Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
1. The Absent On-Course Farrier Why was there no farrier on the track at Dubbo for the 2nd round of heats on Saturday night? After all, shoeing issues are one of the major things that can arise before a start and cause it to be held up. When one of the horses in the heats […]
Lotamuscle NZ underwent pre and post race veterinary examinations at Bathurst last night after sustaining lacerations to its neck in float incident prior to the 1st round of Inter Dominion heats at Menangle as previously advised in HRNSW Integrity Release dated Friday 26thNovember 2021 and Stewards Report from that Menangle meeting. After examination it was […]
Can you imagine losing your son to the sea, and being thousands of miles away while they are searching for his body? Of course you can’t, and you never want to. No-one does. It’s impossible to imagine it, until it happens. Due to COVID restrictions Chris Caserta’s parents can’t get over the border to wait […]
What can you do but cry? The poor kid. He was only going for a swim on a warm night. I blame the Gold Coast Council. How many deaths now have there been at night on that beach? None of them from the local area. Those of us who lived around Brisbane and the Goldie […]
The red that you see inside the yellow circle in the picture is raw skin. The horse that you are looking at is Lotamuscle, the winner of the 4th heat of the Inter Dominion Trotting Championship run at Bathurst last night. Lotsamuscle is a high-priced import from New Zealand that was bought and transported here […]
Synthetic race tracks have been tried and failed before in the Sunshine State, on more than one occasion. No-one wants them, and even fewer want to race on them. That didn’t stop the gurus from Racing Queensland spending $9 million to build another one, success never having been a key performance indicator for government desk […]
The claimant alleges that during the race the defendant rode negligently or contrary to the rules of racing that caused his horse to fall. It is our case that the manner in which you rode at this point in the race was dangerous to the extreme Lord Edward Faulkes QC, representing the applicant, now wheelchair […]
So with two heats down and one to go the Inter Dominion final starts to sort itself out. McCarthy’s four – Expensive Ego, King of Swing, Alta Orlando and Spirit of St Louis – are in barring catastrophe. They will be driven in the finals by David Moran, Luke McCarthy, Jack Callaghan and John McCarthy. […]
Following out story yesterday we were contacted by an elder from the Edge Hill area in Cairns who suggests that we were only half right in our story about well known punter and commission agent turned First People’s rights activist Uncle Milty Doyle being from the Fraser Island People. The Edge Hill man, who […]
Prosecutors in the federal drug adulteration and misbranding case filed their sentencing recommendations for veterinarian Dr. Kristian Rhein late last week, and the documents revealed a couple of new details about the case they would have mounted against him. Rhein has entered a plea of guilty to a charge of drug adulteration and misbranding for […]
