Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Harness Racing Victoria Stewards – led by former NSW Chief Grant Adams -have a problem with Jack Laugher’s drive on the $1.35 favourite Ozzie Playboy at Mildura a fortnight ago. Can anyone blame them? Not for that, but we all can for what happened after the race. Here’s how things rolled. Laugher was slow […]
Charlton. 27 September 2021. Jayden Brewin is driving the 2 horse. Brewin is known punter who is currently up on charges for betting in races that he drove in. He has also just been suspended for stealing money out of his colleagues wallets in the drivers room while they were out driving in races. Just […]
This supplementary report appeared at the start of Friday night’s Stewards Report from Mildura. We told you about the thieving six weeks ago, well before it became public. Jayden Brewin has some serious issues to deal with if he wants to continue with a career in harness racing. The first is sorting himself out, whatever […]
The whispers out of Victoria are that a formerly widely liked, respected and defended trot driver may be in more trouble than Flash Gordon, and it has nothing to do with giving up easy leads, hooking horses or having bets. People don’t realise the dreadfully powerful pull of the punt that compels pulsies (compulsive gamblers) […]
Having a camera truck blocking the vision of the race was not the greatest start to Moonee Valley’s biggest day of the year. Give yourselves an uppercut racing.com. Not all of us started the day so badly though. A glass of $19 Semillion anyone?
What the hell is Racing Victoria doing by allowing this Gold Trip – Cox Plate fiasco to unfold the way it has? Is the high class French horse sound or is it not sound? Surely with less than 36 hours to go until post time someone must know. This whole thing has turned into a […]
In recent months there has been a rash of poorly performing favourites in harness races in Victoria. I don’t mean favourites just being beaten, I am referring to short priced runners that are putting in runs so far below their usual standard of form that it jumps out off the page at you, and makes […]
Well it probably wasn’t, but I am writing this story so I am allowed to call Cole Diesel’s win in 1989 the greatest if I want to, and bully for the rest of them. How many Caulfield Cup winners do you know that step up from over the mile in the Toorak the week before, […]
Lightning Jash’s driver Alex Ashwood was just having a bit of a snooze there. He’s awake now! Bendigo race caller, telling us what we all see, for the benefit of the radio listeners The Alby Ashwood trained and driven Lightning Jash was was backed for a stack in the 5th at the Bendigo trots last […]
Jockey John Allen stood himself down from riding at Caulfield yesterday and went in to immediate self-isolation awaiting the result of a COVID test he took after becoming aware that he had without knowing visited a Tier 2 site in recent days. It is not Allen’s fault. Tier 2 sites are things like schools and […]
