Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Wanderson D’Avila is a jockey. He is also a grub. D’Avila mistreated his wonderful wife, the horse trainer Sharlee, and being the strong women she is, she gave him the punt. The Queensland racing community know what’s right and wrong – or most of them anyway: I don’t speak for On The Bit Racing – […]
Some old, ugly ex-boxer bastard in a Spiderman hat that his grandson picked for him, cuddling his mates Matt and JC’s dog Little Byrnes New Zealand has woken up to what Australians should have years earlier. That animal activists who oppose greyhound racing have no place on the board of a greyhound racing health and […]
These are the owners of pacers trained by animal abuser Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole that raced at Launceston on Sunday the 27th of March 2022. They should all be ashamed of themselves. Aaron Bain South Australian horse trainer, businessman and harness racing media personality. In partnership with Summit Bloodstock as Australia’s leading owner. Andrew Stuart Rangiora […]
We have been writing for some time now about the terrible standard of Stewarding in Central Queensland since Ben Cooke assumed the Chief Steward role in December last year, and we have been doing so not because we hold any beef against the chief – we don’t – but simply because what we are saying […]
Question: What the hell is going on in South Australian harness racing? Answer: Everything. It’s a free for all, and I don’t mean the class of the race. Now they are even allowing drivers to turn around and punch rival runners in the head. The reinsman you see in the picture with his fist cocked […]
Nevesh Ramdhani is the best track manager in Australia, bar none, so the Gold Coast Turf Club securing his services is the greatest coup for Queensland racing since Cole Diesel won the Caulfied Cup. He has the respect of everyone: jockeys, trainers, racing administrators, PVL, and most of all the hardest mob to please, us, the […]
Not a day goes by when there isn’t a hot race at Globe Derby, so the only surprise about there being another one on Monday would have been if there wasn’t. That’s what terribly low prize money and the need for cash to feed your horses does to a sport. Monday’s red hot one was […]
There has been some criticism of mature age apprentice Jade Doolan’s vigour, or lack thereof, on the fast blowing in the betting second favourite Bernie’s Tiger in the 2nd race at Mackay on Tuesday, but I have to say I beg to differ. Jade Doolan is just a rookie at the riding game, who up […]
Abandoned race meetings in South East Queensland could be a thing of the past as Racing Queensland looks to implement an all-weather track procedure from October. The recent construction of a Polytrack circuit at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club would allow abandoned turf meetings in SEQ to be transferred to the synthetic “after considering the […]
A greyhound training “bullring” where dogs were baited with live rabbits was so popular trainers would have to wait in line to set their dogs loose, a court has heard. Western Sydney greyhound owner Todd Fear has told an inquiry into NSW greyhound racing he went about 20 times to a property where trainer Bruce Carr […]
