Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Clayton Tonkin had three runners at Melton on Saturday night that started deep in the red. Each one the trio were regarded as being top class. All of them lost. Petracca won the Vicbred Super Series and the Victoria Derby last season. In the Derby it ran 53.98 seconds for the last half over 2760m. […]
This picture was taken at Flemington at 1.00pm today. It’s a huge crowd isn’t it? A few bookies, two men, and a dog. Looks cold too doesn’t it? No wonder the punters all stayed at home.
Licensees are up in arms, trot fans are perplexed, and punters will be shifting their investments north to Leeton tonight after the world class debacle at Shepparton. It’s rained bugger all, hardly enough to get your coat damp, just 0.2mm since 9.00am, yet tonight’s meeting at the track has inxeplicably been called, less than an […]
Bruce Clark has written the excellent piece on the Darren Weir sentencing hearing republished below. You can find this and a range of other brilliant stories on Bruce’s website clarkofthecourse.com A Victorian Racing Tribunal supposed penalty hearing descended into some farce as another disqualification period was delivered but no absolute decision reached. Darren Weir will […]
Watch this race and ask yourself if you would have upheld a protest 2nd v 1st on the grounds of interference down the straight. YES or NO? If you said YES then you join a small but elite group of experts headed by HRV Stewards on the panel at Terang on Monday who agreed with […]
Justice John Bowman on the Victorian Racing Tribunal’s penalty decision in the Darren Weir case is to be handed down on Friday morning. Just for a lark we though we’d frame a few markets on what sentence Weir gets. ALL IN BETTING $3.00 NO PENALTY In this scenario Weir gets no penalty over and above […]
Billionaire racehorse owner and inheritor of the family fortune Andrew Munz has never been appointed to a position on the board of Racing Victoria, and doesn’t enjoy enough support among the members to get a vote up, but still somehow the bloke thinks he runs the show. Munz’s most recent demand has been for RV […]
HRV Stewards today concluded inquiries regarding the conduct of Trainer/Driver Robert Walters during Stable inspections on 5 October 2023 and 24 November 2023. Mr Walters was found guilty to two charges of misconduct under AHRR 231(2) the particulars of which were: CHARGE 1 Robert Walters, a licensed Trainer and Driver with Harness Racing Victoria did […]
The new at Sandown that was part of the six million dollar refurbishment plan to attract punters back to the desolate, windswept racecourse on the two Saturdays a year they actually race there. The messiah Gillon McLachlan’s first job is to make sure that it is open on race day. His next step is to […]
For some years now the Victorian Harness Racing Club, then led by Rob Auber, has at the urging of Auber and the small number of members who attend the club’s formal meetings been pursuing the ‘dream’ of having a dedicated room for members at the Melton race track. This year them ‘dream’ was finally achieved […]
