Two up-and-coming Sydney drivers provided samples to stewards at a race meeting in Goulburn. DNA analysis showed the urine in both was from the same person.
The state government has asked Harness Racing Victoria to hand over its Melton land in exchange for wiping out its debt. But now the industry has found out the land’s true value.
Aaron Goadsby has refused to comply with an order from NSW stewards to hand over his devices for an investigation and is taking his battle to the Supreme Court.
Five years ago,Victoria was considered the best harness racing precinct in Australasia. Now it is facing an ‘unprecedented crisis’.
Many believed harness racing in Victoria would survive because the industry owned a valuable parcel of suburban land. Then they learnt how much money the governing body had borrowed.
Albion Park was going to have an Olympic stadium,then an indoor sport centre,but will at least keep its racetrack under a planned redevelopment of the inner-city site.
Hilly had no opposition at Leeton on Friday after the other eight runners in the field were scratched in the wake of a bombshell report into Tasmanian harness racing.
Champion driver Chris Alford found a novel way to get beaten as a snapped gig sent him from winning to sliding along the track at a Maryborough harness meeting on Monday.
The only mare in the $2.1 million race won the Eureka at Menangle as the $26 outsider charged past and away from odds-on favourite Leap To Fame.
RIchard Matthews’ family will bear witness as Catch A Wave attempts to win the inaugural running of the world’s richest harness race at Menangle on Saturday.
It’s taken more than 5000 winners,but driver Grant Dixon might have finally found the ride that will crown a career which has withstood more challenges than most.