Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Science 101. Mammals breathe by turning air into energy. Oxygen is our energy, just petrol is a car’s. We breathe air into the body via the mouth and nose, and it goes through the lungs down to the blood. The red cells in your blood grab the air and suck the pure oxygen (O2) out. […]
How does the reserve fuel tank in the horse’s spleen work? The spleen is like a sponge stuck in between other organs. In a human this sponge’s job is simply to filter waste, sort of the oil filter on your car; however in horses it serves the additional role of being the extra fuel tank. […]
How do you increase the number of red blood cells that are stored in a horse’s spleen? You use blood builders. These can be a variety of things, on their own or – more usually – used in combination. Sodium bicarbonate – a milkshake – is the traditional way, but in the modern era that […]
The bloke in the video above is leading WA trainer Michael Young. Listen to him as he tells the harness media and the public that his 2 runners won’t be trying in their races at Pinjarra on Monday night. Lovely stuff isn’t it? Fortunately for punters who ignored him or didn’t hear this interview, Young […]
The wheels seem to have spun off old mate Bodine ‘BoBo’ Bailey’s wagon ever since he and his cocaine loving lawyer Corey ‘CeeCee’ Cullen threatened to sue us for a quarter of a million dollars unless we paid then 10 grand for nothing, and then didn’t follow through when we asked them for more information […]
Out peeps in the legal fraternity tell us than Jason Hoopert got done for ‘driving’ pissed over the general limit, but not over the middle limit, and for driving without a license. The funny thing is that we are told that the fool wasn’t driving a car, he was riding an e-scooter. What an absolute […]
Further to our earlier story about jigger man Todd Austin’s new bowler Terry Hall, we are told that the new kid in town almost collected and cleaned up a somewhat large – as in front rower sized – former trainer’s much loved wife while working his horses in the dark on the Barcaldine track in […]
Mt Isa jockey Jason Hoopert has never met me, nor me him, but it is clear that he doesn’t like me very much. And given the way that he takes pictures of female jockeys arses, ditto. There is no Place for Pervs at the Track Karma is a funny girl. Jason Hoopert was in the […]
Dear QRIC I see your advert for a Senior Steward, and note that it is listed under the occupational classification of Journalism and Writing. Although I myself never knew that senior racing integrity roles were designed for racing writers, given recent events that demonstrate that your current incumbents in the job don’t know what day […]
It is by now well known that an agreement has been struck between Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club (ATC) to allow Morgan Kelly – the man that Peter V’Landys and co wanted to appoint as administrator of the race club, and which the ATC opposed and rejected – to undertake an independent review […]
