The Huge Crowd at Flemington
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.
The Great Shepparton Debacle
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 […]
Clark of the Course on the Darren Weir Sentencing Hearing
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 […]
Surely They Can’t Be Serious
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 […]
Weir Decision on Friday Morning – What Are the Odds?
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 […]
Andrew Munz Spits the Dummy Over Racing Victoria Chairman’s Appointment – What a Surprise
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 […]
Well, Well – Look Whats Popped Up Now
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 […]
Gil’s First Job – Open the Bloody Bar
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 […]
The Great VHRC Members Room Deception
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 […]
Do You Reckon the Victorian Racing Minister Knows Who’s In the Crowd?
I very much doubt it. If you know what I am talking about, then I am sure you would too. Good blokes one and all in my opinion. But I am not sure the opposition leader would agree The $1.3mil Club Lounge is open at Melton. A great partnership between Harness Racing Victoria & our […]