Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ronald ‘RJ’ Johnson – the man I call Brown Rice – is the world’s leading weight stripper from lean frames. He just took almost 10 percent of the already incredibly lean jockey Ben Allen’s body weight off him in ten days and left him as strong as he was when the crash diet started, and […]
David Reynolds (above), alleged criminal on bail, posing for the official photographer at the Queensland Country Racing Awards in Emerald a month ago.
The Irish Coursing Cup is the world class equivalent of the Melbourne Cup in Australian horse racing. The same multi-millionaire’s try to win both races. Ireland’s richest and biggest race horse owners JP McManus and John Magnier own top class coursing dogs that they specifically breed, buy and set for this race each year. Hall […]
For a Reason has won the NSW Sire of the Year award. Why? What has For a Reason actually sired that is any good? How did he win the best stallion in NSW award? What does it say about Yirribbee stud? What does it say about the rest of the stallions in NSW? What does […]
As you will be aware, we wrote a couple of days ago about the massive disparities in sentence for the same offence between the 2 day suspension given to driver Brent Barclay, and the $300 fine handed down to Blair Orange. In that article we suggested that if the adjudicator in both cases had been […]
EVIDENCE: At the conclusion of Race 9 the Diamonds Day 30th April Mobile Pace a protest was lodged by Stipendiary Steward Mr V Munro alleging that under Rule 869(7)(b) that THE COBBLER (B Orange) went inside a pylon in the home straight therefore gaining an advantage. THE COBBLER was placed second in the race. Mr […]
Here is an ‘interview’ conducted with new Racing Victoria Integrity chief Brent Fisher. Fisher was formerly with Harness Racing Victoria, although little mention is made of that. He is also being personally sued for a fortune by the criminally persecuted and recently vindicated harness racing identity Nathan Jack, who since his return has won 2 […]
I write often about harness racing drivers ‘hocking’ – kicking their horses to make them run faster – for I consider it a cruel and barbaric practice, and one that must be stamped out by stomping down hard on drivers who do it. Would you run out onto the oval and kick your kid in […]
What has happened on the turn entering the home straight in the Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prix is nothing short of disgraceful. Chris Angove and his family had spent more than three decades getting their trotter Sundon’s Courage to this race. They’d bred him themselves, and they had bred his mother and his grandmother […]
Taranaki Racing run the racetrack at New Plymouth on New Zealand’s north island, a picturesque course in the shadows of the mighty Mt Taranaki (formerly Mt Egmont), and the lifetime home ground of the great Rough Habit, an 11 time Group 1 winner who was a hero across the ditch, particularly in Queensland where he […]
