Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie Spotted at the Creek …… With the big wet… Albion Park tries shifting their usual day meeting to Tuesday night (it’s the 1st of April but this is not a Fool’s joke). There is an interesting little gathering in the dilapidated old stand … a former bookie (who is a fixture at every meeting, […]
Now that Michael Poy and his wicked co-conspirators time in the racing tribunals has ended with Poy’s 13-year disqualification from the game, it’s time for them to be criminally prosecuted. In Victoria, the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) prohibits activity which may constitute match-fixing. These include: engaging in conduct that corrupts or would corrupt a betting outcome […]
Less than two weeks after Tasmanian Parliament heard testimony that he was involved in horse doping, race fixing, and animal welfare breaches, Ben Yole has made application for a stay of his three year sentence for mistreatment of his racing animals. Given the wonky state of some of the evidence that sunk him, Yole just […]
A couple of months ago we told you about Zev Meredith, the junior driver with a pot problem who, when he realised the Stewards were doing drug testing at Alexandra Park, phoned in to tell them his car had broken down and he couldn’t get to the races, and then turned up at the track. […]
My racing mates from Victoria are all afraid to swim at Four Mile Beach when they come up to Port Douglas to visit. They’re all scared of crocodiles. The fools. It’s the sharks you need to worry about. We went down to the beach yesterday for our daily salt water swim, but it was closed. […]
With race clubs in Australia increasingly seeking to secure non-racing revenue streams – predominantly through pubs and poker machines – this article from the US about the push and pull between cheap, easy income from the one armed bandits on one hand, and the expensive, difficult chore of holding race meetings on the other, is […]
We recently expressed our opinion that the AFL had erred by allowing A-grade referee Nick Foote to continue his side hustle as a racing tipster sponsored by corporate bookmaker Sportsbet. In light of this video (at bottom) published this week on the 2Units website featuring Foot (the clean shaven one) and his business partner Dave […]
This photo of Phar Lap with Gerald Telford, the son of trainer Harry Telford sitting on his back, was shot in 1931 on a property at Bacchus Marsh. It was taken just prior to the great horse’s ill-fated trip to North America in November, 1931, and is held in the Museum Victoria Collections. What a […]
The Mallee is alive with chatter about a certain trainer and their love of a drench. They say the trainer is from the south, and travels up for the Mildura meetings. parking their horses and themselves at the gallops track while they are in town. Word is that they did this when they came up […]
Enigmatic Queensland galloper Flash Aah has had more trainers than most people of had hot dinners,. Flash started his career with Jeffrey Caught, then went to Kelly Schweida, was transferred from him to Gregory Hickman in NSW, was sent back to QLD and trainer Mitch Fry, was moved from Fry to Matt Cropp, then travelled south to […]
