The Auckland Trotting Club Just Keeps on Throwing Its Members Good Money After Bad – And Making Bad Decisions With Money That’s Not Its Own

The Auckland Trotting Club has been a train wreck ever since the then committee decided that they would gamble all of the club members money and assets on a bunch of utterly unqualified Director’s ability to transform themselves from record store owners (Rod ‘Biscuits’ Croon) and watch salesman (Jamie ‘Watches’ Mackinnon) into large scale property […]

Where Did Ippy’s $30 Million Go?

So yet another race meeting is cancelled at Ipswich on what was a fine, dry Spring day, after 14 days of brilliant weather with just 1mm of rain recorded across the fortnight. https://www.farmonlineweather.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=40875&list=rb The stated reason is that certain parts of the track were unsafe t0 race on. But how could it be, and why? […]

Green Lights, Climbing Mountains, and Pre-Race Blood Tests

Unbelievably proud of the team! Darren/Brad Elder, Tom Ison and his family, plus all their staff that work tirelessly for us, this is just the beginning. These were the results for the day Race 1- the first fourRace 2- the first twoRace 3- first and third Race 4- the first… https://t.co/AleUItGFbA — Summit Bloodstock (@summitbloodstoc) […]

Most Big Organisations Move on Weekends or After Hours, Without any Interruption to Their Customers

Harness Racing New Zealand moved offices yesterday. The organisation’s planning for the move was of such a brilliant standard that it decided to shut its computer system down for the day while it moved, affecting licensees and punters across 3 continents. Wouldn’t you move your computer system on the weekend or at midnight, when customer […]

The Racing Appeals Tribunal Find That It’s Jason Grimson’s Human Right to King Hit a Bloke Being Restrained by a Security Guard and Not Get a DQ – What a Cracker – Next Thing You Know Jill Will Be Winning the Nobel Peace Prize

The QRAP is very well named judging by it’s decision this week in the Jason Grimson appeal case. It found in effect that while Jason Grimson’s conduct in king hitting a drinker at the bar named Adam Russo while he (Russo) was being restrained by a security guard was of a serious nature – you […]

The QRAP Make it Up as They Go – It’s No Wonder They Don’t Want Lay Advocates in Their Appeals – They Might Show Them Up

There are a few curiosities and a couple of real odd ones too in the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (the ‘QRAP’) decision in  the successful appeal of Justin ‘Tatts’ Downey against his 12 month sentence for starting a melee at the trots by assaulting another person. Firstly the QRAP found that the precedent case in […]

Adman Breaks His Silence on the Emma Stewart Raceday Administration Scandal – By Quoting From a Stewart Tonkin Racing Media Release – That’s Real Journalism!

Champion harness trainer Emma Stewart has broken her silence around the circumstances around Harness Racing Victoria stewards scratching two of her pacers, including Inter Dominion placegetter Act Now, from last Sunday’s Maryborough Cup meeting. Stewart, who won five of the 12 Group 1 Vicbred finals at Melton last Saturday night, released a statement around the […]

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