Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Unlike in New South Wales, where jockeys like Tommy Berry are allowed to get away with breaching the whip rule at almost every meeting they ride, and not receive a punishment, the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board officials are getting tough on animal abuse. Good on them too. These below are the punishments handed down […]
Queensland’s thoroughbred Chief Steward Peter Chadwick doesn’t seem to know which way is up. The official Steward’s Report states clearly that jockey Nathan Day was disqualified for 9 months in relation to the ‘incident’ that occurred at Callaghan Park involving the Clerk of the Scales. Disqualification means that Day cannot participate in the racing industry […]
Dual code superstar John ‘JC’ Catton won the $500 000 QTIS Jewel at the Gold Coast on Saturday with his sensational two-year-old filly She’ssgottheboom. Reports are that a huge night was had that carried on well into Sunday morning. At lunchtime the very next day JC, who has clearly got the constitution of an Ox, […]
The CEO of Harness Racing NSW Mr John Dumesny (pictured above) has been in touch early this morning to advise that the control body certainly does not condone or support the types of sexualised post that we highlighted overnight as appearing on the Wagga Harness Club’s Facebook page. Mr Dumesny says that he suspects that […]
What you are seeing in the picture at the top is the start of the $100 000 Tasmania Cup run at Hobart on Saturday night. You would never know it looking at this, but there were actually 9 horses drawn on the front line mark from the stand. Why then is that horse in the […]
See this market? It is Sportsbet’s odds on a race at Redcliffe yesterday. The basics of a bookie’s market is that betting to odds that when totalled together equal 100% is a ‘true’ market reflective of each horse’s nominal percentage chance of winning the race. When a market is framed at odds that add up […]
A pacer named Bobsled Boy had twelve starts for experienced provincial trot trainer Kevin Weidenbach between 18 November 2021 and 16 February 2022. It didn’t win or run a place in any of them. The horse’s average beaten margin across them all was about 30 metres a race. It gets transferred to Alex Ashwood and […]
These clerical errors just keep on happening under Chief Steward (Darling Downs) Clayton ‘Crayons’ Warren’s watch. Yesterday we told you about the four mistakes at Toowoomba on Saturday night. Today we tell you about the two at Chinchilla on Monday, the very next meeting held in the district. Crayons has got the race to race […]
I doubt that we are going to very popular in South Australia at the moment, for since we published our story yesterday about the horses that ran under the wrong numbers at Globe Derby without the Stewards noticing, they have now noticed. The official Stewards comments on the race have been changed. Suddenly the trainers […]
