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Queensland jockey Corey Bayliss has been jailed for 2 years after pleading guilty to strangling his former partner in front of their child, and then threatening to distribute intimate visual recordings of the poor woman unfortunate enough to have been the victim of his evil acts. Both crimes were domestic violence offences, at a time […]
The weekly costs to race a pacer or trotter are roughly the same in every state of Australia. Travel costs differ from state to state, but base costs of feed, rent, supplements, vets and equipment differ little. Which is why prizemoney matters so much, particularly in the main states of NSW, QLD, VIC and WA, […]
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I used to think Black Caviar was the greatest sprinter I had ever seen. After what Ka Ying Rising did at Sha Tin on Sunday now I am not so sure, Sacred Kingdom set the Sha Tin track record of 1.07.50 in the year 2007, and it stood unbroken for 17 years. Until Ka Ying […]
What you see above is the race track yesterday at Bundaberg, with the photo taken by a reader who was there. The inside looks alright doesn’t it? In fact it looks a whole lot better than the middle and the outer. So how come no jockey all day wanted to go near it? That’s because […]
The 9-year-old English hurdler Constitution Hill has for 6 months now been touted as a genuine Melbourne Cup prospect, despite being old enough to vote and having only ever won a pair of Novice races on the flat. Sportsbet even had the audacity to post him up in their early markets as a $15.00 shot […]
Jockey Ryan Wiggins has been in more trouble than Flash Gordon for careless riding in recent weeks. He was very lucky to get away with this one at the Coast yesterday with only a reprimand. Wiggins is on the horse in the black silks with blue stars and hooped sleeves. The one that bores in […]
Has anyone been wondering why the once highly promising apprentice turned senior jockey Corey Bayliss hasn’t been riding lately. If this chap who appeared for sentence in the Ipswich District Court last week is the same person as he – not that we are asserting that it is – then we might just have the […]
A month or so back we tipped you off that a couple of trot drivers had been caught with prohibited substances in their systems after without notice drug testing was conducted at a Wagga race meeting. Drug Scandal Rocks the Riverina One of them was leading Riverina reinsman Blake Jones. The substance concerned was cocaine. […]
There is a somewhat interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this week. It relates to the death of a racehorse named River Danzka in early 2025, and the reasons behind it. River Danzka was a slow 5-year-old gelding trained by former Mount Isa race club President Peter Inwood, and had been beaten […]
