Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
CEO Matthew Isaacs claims that Harness Racing Victoria delivers racing with world-class integrity programs. If Isaacs truly believes that he must be delusional. Last night was the richest night of racing on the Victorian harness racing calendar, with 12 finals of the VicBred Super Series run worth a combined total of $1.5 million. There were […]
On one of the biggest nights of the year in Victorian harness racing, when the horses are competing to win $1.5 million in prizemoney, guess how many runners on the 12 race card were pre-race swabbed? Eleven. One per race excluding race nine, when none were. How many of Emma Stewart’s 35 runnefrs were pre-race […]
In our story yesterday we predicted that Emma Stewart would win six of last night’s VicBred Super Series finals. Bang on the money we were. Stewart won every single one of the pacers final, and ran the quinella in each of them too. Her horses filled the first 7 placings in one final, the first […]
Was that the long-forgotten trot media identity Marshall Dobson seen entering the caretaker’s cottage at the Redcliffe Paceway with a suitcase under his arm? Why is Dobson seemingly holidaying just a half hours drive away from his home without his wife? Will John Paul Langroek give his good mate Dobson a media advisor gig when […]
You’d never know it by looking at him now, but Drew Crouch was once a professional athlete who was contracted to the Brisbane Bullets basketball team Like another elite Central Queensland athlete John Dyer – who once beat Greg Norman to win a QLD Open, but gave a professional career as a golfer away to […]
This morning we told you about Timothy Robin Vince, and how the rogue who is NZ’s biggest punter was becoming increasingly aligned with Australian stables that were having huge runs of success. Stonefish venom was mentioned in the discussion, a strange and often quite deadly substance that we speculated was being used as a performance […]
The big questions in harness racing tonight are how many of the Vicbred Super Series finals Emma Stewart wins, and how much prizemoney her stable takes home. Let’s see if we can work it out. Race 1 – 4yo Entires and Geldings Pace $150 000 Stewart trains 5 of the 12 runners in this race […]
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
So what has the Auckland Trotting Club’s president Jamies ‘Watches’ Mackinnon achieved with his messages to members sent out this morning? Let’s number them for posterity shall we? Watches has variously: Confirmed that everything peter profit has been writing about the Chinese land developer not coming up with the $90 million lump sum required to […]
The Auckland Trotting Club has filled a casual vacancy by appointing the President’s daughter to the board. No advertising of the role. No call for expressions of interest. No invitation for members to apply. No testing of the market. No merit based selection process. President Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon merely steps out of the room for […]
