Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One time Group 1 winning jockey Gavin Eades has been warned off for 6 months by Racing Victoria Stewards, effective immediately. It is a warning off because RV can’t disqualify him as he doesn’t hold a license. Six months isn’t really long enough in my view. Life would have been better. It doesn’t really matter […]
See this video someone sent me? They say it’s trainer Darleen Duryea, in the fall back in 2021 that almost killed her. I don’t if you noticed it at full speed cos I didn’t first time around, but as her horse goes down there a huge clod dirt come up, next to left side of […]
“I can’t touch horses or saddle horses but I can manage some things for the stable, help with programming campaigns for horses and manage communication with owners” “There are some things I did wrong in the past and if I could go back in time and change some stuff I would. “I’ve always wanted to […]
QLD jockey Amy Graham was charged by Stewards with one count of damaging the image of racing by snorting coke while jockey Casey Waddell who she thought was a mate was filming it on her phone, and another count of lying to Zim (QRIC Steward Paul Zimmerman) about who else was there on the toot […]
Harness Racing NSW is yet to publicly release its 2024/25 Annual Report, but our network of contacts stretch far, including onto the floor of the NSW Lower House of Parliament, from where one of the State’s democratically elected MP’s of our acquaintance sent us a copy. We will have a lot more to say about […]
Do you remember the story we told you about a month ago about how the Stewards in the Hanging State convicted NSW trot trainer Jared Hetherington and disqualified him for 2 years for a cobalt positive that wasn’t, because the confirmatory lab test on his horse’s sample came back under the threshold Well today J. […]
Gavin “Group 1 Gav” Eades – featured in the video above after winning the 1994 Doncaster Handicap, before he descended into drug and alcohol fueled madness – will appear before the Racing Victoria Stewards on Wednesday to face charges over his digraceful behavior at a recent race meeting at Caulfield. Eades – who has lost […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/PAC24112509.mp4 I am the perfect person to judge this, because I backed both of them. They were very similar drives. G. Hall Jr’s drive on Skyklou at Pinjarra was very, very good. But James Herbertson’s drive on Steel The Moment in R2 at Horsham was better. Take a look yourself above at Hall (blue and […]
CRAHP President Cranitch (pictured): A Red Hot Racing Fan With a Cool Solution to the Heat Stress Conundrum Deputy QRIC Commissioner Kim Kelly has been courting controversy in QLD country racing circles recently over the well-intended application of his new Caring For Animals in Extreme Heat Policy that was developed using the classic consultation method […]
Harness Racing in Victoria is in an awful mess. Years of poor governance and management, featuring prizemoney raised to levels during the COVID-19 betting boom that could never be sustainable, a bloated bureaucracy at all levels, and non-racing expenses ballooning out of control, has left the sport all but destitute and forced to surrender the […]
