Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Victorian trainer Rhonda Mangan was on Facebook yesterday bemoaning the fact that owners won’t give her horses even though she sends out updates on their horses 2-3 times a week, saying that instead they prefer to send their gallopers to big trainers whose communication is nowhere near as good. That’s Mangan’s story and she is […]
Anyone watching the last race at Mackay on Thursday afternoon could see that something catastrophic had happened to the Phillip Pengelly trained Thunder Mania, which was pulled up at around the 700m mark after clearly going amiss. The horse had been sweating up like a pig before the race, which was unusual for it (my […]
Fresh off yet another six winner weekend, Australia’s most beloved nude tipster Dr Georgia Whiting PhD is back to steer punters in the right direction at the Valley today. The Doc’s best bet is race 5 number 3 ANGEL CAPITAL. Her each way special is race 4 number 3 MISS TARZY. As they say in […]
This website has been much criticized by supporters of Darren Weir for our firm and oft repeated position that the trainer was guilty of a monstrous act that was deserving of a severe penalty, up to and including being warned off for life. Unlike most of our critic we had seen the footage of Darren […]
We learned this week of the disgraceful actions of former licensed NSW stable hand Samantha Murphy, who neglected a number of retired racehorses in her care so badly that they died, and then left their putrefied corpses lying out in a 120 acre paddock to rot. The horses had been cast into the paddock and […]
Noel ‘King’ Callow’s appeal against his ten month disqualification for conduct related offences related to the “Darwin Tapes” recordings that went viral on social media will be heard next Friday at9.30am. We spoke to the King in the aftermath of the recordings coming to public attention and can confirm that Callow accepted full responsibility for […]
The two trackwork riders who submitted doctored health assessment reports in 3 different years have lost their appeal against their nine month disqualifications. Lane Sharrock and Jeff McKay were separately charged with engaging in any dishonest, corrupt, fraudulent, improper or dishonourable action or practice in connection with racing; with McKay also being charged Neither man […]
Henare’s letter about the quality of the Eureka field, and how the total collective prizemoney of the runners in the race was only $2.7 million, got us thinking about what the field for an elite Kiwi bred-only slot race for three and four-year-old pacers might look like, and how much they would have earned. To […]
Archie, Archie, Archie Love your work but I can’t believe a man of your undoubted wisdom would use the Eureka field to indicate anything other than, as you rightly point out, the concept has been a total failure to promote local stallions. Despite all the hype from HRA’s mouthpiece Adam Ant & co the Eureka […]
Story by Julian Linden, Daily Telegraph Ben Sarina, a lifelong trotting driver battling mental health demons after being booted out of the sport during the infamous ‘green-light scandal’, is again pleading with NSW harness racing authorities to give him a second chance after a supreme court judge ruled the body overstepped its powers by banning […]
