Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just a couple of weeks ago the Victorian Racing Tribunal upheld a 3-week suspension the Stewards gave small-time driver Michelle Wight for persisting to race three-wide on a $26 outsider, when there was no chance of her getting in. https://content.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/VRT-Decision-Michelle-Wight-11-July-2024.docx If that decision is the baseline, then Steve Turnbull should be given 3 months for […]
Back in the day missed, slipped or dead foals were called exactly that. Not anymore though. Now they’re called non-lives. How can we avoid being one of them? The answer would be worth trillions.
Archie After reading with interest your recent articles about horses crossing the marker pegs, I would like to suggest that we should adopt the US rules about the issue. These American rules take the subjectivity out of it in nearly all instances. While we’re at it we should use their relegation rule for interference as […]
Credit – Picture by Ian Currie Francesca Cumani’s ex-husband, former Australian polo captain Rob Archibald, obviously has a thing for slim, will0wy, posh English brunettes. How else do you explain his bouncing back from being dumped by Cumani by hooking up with Annabel Neesham? Archibald and Neesham have just announced they are entering into a […]
Harness Racing Victoria’s announcement yesterday that it is immediately slashing prizemoney for the Breeders Crown Series has rocked harness racing participants, with the series being decimated by direct cut in stakes for the 2 and 3-year-old finals of $705 000 or 64.35%, down from $1.15 million to $410 00. These prizemoney reductions imperil the Group […]
PACING 1. 2yo Colts & Geldings Final Was $250 000 Now $80 000 Reduction= $170 000 2. 2yo Fillies Final WAS – $250 000 NOW – $80 000 Reduction = $170 000 3. 3yo Colts & Geldings Final Was $150 000 Now $60 000 Reduction = $90 000 4. 3yo Fillies Final WAS $150 000 […]
BY Katie Bice and Melissa Cunningham A young mum who was left a paraplegic when she was crushed by a large tree branch at Flemington Racecourse has settled a multimillion-dollar claim against the Victoria Racing Club. The case was settled on the eve of a trial at the Supreme Court after days of legal argument, with the […]
It is a strange protest decision this one. Kaleb Williams, the driver of the horse in the yellow and brown, definitely shifts inside two marker pegs in the home straight and runs over a third. That much is confirmed by the driver being fined $100 for breaching the rule. 163. (1) A driver shall not […]
The Dwayne Dunn case against Racing Victoria is an interesting one. As most know Dunn was badly injured in an incident at the start of a race at Moonee Valley when his horse reared as the gates opened and propelled his head into the top of the barrier stalls. It was an injury that cost […]
For the jockeys to stop work during the trials today to carry on this meeting, it is just so exceptionally disappointing … I just felt it showed very little care or understanding of the rest of the industry, we (trainers) are annoyed and disappointed at the situation which could have been handled outside of these […]
