Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Eddie McGuire is blowing up big time about Peter V’Landys outsmarting the AFL by scoring a broadcast deal for the NRL that puts the aerial ping boys contract in the shade. V’Landys played them all off a break, Eddie says. Of course he did. It is called the art of negotiation, and no-one anywhere is […]
This is Mildura race 1. Take a look at the driver of the leader, Corey Johnson. Watch how he extends his whip out way wide of the cart. These below are rules 156 (6), (7) and (8). (6) A whip shall not be used so as to obstruct, strike or endanger another driver or horse. […]
Ottavio Galetta, a hugely successful owner in both horse codes, has passed away age 82. Galetta, an immigrant from Calabria at a young age, first came to prominence as the owner of the great pacer Don’t Retreat, the 1976 Australian Harness Horse of the Year. He later became the owner of the dual Group 1 […]
The APG are an standardbred auction house on a deep and slippery slide. Their CEO has been stood down after sexual harassment claims were made against him. A board member has left the building after similar claims were made against them. The outfit is so cash strapped that it has had t0 abandon live sales […]
In a case that has taken an inordinate amount of time to hear, Racing NSW Stewards on Friday disqualified Gosford trainer Greg McFarlane for 2 years and 6 months after his horse Bremel threw a positive swab to EPO in an out of competition test conducted in February 2025. After many delays the trainer finally […]
Archie, Billy and other trainers should be overjoyed about Tanya Parry turning up with her 31 starters for the Isa’s big Thursday Rodeo Race Meeting . Take her horses out and you’re left with 2 × 2 horse races, 2 × 3 horse races , a 4 horse race and a 5 horse race. Yep, […]
Julia Creek trainer Tanya Parry turned out 31 of the 50 runners at yesterday’s Mt Isa race meeting, but her sheer weight of numbers didn’t translate to much success. The only rwo winner on the card that she trained was in the first race, in which she had every horse in the field, and the […]
The President of the Forbes Jockey Club, one Randal Grayson, has been disqualified for 9 months by Racing NSW Stewards for allowing a mare that he owned named Spectrum’s image to starve near to death. Spectrum’s Image was discovered by a vet lying prone on the ground in an emaciated state a body condition score […]
The news filtering out of the Riverina is that following drug testing conducted at a recent Wagga trot meeting, two of the region’s leading drivers have thrown personal positive swabs to banned and illegal substances. Cocaine and methamphetamine (ice) are said to the drugs in question. Both men will be charged under the rules, and […]
Queensland’s once greatest trainer Ben Currie is back, as of today. The man we call the Toowo0mba Tornado has won his QCAT appeal against the QRIC decision to refuse him a stable hand license. How the regulator ever came to that decision based on the Currie no fault ruling in the End Assembly case we […]
