Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well not really. But it is highly likely that the Big O would have been if the race had been run under the modern rules. Darren Beadman went berserk with the whip on the great horse, hitting him by my count 19 times prior to the 100 meter mark, which these days would get a […]
Victorian trainer Paul Tonkin had the misfortune of one of his horses throwing a positive swab in NSW to the powerful painkiller Tapentadol. Tonkin – who is no relation to Clayon or Peter Tonkin: same name, different family – pleaded guilty to the charge, was a first time offender, and the positive was accepted to […]
Reports just in are that jockey Amy Graham has copped a 4 month holiday for conduct bringing racing into disrepute over the cocaine snorting video that recently came to light. We are told that apprentice Sophie Wilcox has been given a 3 month spell for lying to the Stewards over the matter/. Jockey Casey Waddell […]
Bulls**t. You have no idea what you are talking about, the SBSW sons and SL are the most prominent sires in the US but it’s not because a “saturation” of Art Major and BD mares because there isn’t a saturation of those mares in the US, most of the BDs are in Canada where he […]
Aa the old champs Bettors Delight and Art Major begin to fade away into memories and the history books, the new generation of top sires has emerged and is pretty clear. Captain Treacherous, Downbytheseaside, Huntsville, Sweet Lou are certainties, and either Cattlewash or Papi Rob Hanover – both new sires performing spectacularly in the age […]
What you see above is the trainer’s receipt for a swab sample taken from their horse at a NSW harness race meeting on the 22nd of May 2025. The usual practice in most States with swabs is that they are either personally delivered or couriered to the relevant testing laboratory after the conclusion of the […]
Will the last one out please turn off the lights and lock the door? Rumors are floating out of Bowen Hills that Entain will be announcing a wave of redundancies in the coming weeks. The exact numbers of employees who will lose their jobs is not known, but sources inside the company describe the reductions […]
We were right about Luke McCarthy being the best trainer in Australia weren’t we? Kingman’s outstanding victory in the NZ Cup yesterday proved that. It might even have proven that Luke is the best trainer in the Dominion too. What McCarthy has done with this horse is simply incredible. He was getting beaten by Some […]
Remember the Gambler? Kenny Rogers? The glass pipe jockey who last year copped his fifth disqualification for throwing personal positive swabs, all bar one of them to meth or ice? You know Kenny, the big talker non-walker who made cowardly threats against our person after we wrote a story about him, then wouldn’t answer the […]
