Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nathan Rothwell is a young lad whose parents owned harness racing horses, but weren’t involved hands on in the game as trainers. He wanted to be, so he enrolled in courses at the Gippsland Training Centre and undertook both theoretical and practical studies designed to furnish him with the skills to achieve his dream to […]
Hot on the heels of the successful appeals against their criminal convictions by harness trainer/drivers Nathan Jack and Mark Pitt, another less high profile Victorian race fixing prosecution has last week collapsed. Victoria Police’s sporting integrity intelligence unit had in 2019 charged trainer/driver Robert Walters with two offences relating to race-fixing in Shepparton on 17 […]
Here is an ‘interview’ conducted with new Racing Victoria Integrity chief Brent Fisher. Fisher was formerly with Harness Racing Victoria, although little mention is made of that. He is also being personally sued for a fortune by the criminally persecuted and recently vindicated harness racing identity Nathan Jack, who since his return has won 2 […]
I write often about harness racing drivers ‘hocking’ – kicking their horses to make them run faster – for I consider it a cruel and barbaric practice, and one that must be stamped out by stomping down hard on drivers who do it. Would you run out onto the oval and kick your kid in […]
What has happened on the turn entering the home straight in the Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prix is nothing short of disgraceful. Chris Angove and his family had spent more than three decades getting their trotter Sundon’s Courage to this race. They’d bred him themselves, and they had bred his mother and his grandmother […]
We wrote last week about the huge disparity in sentencing the NZ Racing Integrity Board has been displaying in regard to harness race drivers who deliberately cut the corners or go inside the pegs of the sprint lane in order to gain an unfair advantage in a race. As our example we used the case […]
Jamie Evans is one of the many Victorian racing participants who have been abused by pedophiles like trainers Geoff Murphy (dead) and Gerald Ryan (still licensed, incredibly). Most of these victims lives are train wrecks, the ones that are still alive anyway. Those who appear to still have it together have, like me when younger, […]
Do you reckon this race was a fix? It’s the 2nd at the Valley, and Ben Melham rides the winner. I don’t. But a couple of well connected readers say that it was a welcome back Benny benefit, a charity event put on by a few jockeys to show their colleague that they think he […]
The tale of David Moran’s suspension is an interesting one, and quite salacious too, but setting that aside it raises some very serious questions about the integrity of Harness Racing Victoria, and the Principal Racing Authority’s commitment to honesty, fairness, justice and the truth. For the purposes of this discussion, we wish to concentrate purely […]
A Kiwi pacer named RECKON IM SMART made it’s Australian debut in race 1 at Bendigo on Tuesday afternoon in a very weak NR 0-51 event, which for those unfamiliar with harness racing rating systems is the equivalent of a Class 1 at the gallops or a Grade 7 at the dogs. In other words, […]
