Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have written many times about Masterati, the galloper that while in the ‘care’ of trainer Grant Young in Oakbank, SA was Australia’s most overworked horse. Young used to race the poor thing every week, week in week out, and sometimes even 2 or 3 times a week, all to juice the lemon and win […]
As you can see from the Stewards report above driver Michael A. Smith hocked Celestial Trekker – kicked him hard up the arse – multiple times in the preliminary to race 7 at Globe Derby on Saturday night. It appeared pretty clear to me – and let me be clear this is simply my opinion […]
On Sunday night at Devonport trainer Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole set a world record that is unlikely to ever be beaten for as long as the sphere spins like a top on its axis. 8 runners stood down from future competition in the space of just 5 races. If you lined them up by their aggregate […]
Racing horses on the anti-inflammatory painkiller Phenylbutazone – commonly known as Bute – is both a serious breach of the racing rules, and highly dangerous. In 2002 Damien Oliver’s brother Jason was killed in tragic circumstances after a horse racing on Bute in a trial snapped its leg and collapsed under him. The horse’s trainer […]
The Sydney Morning Herald has published a lead story today claiming that greyhound trainers in NSW are being allowed to get away without penalty for ‘pin firing’ – pressing thermal heat into the leg of a greyhound to cause scar tissue around the tendons and ligaments of the leg to help heal injuries – their […]
Darrel Graham Darrel Graham is a 53-year-old trot trainer, driver and owner who has been involved in the sport as a licensee since his teens, which was in the 1980’s. In all of that time D. Graham has incurred a single minor substance rule breach, which was acknowledged as an error based on vets advice, […]
Nick Kyrgios is a real bad loser, even though it’s usually himself who beats him. The QRIC are real bad losers too. When Trent Akers of Racenet contacted them over the weekend for comment on the decision in the Darrel Graham case, in which they went down in a screaming heap, this was their reply: […]
When we were kids everyone dreamed of riding flying horses. Times have changed. No-one wanted to ride Benchi Pegasus at Julia Creek on Saturday. They had to scratch him from three races on the same day for want of a jockey, which surely must be some sort of record. I guess when it is hard […]
It is not very often that you see a New Zealand Group 1 winner race a US import in a rating 55-65 class race at Cranbourne on a Sunday afternoon, but we did yesterday. Smooth Deal won the Group 1 Young Guns at Auckland as a two-year-old when trained by Purdon and Rasmussen. In that […]
Yesterday morning we published a story about Altrenogest / Regumate / Readyserve / Ovumate/ Trendione/ Epitrenbolone/ Steroids – all the same horse, different jockey – and then guess what happens just hours later? A mare who had been banned from racing for 12 months after having thrown a positive swab to the stuff comes out […]
