Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Turn around bright eyes ….. No wonder Harness Racing SA CEO Dean Elliott can’t find the time to order his Chief Stewards to charge trainer Shane Loone over the ring-in he pulled at Globe Derby. It seems that Elliott is too busy posing for photos with alleged cocaine trafficking kingpins to attend to the integrity […]
The board of Harness Racing New Zealand is set for a major shakeup, with the Chairman, his deputy and five of the other 8 current directors of the principal body moving on or being moved on at next month’s AGM. Phil Holden, Cam Bray, Todd Anderson, John Coulam, Bill McDonald, John Grainger and Anna Gallien […]
Keep your eyes on apprentice Braith Nock in the lime and red silks and red cap, second from the outside, in this race at Hawkesbury last Saturday week. Watch what he does to the rider and horse on his outside, first with his knee and then with his elbow. Nock pleaded guilty to a charge […]
With 26 new stakes races this season, HRNZ’s unregulated calendar is now completely out of kilter with international standards Harness racing’s already bloated stakes calendar has now become completely disproportionate. Between those already announced, and those set to be next week by Harness Racing New Zealand, 26 new Group and Listed races are being added […]
Archie In regard to your recent story about Aladdin, there is one thing that you’ve missed. Aladdin was purchased by his SA owners two days before he won the Harness Millions, not afterward. We crow eaters got the cash. Harold from Hampton.
The Slots for the Ultimate Driver Championship have been sold, and the world first concept of punters owning a drive without breaking the rules or the law is set and ready to go. Everyone’s favorite Kiwi syndicator the Canary is there, by virtue of his involvement with Boys Get Paid, the betting club that had […]
For the second week in a row we’ve had to wait 5 days for the Saturday night Melton meeting Stewards Report to be published, something that we in Queensland came to accept as the norm under Chief Steward Peter ‘the Plodder’ Chadwick’s watch, but is unacceptable in every regard. When we finally do see the […]
Archie Thanks for noting the Daniel Ganderton penalty, I missed that one hidden at the bottom of a steward report rather than being a separate enquiry as it should have been. Chief Steward Bruce Free ‘Ride’ had 3 misconduct matters to deal with, and he sounded like the old broken record on each one with […]
If this protest decision in the 5th at Mackay on Tuesday wasn’t a raw prawn left out in the sun for six days, then I don’t one that was. The horse in the yellow and olive diagonal stripes beats the one in the cream and brown on its outside by a nose. A protest if […]
We wrote just the other day about how easing up on a leader and getting beaten is a jockey’s worst nightmare. Michael Cahill is a bit old for having nightmares you would have thought, but you’d be wrong. The Group 1 winning rider with 4 decades of riding experience had one yesterday at Doomben, and […]
