Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s first strike to Australia as Mark Zahra and the OTI owned Docklands win the opening race at Royal Ascot the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes. It was a great win too, and a brilliant ride. Docklands missed the start but Zahra didn’t panic. He just tucked it up behind the leading pack and allowed […]
Something seems to be afoot in the Nick Walsh camp. His best galloper Hell was yesterday transferred into the care of the horse basher and doper trainer Tom Smith. Walsh’s recent winner Daimyo was too. Both horses have different connections so it’s unlikely to be due to an ownership dispute. More likely it has to […]
We have recently highlighted a number of curious (to say the least) drives by leading QLD reinsman Peter McMullen, and here in race 6 at Albion Park yesterday is another one. McMullen is driving the Kiwi import La Miki, who is having its first start in Australia and has blown in the betting from $2.40 […]
Watch the driver of the leader in the inside Ryan Bell. See what he does to the horse behind him. Whack! Take that son! I suspect Mr Bell may be going for an unplanned holiday in the morning. Head butting horses just isn’t on.
Watch this replay of race 5 at the Maitland dogs last night. This is what happens when your caller is broadcasting the race from their lounge room or the studio. The beauty of remote calling. Ain’t Gillon McLachlan’s cost cuts grand?
They were unable to determine how the product entered the horse’s system. However, Meloxicam could be administered orally. BESIDE ME might have been an unfortunate and vulnerable target. She was a first-starter in a maiden race, paying $1.50 on the tote, by a leading sire in DOWNBYTHESEASIDE and out of a $1.4 million stakes-winning mare […]
Dr Andrew Grierson (pictured) is the HRNZ Chief Veterinarian. How he can possibly hold that role given the demonstrable conflict with his personal business interests is a question that needs to be answered, both by HRNZ and by the Racing Integrity Board, which role it is to maintain and uphold the integrity of the sport. […]
The NZ Racing Integrity Board adjudicator’s decision to fine trainer Cran Dalgety just $5750 for what was his eighth positive swab offence is quite frankly baffling, and so is the rationale for it. His star mare Beside Me threw a confirmed positive to the potent anti-inflammatory painkiller Meloxicam at the Nelson race meeting in January. […]
Team Yole and the Fords have more appeals going at the moment that the Surf Life Savers. Here is the current status of where their matters are at. Ben Yole – Appeal against the decision of the Independent Stewards Panel on 30 January 2025 – Disqualification of his licence for a period of 3 years […]
Last night for the second time in a matter of months the Saturday night metropolitan meeting at Globe Derby was cancelled due to the state of the track. What a circus it was too. Trainers had travelled from far and wide to race at the meeting, with Emma Stewart bringing a horse from Victoria, and […]
