Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie Here’s a funny one for you. Friday night 20 June at the Auckland Trotting Club meeting senior and well-respected horseman James Stormont received an Official Warning under Rule 869(2), Whip & Rein Reg 2.5 for “Failing to ensure tassel was removed from whip”. Rule 869(2) states “no driver shall during any race use a […]
Racing Queensland have put out a media release promoting the Northern Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. It’s a great festival of racing that’s for certain. Been there, done that, love it, will do it again. The racing is not at issue. RQ’s sense of place is. The peak body’s press release The action gets underway at […]
The New Zealand racing rules provide that the Racing Integrity Board can order a licensee who is convicted of a rule breach to pay its (the RIB’s) costs incurred in prosecuting them. Imagine that in a democracy. Paying the police to prosecute you. It sounds like Nazi Germany. Of course the more you protest your […]
You can get into the Windsor Enclosure at Royal Ascot for fifty bucks. Peter V’Landys charges $50 to get into the public area for The Everest too. It’s a bit more expensive to go to Flemington for the Melbourne Cup. The cheapest tickets are $90.75 None of these major race day event ticket prices has […]
NSW harness racing trainers Peter Hanson and Dylan Xerri have had their licenses suspended after their horses threw positive swabs to the drug Xylometazoline after winning races in the past few few months. It is believed to be the first time that an Australian horse recorded a positive to the drug. Xylometazoline is the active […]
Jett Turnbull (pictured) is only 17 years old, but even at this early stage of his career the record setting junior driver appears to have some of his more senior rivals rattled. Mat Rue is one. At Dubbo on Friday night Rue drove three favorites or 2nd favorites in a row in races 4-6 against […]
We are in the home straight now with only a month of the season to go, and there are some battle royales going on around the State for Queensland’s prestigious premiership titles. Angela Jones and Emily Lang’s head to head tussle to become the first woman to wear the Brisbane champion jockey’s crown is set […]
Greg Bennett was once a champion trot driver, the best in NSW of his time. Then he got embroiled in the Green Light affair, and after deliberately handing over the wrong phone and then refusing to answer questions about it he was disqualified for 7 years. Since that disqualification ended in 2017 Bennett has made […]
Our story yesterday about trainer Brett Cavanough’s satellite operation in Queensland attracted some comment from readers. Here are a couple of them. As usual the content of the letters are genuine, only the names have been changed. ——————————————— Hi Archie, Reaching out in regards to your article on Brett Cavanough. A lady called Steph Alexander […]
Why would trainer Brett Cavanough enter his horse Indifference at Alpha in Queensland one day and at Coffs Harbour in NSW the next? After all it’s a 16 hour drive between the two tracks, and Cavanough trains his horses out of Scone (or so we’re told). He wouldn’t have entered Indifference in the Alpha Cup […]
