Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See how Marcus Wilson had 5 of the acceptances in this 9 horse race at the Gold Coast yesterday, and scratched 4 of them? The minimum field size in Queensland is five. You need that many final acceptors to run a race. They didn’t have enough at the close of acceptances so the noms were […]
Jeff Gural, managing partner of New Meadowlands Racetrack, which primarily offers Standardbred racing, announced Nov. 3 that the track has excluded 33 trainers while it conducts its own investigation into the trainers identified by a federal investigation as either having purchased prohibited substances for their racehorses or had their horses test positive for a banned […]
Either trainer Gary Hall Jr has gone all rap star on us and ascended to rare air of the one word names, or the TAB have stuffed this up well and truly. The G Sr doesn’t strike us as the moniker that the veteran trainer would adopt so late in life, so it’s an absolute […]
Our mail is that another very senior manager at the QRIC has been given the long march from the Breakfast Creek office, this time reportedly with an escort to usher them on their way out. The marched senior manager in question is Chris Reid (pictured at top), a well respected media specialist who was employed […]
This is the Stewards report into the Ison-Elder fracas at the Tamworth trots on Thursday. It doesn’t tell us much, other than that something happened. We told you in an earlier article yesterday what the basic guts of it was. The stipes job is to get to the bottom of it. This ain’t over by […]
Who says that no-one reads peterprofit? Within minutes of our story going up about RISA having listed retired hoop Robbie Fradd as riding at Charleville on Melbourne Cup day, the Racing Australia owned body’s records were corrected. Fradd is not making a comeback at all. It is actually Robert Faehr who is riding the horses. […]
Rumours are floating all over the north-west of NSW about a major incident that occurred between the Ison and Elder families yesterday at the Tamworth trots. Tensions that have been brewing between the families for some time after Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock elected to move their horses in the region from the Elder stable […]
Former Hong Kong premiership winning jockey Robbie Fradd retired from race riding at the end of last year after learning that he heart problems that would require triple bypass surgery. Only weeks later he underwent the urgently required operation, which took a massive 5 hours and saw him enter ICU post-op as part of his […]
There has been a terrible fall this morning in the first race at Te Aroho in New Zealand, with jockeys Craig Grylls and Jasmine Fawcett both hitting the ground hard. Miraculously both jockeys appear to be okay. It’s a bloody dangerous game this racing caper, and we don’t appreciate how brave these jockeys who keep […]
Well known Gawler harness racing owner Paul Cormack, a great supporter of the trots, passed away last week after a long and brave fight against illness. His death has been felt by the many in harness racing who loved him, and he will be sadly missed in the sport. Paul’s funeral will be held next […]
