Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Weir would have to be DQed or warned off wouldn’t he? Who hasn’t been previously for using a jigger? Wallers description of Weir as “addicted to winning” is quite telling but not in the acceptable sense that Waller meant. Everyone enjoys a win, but win too frequently and celebrate too much and the dopamine reward […]
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk” – Henry David Thoreau This is the full decision of the Victorian Racing Appeals Tribunal in the matter of the Emma Stewart stay. As we told you, the HRV integrity team have stuffed up. Emma might somehow get away with […]
I wonder what’s happened at Harness Racing Victoria that precipitated the giant backflip that has seen the integrity department reject the transfer of horses from Emma Stewart to her partner Clayton Tonkin, almost two weeks after the transfers happened and were approved? It certainly is a huge turnaround from when we first raised the issue […]
Swayzee’s trainer Jason Grimson has announced that his horse will miss the Hunter Cup and the Miracle Mile, and be put away for a long, long spell. The cynics among us wonder if it will be forever. None of Grimson’s reborn slow pacers turned Group 1 winners ever seem to come up for 2nd or […]
Jason Grimson has built his public name as a trainer on taking used horses and turning them into stars. His reputation in harness racing circles is built on something else again. Seaton Grima is the new Grimson. Grima is getting previously ordinary horses from their former trainers and making them run as fast as Leap […]
There is serious mail sweeping the race tracks that the dream training partnership between Ciaron Maher and David Eustace may soon be coming to an end. It’s only a rumour at this stage, but all is said to be not well inside the camp, and that an announcement may be made before Christmas about the […]
Little known country NSW trainer Darren Egan has been disqualified for 2 years after pleading guilty to an array of sexual harassment offences perpetrated against 5 unnamed racing participants, presumably females. Egan, who has a 7% strike rate and hasn’t had a runner since July, was convicted of 5 racing rule charges related to his […]
Archie, you’ve raised basically the same questions I have about “poor Emma’s injustice”. Credit to her for pleading guilty, no doubt this got a discount of the two 6-month penalties being served cumulatively. But, after pleading guilty and copping a discount, she appeals the severity? As for the drips, I would have thought saline drips […]
With only a few weeks left to run Emma Stewart is a country mile in front on the Victorian State and Metro Premiership ladders, and a certainty to win both titles. But after her 6 month disqualification this week for race day treating 2 0f her runners bef0re a Group race, will she hold them? […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole is making hay while the sun still shines until Ray Murrihy’s full report into his nefarious activities is publicly released, which surely can’t be too far away. Chainsaw won 5 of the 8 races on the card at Hobart last night, which wasn’t all too hard given that he trained most of […]
