Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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We wrote recently about how Peter ‘The Plodder’ Chadwick hadn’t posted a Stewards Report for a trot meeting he was in charge of a week after it had been run and won. Well here is another one. There was a metro meeting held two Saturday nights ago at Melton. It is our understanding that the […]
QUACKERY- After dislodging the tongue-tie at the barriers and that piece of gear was unable to be refitted, raced without that piece of gear. This was announced by way of oncourse public announcement. Laid in under pressure on straightening. Shifted in soon after passing the winning post crowding DRAGON PINS. Jockey N Tomizawa was advised […]
Normal footage (above). Stewards footage (below). Huh? How did Chief Steward Crayons decide that Kenji’s horse got a fair start if he couldn’t see the head on footage? Or did he? Race 2: REMEMBERING MARK FLINT CLASS 4 HANDICAP (1300m) Correct weight was delayed allowing Stewards to view the start regarding Jockey K. Yoshida […]
Racing Victoria’s highly embarrassing backdown on its whip free so called Big Bash style Summer racing series sounds the death knell for Andrew Jones short reign as CEO, and after his “I couldn’t care” comments about what the industry thought about his plans no-one in racing will shed any tears when the arrogant fool goes. […]
Lacey Morrison was a leading apprentice as a kid, but like many other young jockeys – particularly females back in the dark old days, which were more recent that you think – she found it a bit tougher to secure the good mounts once her claim was gone, and then she had a baby, and […]
Good morning I have just read case RAP-34, a matter involving an appeal by the jockey Sariah Champkin against a penalty imposed by the Stewards. https://www.publications.qld.gov.au/ckan-publications-attachments-prod/resources/526f0b56-c1d4-49a3-b7ac-512ced3166dc/rap-34-decision.pdf?ETag=4e3c8e30e55c9a9a90b1f04be3783ffd In her submissions on penalty, Champkin told the Panel that she was in a parlous financial position due to earning $12 an hour as an apprentice jockey. This was […]
We are a weird mob we punters are. Zjelko Ranogajec – the Joker – is widely regarded as the world’s biggest punter, but he’s not. It’s a dead heat between he and his business partner David Walsh, who has used some of his vast fortune to buy all the land up the road from the […]
There are some funny rumours floating around about the propriety of the ownership of the John Singleton slot in the Eureka. I cannot vouch for this, other than to say that the two unconnected people who told me about it can. They say that there is a silent 2/3rd’s share holder in the slot. The […]
What you see at the top is what driver David Moran told the world before the race about his firm driving tactics on Captain Hammerhead in the Singo at Menangle last Saturday night . Moran backed up his statement just 90 seconds before the race when he told the on-track presenter the same thing. These […]
