%20Integrity%20Commission,He%20was%20also%20fined%20%245000. Then the Stewards ‘vacated’ the penalty, and convened a […]
Munce leaves Sydney’s Silverwater jail in 2008 accompanied by Junior, a top bloke from Nudgee named Peter Van REDACTED, who played front row for Norths just 2 years after switching over from soccer at SP bookie Bobby Bax’s urgings. He was a great footy coach Bob, and a superb judge. My Uncle Bert used to […]
HONG KONG: An Indian-origin businessman has emerged at the centre of a betting scandal in Hong Kong following charges that a well-known Australian jockey gave him racing tips and used him as a conduit for placing bets in violation of the law. Testifying as a witness with immunity from prosecution, Dinesh Kumar Daswani, a Hong […]
