Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hello Peter I think QRIC should be held accountable for not having their Health Assessment forms dated for the upcoming racing season at the top of their yearly forms. Then the rort probably wouldn’t have happened. I stopped riding work last year. Never ever even thought of trying to rig it. But the QRIC need […]
New Zealand’s favorite unregistered syndicator Andrew ‘the Canary” Fitzgerald has unleashed another of his world class stooges on innocent trot fans eager to become involved at the lower end of the ownership spectrum. The horse in question is the filly Smackdown, the knock kneed pacer in the picture that the Canary has been selling 1/1000th […]
This interview by Adam Pengilly with Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison appears in the latest edition of the excellent racing publication Idol Horse. It is well worth a read, as is Idol Horse. From Mini Mutiny To Melbourne Cup: Morrison Lifts Lid On Racing’s Tipping Point Aaron Morrison walked into the hot seat as Racing […]
Hall of Fame member and harness racing legend Barry Purdon returns to the cart for his first drive in six years this afternoon at Alexandra Park. Purdon, whose last race drive was way back in 2019, takes the reins on his highly talented but often temperamental 3-year-old square gaiter Higher Power in the fourth race […]
Former Sunshine Coast trainer Damien Batters has been declared bankrupt after Workcover lodged a creditor’s petition seeking to recover debts that he owed for unpaid workers compensation insurance premiums. The bankruptcy comes as the latest blow for Batters, who was stood down by the QRIC in November last year after being charged by police with […]
The problem with small field sizes for harness races in the North Island of New Zealand continues apace, with 2/3rds of races run or about to be run this month in the region having fields of less than 8 runners, the sort of numbers that spell wagering turnover death. Cambridge is the worst affected track, […]
Juvenile chaser Bad Boy Red didn’t even live to see its second birthday before it died at the end of a vets needle on Sunday after suffering catastrophic injuries when dragged down and falling on the first turn at the Q2 Lakeside track. According to statistics published on the website of animal activist group the […]
Ausssie racing man and literary giant Gerald Murnane has once more missed out on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, this time beaten by a writer from the land of Kincsem, the legendary Hungarian mare who went through her 54 start career at home and abroad unbeaten, including wins in the Goodwood Cup in England […]
Racing Review question Doesn’t QLD gallops race clockwise? And QLD harness (all harness just about) race anti clockwise? So if they shift it inside a gallops track are they: A/ going to build a grandstand and finish line stuff and all at the other end of the front straight or in the back straight? B/ […]
Luke Tarrant had it all. He could have been anything, anywhere. But he just couldn’t stay on the straight and narrow. It seems he still can’t. There is no-one to blame for his troubles but him. Herb from Hughenden Editor’s note – Luke Tarrant’s strike rates over the past 5 seasons paint a clear picture […]
