Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is what’s wrong with harness racing. We glorify people who should be thrown head first out of the sport. Yesterday we told you about Jack ‘Breaker’ Laugher copping his umpteenth suspension for whip rule breach offences, which are acts of abject animal cruelty under another name. Breaker’s latest 5 week suspension was deferred to […]
Decron Horse Care is a highly reputable company run by Copy That’s owner Merv Butterworth, a good and honourable man and a great supporter of harness racing. What a great shame it is that Merv’s generous sponsorship of the Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Drivers Championship was blighted by the series being won by Jack ‘Breaker’ […]
Now I have to confess that I went to primary school in the lower working class borough of Geebung, which means like other kids from the mean streets school I learned at an early age to fight and run and punt and play footy and drink and smoke and stand up to bullies and give […]
On the 15th of January, in the time honoured Telegraph Stakes at Trentham in Wellington in New Zealand, two horses named Levante and Roch ‘N’ Horse broke the world record time for 1200 metres when the pair – who were separated by just a nose – ran 1.06.19 seconds over the six furlong trip. Many […]
It is not often that you see the world’s best jockey James McDonald make a fatal error, but he did yesterday in the Newmarket. J-Mac’s tactics were to go straight to the lead and stay there, way and bully his opposition from the front and crush them into the ground just like he did in […]
Nathan Jack is the most hated man in the history of the Harness Racing Victoria Integrity Unit, bar none. Even the convicted and ten-year jailed Mokbel league meth cook and dealer Rod Weightman gets a better welcome than N. Jack, even though the latter has no criminal convictions at all, and the former has heaps. […]
In a week when Russia quite rightly became the scourge of the world, it was perhaps fitting that a sprinter named after the land of putrid Putin’s favourite aerial freestyle skier copped the worst run in transit since the Titanic and met a similar fate. Smirnova was the galloper’s name, and the smart 3YO filly […]
Once upon a time innocent trainers like Darrel Graham and our man Moods used to get tipped out for long periods of time for throwing positive swabs to cobalt salts. It was a travesty of justice, and it was only through the big man’s outspoken criticism of the stewarding practice and Daz’s determined legal resistance […]
Last year Ryan Duffy copped a 12 month DQ from the Victoria Racing Tribunal helping his mate milkshake a horse, taking the bolt when the Stewards turned up and caught them in the act, and lying through his teeth about the whole thing. He deserved the DQ too. The RV Stewards thought Duffy deserved more, […]
This protest ruling by the HRV Stewards is the greatest load of Edgar Britt you have ever seen. It is so ridiculous that I am even going to waste my time explaining it to you, unless you are legally blind. If that is the case get in touch and let me know, and I will […]
