Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Until last Saturday week Jason Grimson was the trainer of the 7YO pacer Firefox. Under his expert tutelage, the horse won 4 of its first 5 starts, but then it went off the boil and ended up racing (and winning) in a claimer in Melbourne. It won 2 more races after that, the last of […]
What a wonderful gesture by KO Thoroughbred Racing to give away a share in a racehorse worth thousands, especially after they have put a $540 000 mark up (less expenses) on the three yearlings they bought at the Magic Millions earlier in the month. Which horse will it be? One of the yearlings or one […]
SLEEPEE – Began badly when galloping away and will continue to be excluded from the mobile barrier draw. Pulled up and retired from the race as it approached the first turn due to a damaged right sulky shaft. The sulky was inspected post-race and found to be of suitable quality. Prior to the all-clear Stewards reviewed […]
Crypto billionaires Ed Craven and Bijan Tehrani have struck a deal with ASX-listed RAS. By JOHN STENSHOLT EDITOR, THE LIST 5:56PM JANUARY 22, 2024 Stake.com, the world’s largest gambling company by volume and led by young Australian billionaire Edward Craven, has struck a deal with a small ASX-listed firm to use its technology to launch a horse racing […]
Australian-based Stake.com founders dodge $580 million claim BySarah Danckert June 27, 2023 — 12.05pm The two founders of Stake.com have managed to avoid a $580 million claim against their business by a former business partner after a US court threw out the claim for a lack of jurisdiction. Last year, the former business partner to […]
There is no racing jurisdiction or code in the world that is as compromised by conflicts of interest as that in New Zealand. The Racing Integrity Board (RIB) is the supreme body for matters of drug and race drive cheating. It employs the Stewards, and is their boss. One of the Racing Integrity Board’s members […]
Imperatriz has won 17 of her 23 starts, eight Group 1’s and $5.4 million in stakes. Five of her only six losses were on wet tracks, with her only other defeat being a second behind the ill-fated Sword of State, who was quite possibly the best dry track sprinter NZ had seen before her. I […]
Has there ever been a more profitable investment than tobacco shares? Or tax? And is it any wonder that the organised underworld has shifted or expanded its focus from Class 1 drugs to cigarettes? Forty years ago when Hoges was a young man fresh off the rig of the Sydney Harbour Bridge selling smokes, a […]
This is the macho Solo Man today. A sad pedo ice addict resident in a Cambodian jail cell after being busted with 4 packets of meth and a pound of dope in his boy heaven home. I wonder what all those teen girls like my sister who had Mark Coutelas’ Solo Man posters on their […]
