Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See that land in the yellow box? Harness Racing Victoria owns it. The Melton Shire Council sold it to them for $3 million back in the early 2000’s, when Melton was still just a small semi-rural area and steadily developing low cost housing satellite suburb with 50 000 – 60 000 residents. At the time […]
All this hue and cry and international outrage about the compulsory new CT scan testing required prior to a horse being accepted into the Melbourne Cup, and Racing Victoria did not even have a back up plan should the scanner break down. That is just incomprehensible and inexcusable, and negligence of the highest order. A […]
Most race tracks become slower when it rains heavily. Not the Geelong Paceway. It speeds up. I have no idea how, but numbers don’t lie. Due to persistent rain the mobile barrier had to be tested from all starting points prior to the first race, and Stewards ordered that mudguards be fitted to all carts […]
A horse named Rushford was backed from $7 into $4.80 in the 5th race at Yarra Valley on Saturday afternoon. Another runner in the race Southern Native was backed from $9.50 into $6.50. The favourite is Valley of Hearts, which has been steady in the market at $3.60 Liam Riordan is riding a $31 outsider […]
Rejuvenate is the best named horse in the world. Her story is a weird one. She is a ten year old mare by Emma Stewart’s first great pacer Safari, who won Country Cups and Group races for Africa, and finished 4th to Blacks A Fake in the 2008 Inter Dominion. Her mother is by Our […]
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?
