Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Peter “Noddy” McMullen’s drive on Arrive in last weekend’s QLD Oaks defies logic and sense. Take a look at it before we go on further so you can see what I am about to say. What the hell was McMullen trying to achieve by taking off at the 800m at the speed he did? Was […]
John Lingard from letsgohorseracing.com.au has a few alternative ideas for the relocation of the trots. They are all good ideas, but are a snowflake’s chance in hell of ever happening. The last one brought back memories. ———————————————– Albion Park is owned by the Government so harness bosses have little bargaining power. It would be interesting […]
A fortnight ago we tipped you that barrister Tim Hale would become Chairman of the Australian Turf Clun and Caroline Searcy would be his deputy. We got the quinella. Hale and Searcy are now running the show. The ant-Rosehill sale brigade has won. So have Gai and Robbie Waterhouse. Robbie only had to wait 40 […]
Story by Matt Nicholls. Blind Freddy could see that it was a false start and should have been called a no-race. But it took the stewards about an hour to draw the same conclusion following this year’s failed Hughenden Cup in what turned out to be farcical scenes. Firstly, let’s go back to the beginning. […]
In this video below jailed US vet and supplier of illicit performance enhancing drugs to cheats Seth Fishman tells a trainer how to blood dope their horses with BB3, a synthetic blood builder that doesn’t swab. Fishman tell the trainer that BB3 is about artificially boosting the number of red blood cells to increase its […]
HRNZ CEO Brad “Superman” Steele can’t even photobomb a camera shot right. That’s him in his ubiquitous sky blue sports jacket obscured in the picture of the Derby presentation above. You have to ask why Harness Racing New Zealand CEO Brad Steele has spend last two weeks on a work paid holiday at ID25, when […]
Outgoing RQ CEO Jason Scott standing next to Kevin Seymour at the ID25 presentation The hot mail around town is that departing Racing QLD CEO Jason Scott is leaving to take up the role of CEO at the corporate bookmaker PonyBet, a trading name for Booki.com.au which was formerly known as TopBetta. Scott, who at […]
We have received some interesting information from multiple sources since we published our story about southern bookmakers clamoring to field at the Albion Park trots during the Winter Carnival meets. One of the bookmakers we mentioned in the story is Mark Opie, the owner of the corporate bookmaker Okebet. It has come to our attention […]
You may notice the name C. McGuigan in the ownership of many of the N40 horses trained by Michael Brennan. Catherine McGuigan is Brennan’s wife and mother of his kids. She is also a struck-off drug-using equine vet. Strange sort of person to have living at a registered training address and owning horses isn’t it? […]
This is an excerpt from the QLD Harness Racing Board Annual Report 2013. There are always lessons to be learned from history, particularly for those who weren’t there. With commissions paid from the TAB as a consequence of wagering turnover being harness racing’s primary source of income, it is essential that everyone associated with the […]
