Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie, I know you are on top of this one. But I am perplexed somewhat…. How does it take nearly 12 months to hear these inquiries? Who conducted the soil testing? Was it tested by an accredited lab and an analysis report available? Were any other horses trained by these trainers and stabled at the […]
Three decades back, when we were young. Where did the years go? They pass so quick when you’re in love, they truly do. My wife and I celebrated Valentine’s Day with a quick round of horizontal folk dancing, after which she cooked me some eggs and whizzed me up a cracker of a fresh OJ, […]
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff, the last Liberal leader still in government left standing, has made the politically suicidal decision to call a snap election, more than a year before its due. His maniacally bad judgement is set to have huge ramifications for racing in the State. At the moment Tassie has 25 members of parliament, […]
The NSW Greyhound Integrity Commission has disqualified greyhound handler John Donald Wright, aka Winchester, from holding a license for three and a half years after the vice-president of the Canberra branch of the Rebels motorcycle gang pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to cultivate a trafficable quantity of cannabis, money laundering, possessing a prohibited weapon […]
Is it true that three prominent Cairns based trainers were hauled into the Stewards room last week to face charges after having horses return positive swabs to arsenic? How can these trainers rumored excuse of contamination stand up, when others training out of the exact same complex haven’t returned any positives to the substance? Will […]
UBETCHA TIGERPIE– Pre-race blood sample. Worked forward to the lead passing the 1000 metres. Stewards questioned driver Michael Stanley with regards to the tactics he adopted through the early and middle stages of the event, in addition to the overall performance of the gelding which tired over the concluding stages to finish in sixth placing […]
As you the reader will know, we single-handed broke the story of the QRIC’s cuts to the number of vets and swab attendants on duty at Queensland race meetings and ran it hard, calling the integrity body’s actions every name under the sun, all of them which fit. After we’d exposed the plan and told […]
This bloke Scott Robinson was one of the crooked suppliers of performance enhancing drugs to trainers in both codes who was targeted by the FBI investigation a couple of years ago that saw dozens go to jail. He was one of them. Obviously Robinson learned nothing from his spell inside. He was straight back into […]
This one’s for you Ben and Emma Some people think they are the game and can hold it to ransom by weight of numbers. The races will go on as they did before they had a stranglehold on races, meetings and prize money. The average mug punting in a punt tab over a beer or […]
Jeff Jones was a much loved greyhound trainer who through his efforts for trainers, owners and breeders to advance the industry via his involvement with GBOTRA gave back to greyhound racing as much as he got. Sadly Jeff died way too young – only the good do – but he is remembered through the memorial […]
