Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The recent case of harness racing trainer Craig Turnbull and his horse Star To Fall throwing a positive swab to Cotinine and Trans-3’-hydroxycotinine after winning a race at Wagga highlights the very real problem with the methods employed by Harness Racing NSW to test swabs. Cotinine and Trans-3’-hydroxycotinine are, as the name suggests, metabolites of […]
Race 3 at Longreach yesterday turned out to be an absolute debacle. Firstly four runners were late scratchings because there were no jockeys on course to ride them. Next the stirrup leather of the odds-on favourite Yes Larry broke on the way to the barriers and rider Robbie Faehr was thrown off. Faehr was unhurt, […]
WA trot trainer Mike Reed was scheduled to attend in inquiry last Thursday into his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to the banned beta blocker Solatol after winning a race at Gloucester Park in late November. We don’t know whether or not the inquiry proceeded, or whether Reed attended, but what we do […]
Racing Queensland confirms that a back-up race meeting has been programmed for the Polytrack at Sunshine Coast Turf Club on Sunday, March 22, in the event the club’s race meeting on its course proper on the day is unable to proceed. In the event there is a deluge of rain which causes the course […]
I keep telling you that G0t The Chocolates is a superstar. Watch what it did again at Addington last might and if you don’t already believe me, perhaps now you will. The scary thing is that Marketplace is just as good. They are the best two pacers in New Zealand, my favourite horse Merlin and […]
Good afternoon, I refer to the article ‘So How and Why Did It Drop Dead? – We Will Never Know Now Will We’ published on your website on 17 March 2026. So How and Why Did It Drop Dead? – We Will Never Know Now Will We? Some matters in the publication require address. Firstly, I […]
I have to preface what f0llows by saying that I backed the winner Princess Gracy. and profited from her victory considerably. So I am not talking through my kick. When I watched the Listed Magnus Benrow Sires Stakes Northern Mares Classic live last night, and as I watch it on replay (below) since, I keep […]
Why the hell do people insist on saying this sort of stuff on their professional profiles? Wouldn’t it just be assumed that a bloke who is married is a good family man who loves his wife and kids? After all, that is the whole point of being married and being a father isn’t it? What’s […]
In a story earlier this week we made an assertion that North QLD Steward Darryl Griffiths formerly part-owned a Fortitude Valley strip club. This assertion was absolutely incorrect. We confused Mr Griffiths with a former Steward who did in fact own such a club. The story was wrong in that respect, and has been amended. […]
Remember that trotter Lain that we wrote about yesterday? The one who wasn’t qualified to race, and had to be scratched from the last race at Albion Park tonight? Well he might not be racing but Lain will be at the track anyway. He is a late inclusion into a trial, where he will attempt […]
