Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A lot of punters and scribes are getting excited about the Group 1 Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm on Saturday, and many are talking up the chances of the Naked Tipster’s favorite mare Splash Back, but I warn them all not to get too excited. The word from the early morning track that I’m hearing […]
Pauline hasn’t aged well has she? Bitterness does that to a woman’s looks. Who does she hate today? And why? Please explain. Editors Note: At the time Pauline Hanson that said it I reckon 3/4 of Australians didn’t know what xenophobic meant. I doubt that half of the punters still do today. Talk about playing […]
Do you remember us breaking the story a couple of years ago about Adrian Talbot, the brother of the then Wagga Greyhound Club President Ben Talbot, and how he was killing horses and chopping them up to sell to greyhound trainers, including his brother, for dog food? Here are the stories if you have forgotten. […]
Readers will be very familiar with the spate of jockeys and trackwork riders in QLD who have been outed in the past 18 months for lodging doctored health reports required for their annual license renewals. We now it seems like the Cane Toad, dodgy health reports have become a cross border plague that has entered […]
Jockey David Sparks had a day to forget at Julia Creek on the weekend, and not only because he didn’t ride a winner. Sparks got into an unprovoked verbal altercation with a fellow rider in the jockeys room after race 4, and abused them using language that we are told was most offensive indeed. He […]
Dear Sir Response to your recent story about the race clubs who don’t deserve a license, straight way there is one that comes to mind immediately in the Emerald Jockey Club. This club is involved in very well-known ongoing tirade and hostility towards a very popular and successful trainer at Emerald. Not only is this […]
Safety First? Or OT? There is increasing disquiet among racing participants who compete on the Darling Downs about the Stewards habit of holding race day inquiries after the last race instead of during the meeting. Many consider that while it might be okay for the stipes to rack up a bit of overtime through the […]
More than one punter was skeptical about the fall below in the 7th at Port Augusta on Sunday. Some even suggested that the jockey in the dark blue colors 3rd the fence might have jumped. So to dispel these suspicions we went and asked a couple of decent riders of our acquaintance their opinion. The […]
Kevin Seymour is all the above. Smart in this context because he entered three mares in the QLD Sun – an automatic qualifier for the G1 Rising Sun – and thus under the preferential barrier draw by age and sex conditions of the race secured the trio the inside barriers 1-2-3. Lucky because his other […]
Archie Re Schofield – you are bang on about the issue decided by the Supreme Court. Merits review (a fresh decision by the Panel not requiring a participant to demonstrate error) is clearly what was intended and is a better outcome for racing generally. Despite what QRIC might think, integrity bodies are enhanced by a […]
