Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trot Adam Ruggari has been outed for 3 years and 3 months after committing his 4th substance rule breach for one of his horses throwing a positive TCO2 swab. The bloke is clearly a slow learner isn’t he? What smart man milkshakes a horse with absolute confidence unless they are paying the Steward in charge […]
I think trot trainer Jarred Hetherington’s appeal hearing comes up next week in the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal. Well not his appeal, theirs. Harness Racing NSW’s. Why on God’s earth, at a time that prizemoney is being slashed all over the place, would HRNSW spend large amounts of good industry people’s money paying its lawyers […]
.. that the five trainers whose horses threw them, and who have been charged, were told on the sly by Racing Victoria Stewards that if they pleaded guilty all they would get is a $500 fine. In good faith, and based on the representations made to them, the trainers all pleaded guilty. Then at VRT […]
Have a bloody look at this drive by young Cooper Griffiths on Three Rivers in the last at Tamworh will you. What an absolute disgrace. Three Rivers and the winner of the race Arnie’s Army are stablemates, both trained by Tom Ison. Ison elected to drive Arnie, and put the kid on Rivers. Rivers blew […]
Coffey and his dad, popular Swan Hill thoroughbred trainer Austy, have taken the reins for one of the slots in the inaugural Running of the Bulls, in the Mallee town of Birchip – and organising a massive family reunion at the historic event on Sunday week, March 8. The Coffey family is among the 10 […]
There is a lot of conjecture at the moment about what might might happen when Queensland’s greatest trotter ever Gus and Victoria’s best of the 21st century Keayang Zahara will finally meet. Which if it won’t be in the Hammerhead at Menangle will almost certainly be in The Trot at Cambridge. I can tell you […]
We are going to publish some stories critical of Nathan Dawson in the come coming days, but first we thought we would show you why. Dawson is an absolutely gun driver when he tries. Tuesday’s steer on Frankie Ferocious confirms it. This was the perfect drive. No bum could have done it. Hold that thought. […]
Stavros Kipirtidis is an old Greek dog trainer from Melbourne. He is a bit of a rogue, but this is racing, aren’t we all? One of Stav’s dogs threw a positive swab to hydrocortisone, which is a steroid but nothing like stanozolol or big time performance enhancers like that. It’s the medicine my daughter takes […]
Tapentadol is a heavy duty painkiller, a synthetic form of heroin, which in itself is a synthetic type of morphine. Bob and Vinnie Knight’s success was born on morphine. Feel no pain, run pain free. Paul Tonkin had an excuse for horse throwing a positive swab to trace elements of the stuff. He had been […]
What you see at the top is New Zealand harness racing rule 869(3)(b). Can you read what it says in red? Any time a driver hits a wheel it is an offence, punishable by a fine or suspension. Junior driver Seth Hill knows this. He recently shifted in and hit another driver’s wheel during a […]
