Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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, […]
A pacer from the Riverina named Malinjang has 13 starts for four different trainers over 18 months. The best it can do is run two 3rds. Its average beaten margin over the 13 starts is 67.5 metres. Malinjang gets sold to prominent owner Mick Falvo, and he sends it to his favourite trainer Alex Ashwood. […]
Poor old Nathan Jack. He’s only been back in the game for five minutes, and a horse kicks him fair in the head. It must hurt like hell, but I guess he’s probably used to it. After all, Brent Fisher and the HRV Integrity Team have been kicking Nathan in the teeth for years now. […]
On the 19th of July last year some Stewards from Harness Racing Victoria made a surprise visit to the stables of trainer Rhys Nicholson. There they found an unregistered performance enhancing injectable solution named Bio Bleeder (see story below). They charged him with possession of a product that has not been registered, labelled, prescribed or obtained […]
You would think that a driver of Inter Dominion Trot winner Greg Sugars stature would be good enough to hook a horse without it being so obvious that the whole world could see it, but you’d be wrong. Look what Sugars does here tonight in race 1 at Bendigo on the favourite. Sugars is in […]
Hot off the press this afternoon is news that Nathan Jack has won his license back. Quite peculiarly, given that he is one of the nation’s most skilled drivers, a condition has been placed on his new license that Jack has to drive in 15 trials prior to him starting driving in races again. Anyone […]
VICTORIAN horse racing’s new corruption watchdog has vehemently denied having accepted cash from a convicted drug dealer to do private detective work, saying the allegations are part of a malicious campaign to destroy his reputation and force him out of the industry. Former detective Dayle Brown, chosen last week to head Racing Victoria’s integrity services […]
Well, well, well. Look at this. Peter Lamb is the name you are looking at, the starter at Melton. Lamb is the man who got sacked in New Zealand for hooking the start of last year’s NZ Trotting Cup, the one in which his mate Mark Purdon’s horse Self Assured got a flying start from […]
