Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Dolly Disco was drawn barrier 7 in the last at Roma on Saturday. Starter Ms. J. Harvey must have left her reading glasses at home. She directed the barrier attendant to place it in gate 1. Dolly ran 3rd, but because the margin to 4th was eleven lengths she kept her finishing position. Ms. J. […]
The former bookmaker Lindsay Gallagher owned pacer The Post Office was sensationally backed in the last few minutes of betting to win the first race at Marburg yesterday, firming from $51.00 late into $11.00 at the jump. The Post Office delivered by landing the plunge, but only after two extraordinary strokes of uncommonly good fortune […]
This is the Stewards report for The Hayden at Albion Park on Saturday night. That was the race we showed you where Peter McMullen broke the rules to try to block Grant Dixon’s horse Call To Order from coming up the sprint lane. Penalties in feature events over the Winter Carnival are supposed to attract […]
THE RULES 167. (1) From the time the sprint lane becomes available for racing purposes, the leading horse closest to the inside running line and any horse in advance of and outside that horse or having passed that horse on its outside shall not enter any part of the sprint lane. (2) In the event of the […]
What you see above is the starting point penalty as detailed in the QRIC Penalty Guidelines for a breach of rule AHHR.167(1), which is entering the Sprint Lane. As you can also see there is no starting point penalty for a breach of rule AHRR.167(2). That is because the two parts of the rule […]
Peter McMullen is a protected species. On Saturday night he was protected from a potential 4-week or greater suspension that would have sidelined him from driving for almost the entire Winter Carnival. McMullen was protected by being charged with the wrong offence, or more correctly by being charged with only half of the correct offence. […]
We saw in the previous story how Pete McMullen cheated in The Hayden. But did Grant Dixon cheat too? It sure looks like it. Watch this slow motion replay of when the favored Team Dixon runner Cool And Classy driven by Trista got out from the pocket it was stuck in 3-back the fence. Trista […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APM21062502.mp4 Peter McMullen and his wife Chantal Turpin did everything legally within their power to ensure that they won the $216 000 The Hayden at Albion Park last night, and in Pete’s case some things illegal too. The husband and wife pair’s legal team driving tactics succeeded in getting their heavily backed runner Attachment $11.00 […]
Coolmore famously struck a huge deal worth $50 million to buy the then Bott and Waterhouse trained 2-year-old Storm Boy after his booming win in last year’s Magic Millions. It is starting to appear very much like they have done their dough. The hype on Storm Boy was huge at the time. He was going […]
You’d be smiling too if you tipped six winners in a row Who is this academic who tipped the Big 6 with single selections many readers are asking. We came across this rare piece of footage in the archives of the naked tipster Dr Georgia Whiting being interviewed by the ABC on the streets of […]
