Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Financial Crisis 1? A leading Group 1 winning harness racing partnership and major standardbred syndicator is said to be suffering all sorts of money problems. So much so that the rumor is that an administrator has been called in. The mail follows months of speculation that the partnership has been very slow to pay its […]
We have written before about the Chad Schofield case, so we won’t bore you with the details. Guts of it is that due to a freak rainstorm, the Stewards had to make a decision on the effective start date of a suspension that Schofield had earlier incurred, and they made the wrong one. The QLD […]
It is hard not to agree with WW Cockram’s grandson Bill that the name of the race named in honor of his forebear has been changed in reprisal for him standing up and criticising former MRC Chairman and powerbroker John Kanga. Why else would the club have change the name of the race for 4YO […]
Tom Ison may not have driven to get his other horse up in race 2 at Tamworth yesterday, but he certainly did drive to get the first two in the betting market beaten, including the favorite, his own. Ison drives the 4 Nashville Bart. It is $2.15. Jemma Coney is on the 1 Ceejay Haich. […]
Bruce Negus is famous as the trainer of the champion Kiwi pacer Courage Under Fire. Together he and the midget pacer won 24 races in a row, including six Derbies, the Great Northern, NZ, Victorian, NSW, QLD and Australian. It had never been done before, and it never will again. What happened to Bruce Negus […]
Why do racing licensees like the Kiwi driver in the decision below place bets in breach of the rules on accounts held in their own name? Or allow others to do it, either tacitly or by implication? What is wrong with these people? Why don’t they just use bowlers? Everyone else does. BACKGROUND: Prior to […]
Do you remember the case of Victorian trot trainer Scott Garraway, which we wrote about a couple of months ago? You can read about it at the link below if you don’t. An Abuse of Power IMO – A Classic Case of Stewards Over Reaching Nine horses trained by Garraway threw 17 positive swabs to […]
Racing Minister Tim Mander is asked by his ALP predecessor Grace Grace about Kim Kelly leaving and the reasons that he gave for his decision. She wants to know what the go is. Mander says that Kim Kelly is entitled to his views, and that he has expressed them in a series of meetings held […]
There has been a lot of conjecture about Ben Currie’s place in racing in recent months and weeks. There always is. Is Currie a villain who is somehow training by remote control in clear and present sight? Is he just a husband and father working within the rules to provide for his wife and kids? […]
We told you earlier this week that the latest Alligator Blood inquiry wouldn’t be the last, and that you could never write off Alligator Al’s capacity to find new and innovative ways to try and get his prizemoney and his way. The bloke is brilliantly intelligent but half mad, which anyone with an IQ like […]
