Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our mail out of Melbourne is that a very well-known and loved Melbourne bookies clerk was seen strolling out of a garishly painted Mason Street, Newport tobacconist store this week with ten cartons of gaspers tucked under his wing. The problem is that the bloke – whose name is Renoir, or Rimbaud, or Rosscoe or […]
French jockey Mickaelle Michel (3rd in the grey and purple silks) was a wee bit upset about being chopped out by rider Jack Hill (teal stripes, white cap) when he came around and crossed her in a race at Hamilton late in May. At the conclusion of the race and continuing into the mounting yard […]
Top jockey Matthew Cameron has been stripped of his racing licence in the wake of his conviction for indecent assault. The 35-year-old was sentenced to 90 hours’ community work and ordered to pay $900 to the victim, on Tuesday in the Hamilton District Court after pleading guilty to the booze-fuelled assault. New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing […]
in 2021 Kiwi jockey Matthew Cameron lost his license after being convicted of the criminal offence of indecent assault. After spending more than 2 years out of racing, New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing controversially granted Cameron a special exemption from the rule that prohibits people with criminal histories from being licensed, and gave him his riders […]
Star jockey Matt Cameron will return to race riding tomorrow after being granted an exemption from his racing ban for an indecent assault conviction. Cameron had his riding licence revoked by New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing after being convicted of indecent assault on an adult male in July 2021. Cameron, who is openly gay, was sentenced […]
One of the most common questions we are asked the casual harness racing observer on this site is a simple one. “How hard is it to fix a trot race?” Not very is the answer, particularly when you have two drivers in on the fix. In 2014 the infamous now banished father and son team […]
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 […]
