Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nathan Jack, Mark Pitt and Lisa Bartley were stood down from racing and charged with a criminal offence when accused of deliberately falsifying a stable return to conceal the true trainer details of a horse at Cobram. Matt Brinsdon did exactly the same thing in New Zealand last month, and has escaped with nothing but […]
You would have to be kidding wouldn’t you? The pacer with the form you see above has just won a race at Redcliffe by more than sixty metres, in a mile rate of 1.56.0. That’s preposterous. Im Plain Jane’s average over it’s past 10 starts has been 2.02.6. It has just run almost 100 metres […]
Question Why does the auction house Australian Pacing Gold (APG) own a two-year-pacer named Captain Ravishing that is competing in races, and won at Melton on Tuesday? Question What happened to $80 000 sale of the horse to buyer A. Portelli at last year’s APG Sydney yearling sales? Question If the sale fell through, why […]
There is a rumour floating around the Australian tracks that a leading NZ training combination that has barns on both islands has thrown a positive swab to EPO. If true, it will rock NZ racing to its foundations, and throw into doubt some of the biggest wins in the country this year. And no, it […]
See this pacer Mach Quillan in the photo above, the one in race 9 at Geraldine that was backed from $9.00 into $3.20 on the NZ TAB fixed price, and plunged similarly if not more with the TAB and the corporates in Australia? It won by four and a half lengths, under triple wraps. The […]
I wonder what JT thinks about naming a big race after the family who stole the Rockhampton people’s land, and kept black slaves? I wonder what GI thinks? Or Hodgo? I suspect that they all think the same. Why don’t we name the next race the Invasion Day Stakes? Or perhaps even the Cullin-la-ringo Massacre […]
I wonder what happened to the black boy? I wonder what his name was? I wonder how old he was? I wonder if he had sisters and brothers? I wonder why the Archer’s stole him as a slave? I wonder why they didn’t pay him? I wonder why they didn’t take a white boy? I […]
Dear Bentleys I note with huge disappointment that your firm has become a naming sponsor of a new horse race at Rockhampton named the Archer. I am the author of a popular racing website, and have become aware that the family that the race is named after were involved in the dispossession of indigenous Australians […]
Uncle Milty was up in Port Douglas yesterday. He parked his bike with the I Love Straddie sticker on Macrossan Street, outside the entrance to the Nautilus restaurant. People said he was here to meet with Uncle Errol from Edge Hill about the Captain Cook statue takedown campaign, but it’s not true. The great man […]
The great problem with modern racing administrators is that they don’t know Australian history, or when it comes to black history – the real history of our land – they seek to deny it anyway. Those who run racing glorify black dispossession, murder and slavery instead. The more things change, the more they stay the […]
