Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray should head to the rodeo circuit I reckon, for he sure is a cowboy. I’ve lost count of the number of suspensions for careless riding that McGillivray has incurred in recent years, but there are a a lot, enough to prompt me to write a story on the topic of the […]
Dan McGillivray has one of the worst careless riding records of any current jockey in Queensland. It’s so bad that I’ve given up counting the number of suspensions that McGillivray has received, or the amount of time that he has spent on the sidelines through suspension. This is the bloke we wrote about 2 months […]
You shouldn’t laugh about dangerous racing incidents, but what were the odds of Jamie Kah being involved in a near-accident while attempting to take a needle eye split on the rails in the same week that she was outed for 3 weeks for not taking one up the middle? If yesterday’s interference that lead to […]
Stewards have issued an all points missing person bulletin for jockey Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day following his mysterious disappearance from the Ewan racecourse in North QLD yesterday without fulfilling an engagement. Day arrived on course at the track in the largely abandoned former tin mining town on the banks of the Stockyard Creek prior to weigh-in […]
Watches and Me, with some gorgeous bird who’s married to a bald bloke who wears a funny hat, a media personality with more pairs of shoes in his cupboard than Imelda Marcos, and a fella who makes his living selling spoof sources by masturbating retired male pacers. I’m the good looking chap with the Group […]
The four persons it nominates for election as directors are: Shaun Brooks Jane Davis Hannah Doney Stephen O’Connor b. The three persons it appoints as directors are: Grant Jarrold Georgina Hunter Tim Sissons 5. The National Forum has had the opportunity to review these candidates for election under clause 14.6 of the HRNZ Constitution. 6. […]
How good are you? Can you tell us where on the map the following racecourses holding meetings today are. No cheating. Mt Magnet Barrabe Enngonia Twin Hills Pooncarie If you got them all right you’re a genius. Answers in next story.
Mt Magnet (pop. 576) Mid-west WA mining town approx. 575km north-east of Perth on the way to Paynesville? Way to where? Exactly. One of its open cut mines is named after an arsehol. It’s that sort of town. Barraba (pop. 1410) NSW gold rush era town in the New England area, between Upper Manilla and […]
A quintet of Aussie scientists including Dr Adam Cawley from the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory have cracked the Da Vinci Code. They’ve found a fast, cheap and accurate way to test swabs for EPO. Their test detects follistatin (FST), growth hormone 1 (GH1), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1), and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) too, which pretty […]
