Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you remember that matter we told you about a while back where trot trainer Ricky Gordon presented the wrong horse to race at a meeting at Albion Park, or more precisely when he or a staff member put a mare out to compete that was supposed to be a gelding? Well the whole thing […]
Like many a country race club, the Bowen Turf Club has been forced in face of a State-wide jockey shortage to resort to digging into its own pocket to try and attract hoops to come and ride at its meetings. All credit to the club for doing so, but it shouldn’t have to. Racing QLD […]
Who the hell do Harness Racing Australia think they are to presume that just because I write observational opinion pieces about the trots, I am therefore deemed to be bound by the rules that they – without any consultation with me, or consideration of my views – have drafted and enacted. And who do half-baked […]
Turaroi Tokoma, the slave without the shirt. My kids great-great grandfather. My wife’s great-grandfather – my children’s ancestor – was a slave, stolen from his island home in the waters between the Solomon Islands and PNG, and taken thousands of miles away to labour for white men without wages and at the threat of whipping […]
The QLD coat of arms is a crock of shit, an antiquated, unrepresentative, sexist symbol of something this great State is not and doesn’t want to be, a paean to the days when we were a colony of England rather a free state of the great democratic nation of Australia. Do you even know our […]
According to the QRIC, the QLD Harness Racing Penalty Guidelines were created and introduced to provide • transparency to all stakeholders on decision-making relating to breaches of the Australian Harness Racing Rules (AHRR); and • licensed participants in the harness code of racing of the penalties they may incur for breaching the AHRR: and • […]
Do you remember Evander Holyfield jumping up and down like a madman from the pain after Mike Tyson bit his ear off if that infamous world heavyweight title bout? Here it is again if you don’t. Now watch the replay of the early part of the 2nd race at Devonport today. Our mail is that […]
These are the stones found by jockeys on the tapeta track at Devonport today before the meeting was called off. You would have to be f**king kidding kidding wouldn’t you? Tasracing should be prosecuted under workplace health and safety laws. Remember how David slew Goliath? It’s a miracle no horse or rider got blinded or […]
How the hell does a race meeting held in overcast but otherwise relatively fine weather of a synthetic tapeta surface get called off after 2 races due to the state of the track? I guess you’d have to ask Tasracing who were in charge of the refurbishment of the course proper. They have f**ked it […]
