Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The CEO of TASracing Paul Eriksson arrived in the Apple Isle three years ago with much fanfare. Eriksson was going to be the saviour of Tassie racing, we were told. He was going to fix the broken down tracks, and fix the finances while he was at it. He was going to restore integrity to […]
One of Queensland’s prominent racing and construction identities is defending allegations from companies associated with his sister that he deliberately shortchanged the Tax Office almost $15 million by setting up labour hire firms to take the fall. Helga Bennett is a director of two labour hire firms suing her older brother, Gerhardt “Hoss” Heinrich, and […]
Brisbane has been smashed by rain and floods over the past week. What’s new? It always has been. People just forget. I was a kid in 1974 sitting on my grandpa’s knee at the top of the second level stairs, and the water was up to my ankles. Those like me who grew in the […]
Here are a few sneaky winners for you at Menangle today. Race 1 – Son of Patrick Has ten lengths on these. The price isn’t much, but it is better than bank interest. Leads and wins. Race 3 – Vatican Hill Kiwi import who had had 2 starts here. Galloped the first time, got beaten […]
Mark Buckingham, the Victorian trainer with an outstanding positive swab to Levaimsole in the NSW jurisdiction, was fined a paltry $2500 for administering a steroid to a weanling in September or October of 2020. I wrote a story critical of the light penalty, but I missed something that an eagle eyed expert reader didn’t. The […]
Has there ever been a greater Australian sporting hero than Ash Barty? No, forget that. Has there ever been a greater Australian? I don’t think so. We are one, but we are many. Ash Barty is us all. Even Yeah Good says so. And that’s saying something.
Bob Hawke was elected as PM when I was 14. The silver budgie was my parent’s hero, and I thought he was a genius. He fooled us all. Hawke was a Karmichael Hunt. His wife meant nothing, his kids meant nothing, his party meant nothing, his promises meant nothing, we the people of Australia meant […]
Do you remember the story we told you last week about ‘Smoking’ Joe Bajada, the bowler owner of Better Eclipse, the winner of the Group 1 Chariots of Fire at Menangle? Well look at what the HRV stewards have had to say about Smoking Joe today. I wonder if Harness Racing NSW will put a […]
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 […]
