Video of Favorite in R1 Townsville Rearing in the Gates – It’s Damning
This is the video of Heza Romeo rearing in the gates and almost flipping over. When you see it you realise why Racing QLD cut it out of the replay published on its website. It is very damning. This horse should never have been allowed to start without being vetted first. Those responsible need to […]
The Starter Needs a Good Kick in the Arse
Heza Romeo was backed in from $3.60 to start $2.45 favorite in race 1 at Cluden Park, Townsville today. It was never a chance. The replay starts too late to show it. but the horse reared in the gates was up in the air for 2-3 seconds. It wasn’t backed out of the gates to […]
Three Little Birds and a Creek
Archie Spotted at the Creek …… With the big wet… Albion Park tries shifting their usual day meeting to Tuesday night (it’s the 1st of April but this is not a Fool’s joke). There is an interesting little gathering in the dilapidated old stand … a former bookie (who is a fixture at every meeting, […]
Michael Poy and His Henchman Need to Be Criminally Prosecuted – The Crooked Bastards Deserve to Be in Jail
Now that Michael Poy and his wicked co-conspirators time in the racing tribunals has ended with Poy’s 13-year disqualification from the game, it’s time for them to be criminally prosecuted. In Victoria, the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) prohibits activity which may constitute match-fixing. These include: engaging in conduct that corrupts or would corrupt a betting outcome […]
Ben Yole is Like a Black-Hearted Churchill – Never Gives Up, and Never Gives In
Less than two weeks after Tasmanian Parliament heard testimony that he was involved in horse doping, race fixing, and animal welfare breaches, Ben Yole has made application for a stay of his three year sentence for mistreatment of his racing animals. Given the wonky state of some of the evidence that sunk him, Yole just […]
The Die is Cast For Zev Meredith – Let’s Hope He’s as Brave as That Old Trot Driver Caesar, and Makes it All the Way to Rome
A couple of months ago we told you about Zev Meredith, the junior driver with a pot problem who, when he realised the Stewards were doing drug testing at Alexandra Park, phoned in to tell them his car had broken down and he couldn’t get to the races, and then turned up at the track. […]
One For the Victorians Who are Afraid to Swim at Four Mile Beach
My racing mates from Victoria are all afraid to swim at Four Mile Beach when they come up to Port Douglas to visit. They’re all scared of crocodiles. The fools. It’s the sharks you need to worry about. We went down to the beach yesterday for our daily salt water swim, but it was closed. […]
An Obligation to Horse Racing
With race clubs in Australia increasingly seeking to secure non-racing revenue streams – predominantly through pubs and poker machines – this article from the US about the push and pull between cheap, easy income from the one armed bandits on one hand, and the expensive, difficult chore of holding race meetings on the other, is […]
A Man Cannot Serve Two Masters
We recently expressed our opinion that the AFL had erred by allowing A-grade referee Nick Foote to continue his side hustle as a racing tipster sponsored by corporate bookmaker Sportsbet. In light of this video (at bottom) published this week on the 2Units website featuring Foot (the clean shaven one) and his business partner Dave […]