Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Premier Mares Championship run at Addington is a Group 2 race featuring most of the best mares in the country, including twice Filly and Mare of the Year Belle of Montana, the almost certain winner of last year’s postponed 3-year-old filly of the year Bettor Twist, the 2021 4YO Diamond Jewels winner Need You […]
The Queensland Country Racing Awards is supposed to be the showcase of country racing in the State, and in previous years has been, but the privatisation of the formerly volunteer run On The Bit Racing into the hands of an elite few has driven a huge wedge in the sport and turned the once hugely […]
As most racing people will know, Peter V’Landys original idea for the Everest wasn’t original at all. Everything is borrowed, and PVL borrowed the concept from the Pegasus World Cup, the then $12 million slot race run by the private US race track operator the Stronach Group, who in response to the usurping of its […]
Whip use in horse racing simply does not belong in 2022 Helena Gartner, Swedish Racing Regulations Committee Sweden has long been known as a progressive nation in its social policies, and in the past decade in particular this extended out to the its attitude to animal welfare issues and the use of the whip in […]
There are two big drugs in racing cases going on in the USA this week. One is the one that we have been focusing on – the one that we call the FBI case – involving mass produced illegal and misbranded drugs, bent chemists, crooked vets, and cheating trainers. The other is the case brought […]
It was nearly two years ago when former harness horse trainer Ross Cohen was among 27 trainers, veterinarians and others snared in the largest horse doping prosecution in U.S. history. In a New York courtroom on Wednesday, Jan. 26, Cohen surfaced on the stand as a key government witness against Dr. Seth Fishman – the […]
See the horse in the 1-1? The one in the blue? It’s Scaramucci, the 2nd favourite. Do you thinks it’s driver Greg Rue is trying? I don’t. Unless he is frozen in the middle of a heatwave, Rue is definitely not doing his best to win the race, and it looks very much to me […]
There is no need to go any further into Andrew O’Keefe’s crimes than one word. Ice. It was a fun drug in the 90’s when it was made from ephedrine. Almost everyone I knew snorted it or dropped it in their drink at least one or twice, and it did no-one any harm. Then the […]
Stewards today concluded an adjourned inquiry into the running and handling of Its Super Easy ( Angus Garrard) from Albion Park Race 7 – 11/01/2022. After an extensive review of the betting, which showed no abnormal betting and reviewing the horses previous racing characteristics, confirming the horse hangs in his races. Today after taking further […]
If the Harness Racing NSW CEO is going to put his nephew on the payroll to write feel good stories in response to ours that raise questions about a trainer’s extraordinary success in putting never before seen speed into the legs of aged and battle weary pacers, he should at least hire him a research […]
