Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A prominent Cairns racehorse owner sent this picture to me yesterday. Apparently Grubby Day put it up on social media. That was nice of him, because I’ve never seen his granddaughter before. She looks like a nice kid. Must throw to her Mum. Is Nathan Day’s companion old enough to drink? Doesn’t he have any […]
In the same week that the NZ government announced that it was closing greyhound racing down on welfare grounds, the peak body of the sport in NSW have gone and named a Group 1 race after a man who was once disqualified for 12 months for breaching animal welfare regulations by selling dogs for export […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC14122408.mp4 I have seen some pretty questionable drives in my time, but Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen’s steer on Miki Magic in the 6th race at Albion Park last night was right up there with the best (or worst) of them. Miki Magic opened up as the equal $3.10 favorite for the race, but despite being a […]
Keep your eye on the inside tyre of the leader in this replay of race 2 at Addington on Friday night. It goes flat and comes completely off the rim at the candy pole. Somehow the horse races on its rim for a quarter mile and still manages somehow to win the race. Now that’s […]
Sophie Jack is bred to be a Group 1 winner. By Daniel Jack (Nowitzki) out of Sonia Mahar (Self Denial), her sire and dam are both winners at the elite level, as is the closely related Nathan Jack (her uncle) and both her grandsires. These bloodlines run strong, as young Sophie proved last night by […]
A few weeks back we wrote about how swabbing at QLD metropolitan race meetings has been vastly enhanced under the leadership of QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly, who was perhaps Australia’s – if not the world’s – best Steward prior to taking up his new executive role. It’s pleasing to see that the swabbing at […]
We often hear Stewards use the terms general deterrence and specific deterrence as the drivers for determining the penalties handed down to licensees who breach the rules. Specific deterrence as it relates to a penalty means basically “How hard do we need to hit this person for a breach of the rules to make sure […]
This morning we published a story about the protest in the last race at Kilmore last night. In the story we were critical of the decision of the HRV Stewards to relegate the winner, suggesting that they had forgotten that the Lapped On rule had been repealed, and describing the relegation as a joke. Well […]
THE New Zealand government’s decision to ban greyhound racing is based on “nonsense” according to a leading NZ vet. And the government has been captured by woke activists from the SPCA, SAFE and the NZ Vet Association, all of them vocal minorities. That’s the backlash from Donald Arthur who has been a veterinary surgeon for […]
Victorian trainers David Vozlic and Aaron Coad – the pair whose feud on social media we wrote about yesterday – just don’t know when to stop. Here they are at it again. If Harness Racing Victoria weren’t going to go after them already for breaching the Social Media Policy and/or the rules, they almost certainly […]
