Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Way back to before he even had his first start we have been telling people that the Kiwi pacer Merlin was a champion, and by now most people agree, including the judges who last weekend named him the NZ 2023 Horse of the Year. On the strength of what we saw last night in the […]
At a time when Racing NSW is under fire from all quarters and is an has been referred for consideration of contempt before a State Parliamentary Inquiry, you’d think that great care would be taken in the process for appointing new members to the organization’s board, particularly given the trenchant criticisms (warranted or not) that […]
In one of the more bizarre matters to come before the Stewards this year, 20-year-old NSW apprentice jockey Holly Durnan has been suspended for 3 months after being found guilty of workplace harassment involving taking an offensive photograph of a fellow female rider in the jockeys room and sending the image to another racing participant. […]
For the past few months we have been telling anyone who will listen that the Bundaberg greyhound track is unsafe and presents a danger to racing animals, and backed our assertions up with facts and figures about injuries sustained by dogs at the course, particularly on the turns. Racing Queensland and the QRIC agree, and […]
Perhaps you need to be a Kiwi to truly understand and appreciate the majesty of Te Puhoro, the unique trophy for the new NZ thoroughbred slot race The Kiwi, but that’s the whole point. The Kiwi is about celebrating the New Zealand thoroughbred, and everything that is great about the horses and the nation. Te […]
Leading NSW trot trainer Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor has lost his challenge at the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel against his 6 month disqualification for presenting Chubby Checker to race with the prohibited substance levamisole in its system. The Appeals Panel’s decision is yet to be handed down so we can’t elaborate on the reasons for […]
There is no more exciting spectacle in racing that watching two champion jockeys at the peak of their powers going hammer and tong, head to head down the straight in a battle of wits and skill. Yesterday at Rosehill we had the pleasure of seeing it in the shape of Joao Moreira v James McDonald. […]
You have never seen a slaughter job in your life as bad as this one by Alana Cameron aboard King Arthur. Her error of judgement cost this horse the win in this race for all money. The Stewards charged Cameron with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to ensure that King Arthur was […]
The Auckland Trotting Club’s (ATC) long-running dispute with its former TAB Manager Graham Payne has come to an end, for now anyway, after the club lost its appeal seeking to overturn an earlier judgement that it had to honor its contract with the long-serving employee and pay him the estimated $500 000 it owes him […]
This is what is reported in the Auckland Trotting Club annual report. The (now former) staff member involved in a dispute with the club is Graeme Payne, in the case that we have written at length about recently. The ATC claim they ‘do not consider there to be any expected cash outflow’ from the decision […]
