Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Auckland Trotting Club’s (ATC) long-running dispute with its former TAB Manager Graham Payne has come to an end, for now anyway, after the club lost its appeal seeking to overturn an earlier judgement that it had to honor its contract with the long-serving employee and pay him the estimated $500 000 it owes him […]
This is what is reported in the Auckland Trotting Club annual report. The (now former) staff member involved in a dispute with the club is Graeme Payne, in the case that we have written at length about recently. The ATC claim they ‘do not consider there to be any expected cash outflow’ from the decision […]
It’s bright and early on Monday morning after the Weetwood meeting, and the minutes earlier bustling Clifford Park trackwork has suddenly turned into a ghost town. The Stewards have arrived bearing drug test kits they intend to use to take samples from licensed workers. When they showed up people scattered in every direction, many of […]
QLD Derby winner Major Hot was sent out as the heavily backed favorite in the 1st race at Menangle on Saturday night. The punters who backed the horse were robbed. Major Hot loomed up to go to the lead on the turn with a lap to go and wouldn’t have been beaten if he had […]
Keepcrackingjokes is a 6yo pacer trained (on paper) by Maryanne Laffan, driven by her partner Steven Matson, and owned by Matson’s daughter Dellareece. On Tuesday night the horse turned out to race in an NR up to 34 affair at Albury, the track where it had last won a race fifteen starts back in December […]
Racing NSW’s Integrity Department is urging all industry participants to exercise caution if approached by an individual seeking to purchase shares in a horse if that person goes by the following details: Name: Terrence Green – email: coffeehouse1566@gmail.com Name: Terry Green – email: Terrence.green@hotmail.com Name: Joseph Green – email: coffeehouse1455@gmail.com Name: Trevor Schodel – email: […]
No-one is saying that the VICBRED scheme has been a raging success. Stallion numbers in Victoria are down by more than a third in the past 5 years. Service numbers have dropped by almost a third in the same period. Foal numbers are 22% less than they were in 2019. By every metric the scheme […]
The Brisbane Racing Club has reported a profit of $1.75 million for the 2023/24 financial year. This figure is correct, but it has been artificially boosted by $6.3 million of revenue being recorded which doesn’t in a material sense exist. The $6.3 million is the amount that the club borrowed from Racing QLD to build […]
In a week in which the hapless Harness Racing Victoria have announced the first of what are certain to be several tranches of cuts to prizemoney and bonuses that will devastate the sport in the State, we get a vivid illustration of what ails the sport by the fields for the feature age group races […]
The protest decision in race 3 at Menangle on Saturday night was an interesting one. The driver of the 2nd horse Promiseland protested against the winner Foxy Dada under rule 155, on the grounds that it raced roughly and broke gait prior to the finish therefore gaining an unfair advantage. Under the old rule 155A Foxy […]
