Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I am asking for the opportunity to address the board on this matter with my nominated trainers Aswell, so the board can get their opinion on this matter. In Absence of agreement of that request, I will consider removing my interest from New South Wales . Could you please advise the chairman and the Board. […]
The mail from over the ditch is that Ben Yole was not the only trainer overworking his employees and instructing them to inject runners on race day. A certain leading stable based at sand land in Woodend Beach was said to be doing it too, and still is. We don’t know what was in Yole’s […]
A runner turned in the stalls and got loose as the starter let them go in this race in Argentina. It took off in the other direction back toward the oncoming field. Look what happened. Disaster averted. There but for the skill of the riders and the grace of god they go.
If Darwin racing man Mark Gillam made his living as a tipster he’s be eating dry bread crusts for dinner. Gillam tipped Bear Story an unbeatable certainty in the Darwin Cup on Monday, saying on times it had worked better than any horse he’d ever timed. You’d think by his age though he would have […]
Believe it when you see it, but according to the latest update to the Gold Cost Turf Club calendar, the long awaited return to racing on the turf is set down for Pink Ribbon day on the 21st of September. That first meeting back on the green stuff (if it happens) will be followed by […]
Steve O’Dea, one of the nice guys of racing departs The O’Dea and Hoysted training partnership is over. There is no scandalous story or fallout or anything like that we are told. Steve O’Dea just wanted to step away and take a break from the hustle and bustle and the 24/7 demands of running a […]
The defense lawyer for Ben Yole’s float driver in the terrible accident last year that left 2 young stable workers with permanent injuries has told the court that his client and the 4 other Yole employees in the car towing the float had worked from 7.30am on the day before the crash through to 1.45am […]
By Jessica Moran A 21-year-old former stable hand who crashed an unregistered and overloaded horse float last year has been sentenced to ten weeks’ jail, wholly suspended. Lily Blundstone was driving a white ute that was towing a loaded horse float at about 1:45am on January 30 last year, when it crashed on the Batman […]
David ‘Layoff’ McLauchlan is the Melbourne rails bookie who did a stack betting against the credit punter David Ng and then unsuccessfully taking him to court trying to get Ng to pay his tick. In the process McLauchlan set a losing precedent that left both himself and other bookies across Victoria open to prosecution for […]
53.40% CLAYTON TONKIN 40.60% AARON BAIN 38.67% EMMA STEWART 37.31% RYAN HYRHOREC 32.64% GARY HALL SR 30.72% MARGARET LEE 29.62% GREG AND SKYE BOND 27.10% JASON GRIMSON 26.00% SEATON GRIMA
