Alexandra Park Underwater
I suspect that it may be a while before we race at Alexandra Park again. This photo was taken yesterday. What a bloody mess.
The $440 000 French Trotter is Dead – The Vet Suspects it Was a Suicide
Holzarte Vedaquais is a young trotter that Tim Butt bought out of France for $440 000 while on an all expenses paid by Harness Racing Australia ‘study tour’ and flogged to all comers with a pitch declaring it to be the next big thing. Butt said the same about the original horse that he wanted […]
Why Has Ben Yole Got Teenagers Driving Horses Home From the Races at Two in the Morning?
Why are teenage kids driving home from one end of Tasmania to other at two in the morning towing a float with four horses in it? What time did the driver start work? Why are they towing four horses in a float pulled by a Ford Ranger, when the Ranger’s towing capacity is a maximum […]
Clip Clop Kev Scoops the SA Pool
Yesterday the SA Harness Racing Club that used to own Globe Derby voted to sell it. Well sort of anyway, but not quite. The club has been run as a rort for years, in various different ways. Dodgy land deals have been done, cash floats have disappeared, alcohol stocks ever consistently vanish, odd robberies occur […]
Trot Tragedy in Tasmania
Five young people all under the age of 21 are in hospital and four horses are dead after a car after a white Ford Ranger that one of them was driving at 1.45am last night left the road, crashed into a tree stump and rolled on the Batman Highway. The poor kids are trots people […]
Have a Look at This Will You?
Tasracing Review Report 2020 – Tasmanian Government Well look at this will you? Every single Tasmanian adult contributes $58.68 from their taxes to fund harness racing on the Apple Isle. Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole wins most of it. He won more last year in prizemoney than the other nine of the top ten trainers combined. So […]
The Boys (and Girls) Are Back in Town
I want you to have a look at two races at Albion Park on Friday night. Before you do, just remind yourself of these connections. Peter McMullen – husband of Chantal Turpin; brother of Narissa, Taleah and Danielle; cousin of Nathan, Kelli and Trent Dawson. Chantal Turpin – sister of footy player Jake Turpin; daughter […]
The Second Hot Race at the Creek on Friday
So we turn to race 7, and here we have the inter-connections as follows: 1 – trained and driven by Trent Dawson, owned by Crystal Towns 2 – trained and owned by Ryan Veivers 3 – driven by Nathan Dawson 5 – trained by Ron Sallis, driven by Narissa McMullen 7 – trained by Ron […]
The War is Over – Globe Derby Win – South Australian Harness Racing is Ruined (First Published March 2022)
George Fiacchi was appointed by the SA Government as its general to launch a war against Globe Derby. Fiacchi’s mission was to take on the club and take over their SA trot citadel, then strip it bare and sell everything that it owned to the favoured bidder. We told you this three years ago, and […]
Office Chicks? – You’re Out of Touch Gold Coast Turf Club, and Races Named Like This are Out of Time
Can you believe that in the post #metoo, Jeffrey Epstein and his odious mate Ghislaine Maxwell, Prince Andrew, Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins age, the Gold Coast Turf Club still thinks it is okay to name a race the OFFICE CHICKS QTIS 2YO HANDICAP? That’s what the first race yesterday was called. The office chicks? […]