Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you remember that Kiwi clown called Mark Jones? It’s okay if you don’t, because he’s not very memorable. Jones is the South Island trainer who threatened to sue us a year or back after we wrote a story featuring him that the poor precious dear didn’t like. He even went so far as to […]
A readers thoughts on Racing NSW’s plan to set up a Newmarket style training centre Australian trainers don’t know how to train on a genuine Newmarket style facility. Our equivalent is the stables precincts that are adjacent to racecourses. And what starts as trainers properties are often then sold out of the industry….. Hence Racing […]
Riverina based trot trainer Phillip Martin has been disqualified for 9 years after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the powerful anaesthetic 3-hydroxybupivacaine after a recent win at Albury. Mr Martin is obviously a slow learner. It was his sixth positive swab. If brains were dollars some people would be bankrupt. Phillip Martin would […]
It was interesting to hear the caller at Redcliffe last night comment how unusual it is to see a 10-year-old mare like Lara Bay still racing at her age, when most of her generation of the fillies have long retired to the breeding barn. Why would you retire a healthy mare like Lara Bay, who […]
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 […]
Until just six weeks ago the pacer Miki Pins was trained by Ben Matthews, and had won just 4 races from 13 starts – at Wagga(twice) Swan Hill and the C-grade track at West Wyalong and was rated an NR67. Somewhere in mid-Novermber the horse was transferred to Jason Grimson, and suddenly, almost as if […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC07012505.mp4 We told you yesterday about how the WA Stewards had allowed Lindsay Harper to drive a horse other than the one he drives in a race at Gloucester Park last night. The horse lost, as did the one that Harpers owns and drives, but that is not the point. The point is that the […]
Priorities concerning horse to be driven 152. (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 […]
It seems that Ryan Veivers is not the only licensee at his place who abused animals. His partner Jordan Topping does too. In February last year Topping was fined $5000 (with $3000 of the fine suspended) after vets reported that two horses in her care – Give Me Fifty and Over The Horizon – had […]
Chynna Marston was found guilty of the same two equivalent charges in the rules of racing that Ryan Veivers was under the harness racing rules, they being: Failing to provide sufficient nutrition to horse in her care Failing to provide veterinary treatment to horses in her care where such veterinary treatment was necessary. Marston was […]
