Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Winona Writer won 7 of her first 10 starts between April 2021 and April 2022. The mare hadn’t won one in 25 starts since. She looked pretty buggered, so her owners put her up for sale. Guess who bought her? Summit and Bain. They gave her first to Chelsea Prothero, the girlfriend of and bowler […]
Following the partial abandonments of race meetings at Ellerslie on 10 and 20 April, New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR), in conjunction with Auckland Thoroughbred Racing (ATR), advises that the planned winter renovation of the track will commence immediately with the race meeting scheduled to be held at Ellerslie on May 25th moving to Pukekohe Park. […]
Ben Talbot is the Chairperson of the Wagga Greyhound Club. He is also the brother of Adrian Talbot, the person at the centre of the storm surrounding the discovery of the carcasses of 500 dead horses buried on or next to his property outside Wagga. Adrian Talbot is widely said to have been slaughtering brumbies […]
In January 2018 a greyhound named Better Cruise trained by Ben Talbot raced at Wagga. Better Cruise tried to fight or bite another dog during the race, an action which is known as marring. After being inspected by the on-course vet after the race, the dog was found to have no injury or physical problem […]
These bets you see at the top are fair dinkum wagers, published by one of Australia’s largest bookmakers on the bet ticker available on its app. $80 grand the place on a pacer on a pacer in race 4 at Wagga last night. Who said you can’t get a bet on at the trots on […]
Unless otherwise stated, references in this chapter to: ‑ sections, are to the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (CPA) ‑ rules, are to the Criminal Procedure Rules 2012 (“the rules”). When can costs orders be made? The court may make a costs order where there has been a significant procedural failure in the course of a […]
by Jake Kenny Early one spring morning in 2018, teams of police officers began storming harness racing stables around the country. Over the next two days, 17 properties – stables and homes in Canterbury, Manawatū and Invercargill belonging to some of the sport’s top identities – were raided, culminating in 11 industry figures being accused […]
Anyone who religiously follows the Tonkin/Stewart stable is eating cold porridge mixed with water this morning after both of their runners at Maryborough yesterday went down. Vague Beauty started at $1.90 in the 4th race and looked home to the world down the straight, before it lost interest and fell in a hole to throw […]
Every horse trainer of either code in New Zealand is up in arms about the ridiculously light 4-month disqualification that the Racing Integrity Board have handed down to the animal abuser Kurtis Pertab, and quite rightly so, for this vile grub should have been banned for life for what he did, or at least outed […]
No wonder they couldn’t afford to build Norwell!!! So Redcliffe is getting new lights, sounds good to me, (I am going to move there!) but at a price tag of $6m?? Seriously for just lights? https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=65009 2 odd years ago Melton got new lights and remodelled their infield to make it a multipurpose venue at […]
