Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Here is the list of current apprentice jockeys in Queensland. There is not a single boy on it. Oh how the racing world has changed, and how it will continue to change until the weight scale does. It’s a sign of times. All power to the girls. They should say prayers to Pam O’Neill every […]
The longest drought in Central QLD racing history finally broke on Thursday when Cashin’ Chex stormed to the line to give Mackay trainer Drew Crouch his first winner since March in the year 2006, way back when little Johnny Howard still ruled Australia and James’ Blunt’s Beautiful soared on top of the charts. It had […]
Gary Hall Jr has been handed down a 5 week suspension for unnacceptable driving on Wildwest in the race you see above and below, with two weeks of the five absorbed into a separate suspension for the same offence that he has already on the out for, meaning that for this particular piece of cheating […]
The Darren Weir case has taken a strange twist, with submissions from his barrister to be heard on when his seried of concurrent 2-year disqualification will actually start. Does it commence from the date Weir’s previous disqualification ended in February 2023, which would mean that it would expire in February next year and that the […]
THIS PUNTER RECKONS THE ‘SULTAN’ ISN’T WORTH A ‘PEANUT’ SPEAKING of tipsters, the rising star of the Racing.com ranks – the man they call ‘The Sultan’ – copped a deserved backhander from MICK the MAD PUNTER from MELBOURNE. ‘His name is David Strehlau and he emerged from oblivion to claim fame as a great tipster with […]
Much loved Kiwi horsewoman Katie Cox lost her brave battle with cancer yesterday. She was only 34. They say that only the good die young. This wonderful young woman’s passing proves it. Katie’s favorite pacer Spy Da Moment lines up in the 7th at Addington tonight, where the track will be awash with tears. Spy […]
The tempestuous career of talented apprentice Bailey Wheeler has struck another setback, as usual one totally of his own making, when he was this week suspended for 28 days for lying to the Stewards at the Ipswich Cup meeting. Details are a little scant, but the guts of it is that when Wheeler turned up […]
Apprentice jockey Tyler Leslight’s 4-week suspension for calling rival rider Wanderson D’Avila a ‘black c**t’ has this week been reduced to a $1000 fine by the Racing Appeals Panel. In making its decision the Panel found that the sentence issued to Leslight was disproportionate to those handed down to other offenders against the rule, including […]
The mail out of Sydney is that the venal, imperious soon to be sacked CEO of Greyhound Racing NSW Rob MaCaulay this week authorised spending of $100 000 on a radio and online campaign designed to save his job, if not his soul. If I didn’t already know so much about some of the decisions […]
The NSW Racing Minister wants the CEO of Greyhound Racing NSW Rob McCaulay sacked, but he can’t do it himself because underthe Greyhound Racing Act he doesn’t have the power. So Harris instructed the GRNSW Board – which does have the power to sack Macaulay – to do it for him. The Board refused. It […]
