Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s been a long time since we met Nessie, aka the Loch Ness Monster. And an even longer time since she was spotted in the Loch. Peter ‘Pete the Plodder’ Chadwick is the Loch Ness Monster of Victorian Harness Racing. Plod’s the new Chief Steward, but just like when he was the Chief in QLD, […]
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club and man that we call Winnie the Pooh, claims to be an animal welfare expert. Retirement farms for horses are not enough, and the industry needs to find other pathways following retirement, he beats his chest and proclaims. Just like the Pooh declares to anyone […]
The ‘adopted son’ of Hong Kong, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, dressed in a traditional Chinese costume, practised Tai-chi at a function with the elderly. His mate Johnny must have been out the back reading Mao’s little red book on the throne. John Messara AM wouldn’t be out the back in the shadows trying to sabotage his one […]
Well it was nice of the new HRV Chief Steward to turn up to a couple of meetings and get his picture taken, but where has he gone? It looks like Pete the Plodder (Chadwick) is up to his old tricks and spending race days in the office opening and closing doors and shuffling papers. […]
It’s little known to most racing folk, but the CEO of Racing Victoria Andrew Jones is somewhat of a jack of all trades, but seemingly a master of none. One of Jones trades – a failed one – is that he is also a screenwriter. He wrote the script for the movie The Honourable Wally […]
"Given the margin of a short-head and given the amount of interference it's the stewards view that had the interference not occurred that Jacquinot would've finished ahead of Gentleman Roy therefore the objection is upheld." pic.twitter.com/aeMyysTt0v — 7HorseRacing 🐎 (@7horseracing) February 11, 2023 I can’t see the logic of the Stewards upholding the protest in […]
Codename Marcus came into Saturday night’s Chariots of Fire qualifier The Bonanza with the sort of form that would make you want to slit your wrists if you owned him, Two starts back he’d been smashed by Leap To Fame by nearly fifty metres in the Vic Derby, and then he’d gone like a mule […]
Do you remember the gala Hunter Cup barrier draw events that the Victorian Harness Racing Club held at the Crown Casino in 2021 and 2022? The ones on which they dropped a motza? And at which they launched and then consolidated the Graeme Lang Medal for the trainer of the most Group 1 winners and […]
International globetrotting steward Pete ‘the Plodder’ Chadwick started work at Harness Racing Victoria on the weekend, with the great man sitting on the panels at both the Group 1 Southern Stars and Hunter Cups meetings on Friday and Saturday night respectively. Chadwick sat ON the panels, he didn’t CHAIR them. The reason for that is […]
The opening market in the Hunter has changed utterly in the past 24 hours. Copy That opened up at the ridiculously short quote of $2.15, but has blown out to a more realistic $3.20, with more flex to come I reckon. It’s the other Kiwi that the money has come for, Old Town Road. He’s […]
