Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hot off the press …. Under threat of the club being stripped of its license, the Albion Park CEO and alleged rapist Scott Steele has just an hour ago resigned from the role that he should have been sacked from a year ago. Former TV personality and politician Chris ‘Bomber’ Bombolas has been appointed to […]
No, the QLD Racing Integrity Commissioner is not a drug squad detective – he just likes to play dress up like one Almost every trainer in Queensland that is charged with a rule breach offence is called into a Stewards Inquiry and formally issued with the charge, and then an advisory notice is published to […]
The research conducted by the British Horseracing Authority into attitudes of various parties toward whip use for ‘encouragement’ – that is, being able to whip a horse to urge it to the line in a better finishing place – clearly shows the lines drawn on the issue, and I would argue puts a lie to […]
The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA), of which all major racing jurisdictions are members, has established broad good practice principles for the use of the whip in horseracing, which are the basis of international minimum standards for whip regulation around the world. The guidelines allow for each country to interpret and develop their own rules […]
See where the markers are above? There were 2 horses drawn off the front. And $82 shot on the inside, and the Ryan Hyrohorec trained and driven $2.10 favourite on the outside. The horse on the supposed 10m mark drawn inside Hryhorec’s horse was in the market too. Watch what happens. You would have to […]
Here you go, just like we told you. Except it’s not true. The kid wasn’t sick, her master just said she was. It’s not her fault, she didn’t do it. It’s the boss’s. The kid didn’t lie. They did. The Stipes can access records of who rode track work. I’d suggest that they do.
Colin McDowell is a trot man who is a Tiger through and through. Now that he has delivered Benji by first class courier back to Balmain he’s decided to take a new approach to naming his yearlings. Next year’s crop are going to be named after the club greats they say. Sirro, Benny, Gee-Jack, Ellery, […]
I doubt most normal people tuned into Sky Channel 2 this afternoon to watch the barrier draw for the Black’s a Fake take place out at the Meadowbrook Golf Club, about a 100km from the Albion Park track, but I was banged up in bed with COVID and bored witless so I did. Trot Steward […]
Dave ‘The Sultan’ Strehlau (above left) is one of the Two Units, with has mate Nick ‘Footy’ Foot (above right) being the other. These Two Units are a couple of these new age metrosexual types who are covered in tatts, wear t-shirts and shorts everywhere they go, even in winter, start off punting over a […]
It was a great night of harness racing at Albion Park on Saturday night, an absolute cracker. What a shame that the idiots who run the club had to go and spoil it. No-one other than us cares about the trots anymore. We’re just a cult these days, which is why we have to protect […]
