Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Have you watched the first part of the newly released series about the Everest? The Race it’s called, and it’s a cracker. You can find it here at the link below. I highly recommend it. https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/the-race-documentary-meeting-date-clash-the-latest-salvo-in-bitter-interstate-battle/news-story/f4a85c3dde78a7dff83fb61f339d6d71 PS – Love the name too. Won’t the Victorians be loving this. Wonder if they will try to copy […]
For the 8th consecutive year Queensland harness racing has returned a 7-figure loss, taking the total losses over these 8 years to over $45 million. The only good news is that the loss this has been reduced to ‘only’ a million dollars, but still it is unsustainable in the long term, and something has to […]
Independent investigator Ray Murrihy early last month released his interim report into the allegations of animal cruelty are race fixing made against trainer Ben Yole, but to the disappointment of most the key questions were not answered, with those to be addressed in Murrihy’s final report due to be released at the end of the […]
Ratings The ratings system is a national one, adopted by all but one state in Australia. However in my view, with Tasmania having full race fields and only racing usually two race dates per week, the ratings system is not conducive to the best outcome for competitive racing. Tasmanian handicap conditions need to effect changes […]
The Commission’s Intel strategy, which uses intelligence data to crack down on wrongdoing in the racing industry, was fruitful in several cases this year, including when our RSC found evidence of a new substance being abused in greyhounds after using new information to target high-risk substances. When wastewater in a particular region was found to […]
Almost 40 years ago the name Harbour Gold became infamous after the horse was beaten in a close finish by Fine Cotton, but almost immediately promoted to first place when it was discovered that the winner was rung in. Now all these years Harbour Gold has done a Lazarus and risen from the grave to […]
If the cost per sample of swab testing decreases, then how does the cost of each test increase? Wouldn’t logic suggest that if the number of animals you test each year goes down, the cost per test would too? Instead though the median cost of the tests has risen from $302 the year before up […]
The Auckland Trotting Club continues to throw its ‘recover’ – if that’s the right word, which I doubt – its members good money after bad in its mad quest to extract compensation and damages from the Directors of its sacked contractor Canam Constructions Ltd (CCL), a company that has long been in liquidation and doesn’t […]
After another big weekend for women in racing around the world, it might be time for the Hong Kong Jockey Club to again consider why a top female jockey or trainer is yet to join the jurisdiction on a full-time basis. In Sydney on Saturday, jockeys Rachel King and Kathy O’Hara won Group 1 races […]
Whoee Johnson is well tried 9YO pacer who has had 113 starts across 6 seasons at a variety of tracks. The fastest time he ever run and won in any of them was 1.58.6. Last night at Globe Derby the horse was backed off the map from $5.00 into even money ($2.00). It led out […]
