Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last night’s heats of the 3yo Vicbred Super Series at Kilmore shone a spotlight on everything that is wrong with Victorian harness racing. Here are the two major areas of concern. Unaffordability of the Series There were eight heats run, four for the males and four for the females. They carried total prizemoney of $10 […]
I’m a massive fan of jumps racing and always have been, but when you have seven horses die during the relatively short jumps racing season and three perish on the showpiece final day, plus a jockey in intensive care wife life shattering head injuries, it’s becoming hard to the point of impossible to mount an […]
The members at Caulfield are up in arms about the relocation of the mounting yard, and are calling for a spill of the board over the issue. How ridiculous. Who other than the ego stroking owners keen to be filmed or photographed with their expensive thoroughbred buys, or the track touts that claim to be […]
By Danny Russell August 18, 2024 — 9.56am Harness Racing Victoria has been accused of a “monumental failure of governance” that led to the sport’s governing body losing control of its $100 million land asset at Melton. Angry stakeholders claim HRV has borrowed so much money to keep the sport afloat over the past five […]
Eagle-eyed race watcher Coulthard from Coolum Beach has brought another T. Bailey stuff up to our attention, this one from race 5 at Sandown on Wednesday last week. Now I always thought that Smart Missile was a retired Group 2 winning sprinter who now stands at stud at Twin Hills, but according to the Saint […]
Sam Kilkenny is a the bloke who along with his then business partner set up the highly successful racehorse syndicator First Light Racing. Kilkenny, an accountant by trade who was a director of the firm Willis Partners, until recently used to be front, back and center promoting First Light, and was regularly seen at the […]
French jockey Mickaelle Michel (3rd in the grey and purple silks) was a wee bit upset about being chopped out by rider Jack Hill (teal stripes, white cap) when he came around and crossed her in a race at Hamilton late in May. At the conclusion of the race and continuing into the mounting yard […]
Outside of the State drivers premiership, in which the energizer bunny James Herbertson leads by 36 wins and has at his mercy, the race for the rest of the Victorian titles is as close as its been in recent memory. Mark Pitt and Greg Sugars are tied at the top of the metropolitan drivers ladder […]
If you think the massive reduction to prizemoney for the Breeders Crown series announced yesterday is the only crack on the chin that Victorian harness racing participants are going to cop this year, then I’d suggest you think again, for the pain has only just begun. There is no alternative, for as we’ve been trying […]
BY Katie Bice and Melissa Cunningham A young mum who was left a paraplegic when she was crushed by a large tree branch at Flemington Racecourse has settled a multimillion-dollar claim against the Victoria Racing Club. The case was settled on the eve of a trial at the Supreme Court after days of legal argument, with the […]
