Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What a vintage edition of the New Zealand Trotting Cup this year’s great race on the 2nd Tuesday in Novemer truly promises to be, one of the best ever. Australia’s star pacer Leap To Fame promises to be there, and will be the one they all have to beat, if such a thing is actually […]
This is the low camera shot of the finish of race 2 at Mt Gambier yesterday. How do you reckon they finished? Inside 1st, middle 2nd, outside 3rd? Wrong. Try again from the replay. The inside? Wrong again. The angle at Mt Gambier is a shocker. It was a dead heat inside and outside, with […]
12 June 2024 Cocaine users are dying in their 30s from heart disease usually only seen in pensioners, as deaths linked to the drug surge by 20 per cent. A leading drug researcher has issued a stark warning to users, saying that cocaine’s health effects are as bad as using ice. Cocaine sold on Australia’s […]
On Monday we published a story titled Jigger Me Timber – Is It True That … In this story we posed the questions about whether it was true that …. a tool of a trainer turned up at his local track to work his horse the other day accompanied by a work rider who doubles […]
Lui Trotta (pictured above) has won his appeal against a 14 month disqualification imposed on him for both publicly abusing his young driver Bernadette Page, and telling the starter who had conveyed to him a direction to attend the Stewards room that the Stewards “could go and get fucked”. Well he has sort of won […]
Have a look at the replay of the start of race 6 at Lanceston trots on Saturday night. Did you see what I saw? The horse on the outside All For Dave breaks the tape and gets a flying start. Watch it again in slow-motion. It leaves no doubt. The starter Adam Emery didn’t release […]
How hard is it to read the number on a ball drawn out of a barrel? When it comes to QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams, the answer is obviously too hard. What you see above and below are extracts from the official barrier draw for the Stradbroke Handicap conducted last night outdoors in the chill […]
In shades of the terrible calamity in the 2011 Grand Annual Steeple at Warrnambool, history has repeated itself at the rodeo meeting in the USA. Let’s just hope the person who got gored and flipped is okay. The bull is expected to start favorite in next year’s Brierley Steeple.
Yesterday a feel good story about former QLD heavyweight apprentice jockey Nick Keal’s transition to the training ranks featured on the Racing QLD website. I bet the writer of the piece wished it hadn’t now. Within mere hours after the story was published, Keal was locked up in a watchhouse cell, where he spent an […]
Levamisole is a non-approved substance that metabolises in a horses system to become a drug called Aminorex. Aminorex is a Schedule 1 banned narcotic in the USA. It is a powerful stimulant that lies on the spectrum somewhere between dextroamphetamine and methaphetamine (aka Ice) in potency and effect. The Kiwi authorities announced 15 years ago […]
