Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One of our readers tried to have $5.00 on a horse at Albany tomorrow @$9.00 with Bet365, one of the world’s largest bookmakers. They cut his bet back to $1.00. You’d have to be kidding wouldn’t you? In WA bookmakers have to bet a punter to lose $1000 on provincial thoroughbred meetings, but sadly for […]
Leading WA harness racing trainer Mike Reed has been disqualified for 6 month for his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to Solatol, a human beta blocker used off label on horses as an antiarrhythmic to treat atrial fibrillation. Oddly, Reed did not claim environmental contamination, but rather put evidence before the Stewards ed that […]
Now that the Sydney carnival is over the worst kept secret in harness racing has finally been revealed. A Jason Grimson trained horse has thrown a positive swab. The horse in question is Delightful Star, which ran 2nd in the G3 Ladyship Cup at Melton on the 18th of October last year. The drug in […]
Pull the whip Mick!
Court showdown on cards after Group 1 swab shock Connections of last year’s Group 1 Breeders’ Challenge Final winner are contemplating heading to the Supreme Court after their horse was stripped of the race due to a positive swab charge. Two-year-old filly Ark Sea tested positive to Synephrine following her win at Menangle last October […]
The jungle drums are beating that Mick Dittman has been, or is about to be, appointed as a member of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), to replace Skye Bogenhuber, who is reportedly making a comeback to race riding. If the rumor is true – which we believe it to be – it creates quite […]
Archie I have a strong opinion on apprentices. The system in QLD is clearly failing them. The amount of raw talent is huge, the poor kids have no direction or support. Firstly the fact that they receive 100% of their money on a weekly basis is a disaster. I’m hearing of kids with huge tax […]
Harness Racing SA, backed with State Government money, last year signed a deal to take over the Gawler harness race track on a lease from the club, and promised to develop it. HRSA by all reports received a million dollars to construct lights at Gawler. $1 million wouldn’t even scratch the surface of the cost. […]
Alwaysbjoy had 2 runs in New Zealand and was only average. It gets sold to Australia and sent to the stable of Chantal Turpin aka Pete McMullen. You can see what is coming next, can’t you? Alwaysbjoy runs a bottler first up when it sits in the death outside its super smart stablemate in the […]
So Autumn Glow is off to the QEII. A Queen for a Queen’s race. How appropriate is that. If she is as good as Winx like they all say she will win by panels.
