Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mick Boots (pictured above, left) is Australia’s biggest harness racing owner. He owns or owns shares in 300 horses. Pacer and trotters cost about $800 a week one average in training fees. Assume Mick Boots pays the equivalent of 200 training fees, and that means that he is paying $160 000 a week to have […]
As you can see in the story below, trot trainer/driver Jordan Topping has form for animal welfare breaches. Her partner Ryan Veivers does too. This pair are not people who care properly for horses. Now we learn from the Harness Racing Australia website that last month Jordan Topping copped 2 x 6 month disqualifications, to […]
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
DR LUK SUN CHIN, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit By Michael Guerin One of horse racing’s most enduring and loved characters says he “is a bit embarrassed” about being honoured in today’s King’s Birthday Honours. “It is a lovely honour but I have so many other people’s help in all facets of […]
QLD Racing Minister Tim Mander came to the job with a track record of honesty and integrity, and was widely regarded as a man who could be trusted to keep his word. That reputation of Mander’s was exploded when he cheated on his wife and mother of his children by commencing an affair with his […]
The Crisafulli Government has secured the future of greyhound racing in Bundaberg with the delivery of a new sand track for the community. Local participants have been left without a place to race since September last year after the grass track at the Bundaberg Greyhound Racing Club was deemed unfit for racing. Under the former […]
Hong Kong Our mate Lucky Lingard on his ever impressive website letsgohorseracing.com.au has highlighted James McDonald’s ride on Romantic Warrior in the Group 1 Champions and Chater Cup at Sha Tin last week, and called it into question. In support of his proposition that J-Mac was let off light Lucky has reproduced the thoughts of […]
Savannah in the Round in Mareeba looks like the bomb. Icehouse, Gangajang, Mossie, The Wolfe Brothers, Dragon, Max Jackson, Lee Kernaghan, Chocolate Starfish, Brooke McLymont – whose Auntie I once had a dalliance with – Don McLean and more. How could you miss it? Maggie and I will be there with bells on. As long […]
I am no fan of Mark Latham, in fact quite the opposite. But everyone gets it right sometimes. And Latham has done here.
Harness Racing New Zealand has enjoyed a huge windfall in recent years from the injection of capital (cash) that Entain injected into the Kiwi racing codes to secure the monopoly rights to operate the TAB, including a five-year funding guarantee and a share of the $100 million that the global gambling giant paid to secure […]
