Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Blake Shinn is not an executive member of the Victoria Jockeys Association, but as he showed by issuing the media release pictured at the top of this story, he is a leader of men. Everyone knows that the jockeys should be paid for riding in jump outs, it’s simple common sense, even if Ciaron Maher […]
Victorian trainers David Vozlic and Aaron Coad – the pair whose feud on social media we wrote about yesterday – just don’t know when to stop. Here they are at it again. If Harness Racing Victoria weren’t going to go after them already for breaching the Social Media Policy and/or the rules, they almost certainly […]
Yesterday the New Zealand Government announced that it will phase out greyhound racing over a 20-month period, with racing to be banned by the end of July 2026. While this decision will obviously be bitterly disappointing and distressing for the participants and their families in the greyhound racing industry in New Zealand, the NZ government’s […]
Punters who backed Nordic Belle in the first race at Caulfield yesterday have plenty of cause for complaint about Blake Shinn’s ride in my view. The Stewards couldn’t find much wrong with the steer, but I can. Have a look and see what you think. Here it is from side on, with Shinn in the […]
If you have even in your life seen a trotter that should have been disqualified – or better put, must have been disqualified -from a win its the leader here in this race at Stawell. Driver Chris ‘the Puppet’ Alford should have his nickname changed to the Puppet Master, for after seeing this you’d have […]
Victorian gallops trainer Kane Harris has been suspended for six months by the Victorian Racing Tribunal after one of his horses threw a positive swab to dexamethasone. In was Harris’s fifth positive in 8 years, three of them for the same drug. Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid used to treat inflammation and pain. It has serious […]
Chris Svanosio suddenly became very disinterested in driving when he realised that Highpoint had no chance of winning or running a place in race 7 at Melton last night. Me thinks he might have been more interested in dropping a ratings point. If that was his aim he succeeded. At the expense of course of […]
Emma Stewart had six runners in the Breeders Crown 3YO Colts and Geldings final. Only one of them – Some American – was owned by her Dad. Some American was allowed to stroll to the front early after its stablemate the $1.70 favorite and initial leader Bay of Biscay took hold and allowed it across. […]
Anything HRV can do, Harness Racing NSW can do better. Or worse, depending on which lens you are looking at the Menangle pre-race swab (PRS) regime from. Only 1 of the favorites on the 8 race card in Sydney was PRS. That Seaton Grima trained runner was also the only 1 of the 4 odds-on […]
There is no better illustration of how the dominance of the Emma Stewart stable has negatively impacted Victorian harness racing than in the number of 2yo and 3yo pacers contesting the Breeders Crown. Since 2020 the total number of runners from those age groups in the heats had plummeted from 148 down to just 56. […]
