Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club and man that we call Winnie the Pooh, claims to be an animal welfare expert. Retirement farms for horses are not enough, and the industry needs to find other pathways following retirement, he beats his chest and proclaims. Just like the Pooh declares to anyone […]
The ‘adopted son’ of Hong Kong, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, dressed in a traditional Chinese costume, practised Tai-chi at a function with the elderly. His mate Johnny must have been out the back reading Mao’s little red book on the throne. John Messara AM wouldn’t be out the back in the shadows trying to sabotage his one […]
Poor old Feathers Fowler. Age may not weary chickens, but it sure does send them blind. Who do you reckon won this photo finish? David Fowler thought the outside. Oh dear. Is it any wonder that one wonder kid caller ended up as Brisbane’s number two? Answer? Nope.
Know how many horses were permanently exported from New Zealand to Australia this year, including one owned by the CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand? Around 50. Which is pretty normal for a nation that exports around 500 horses a year. https://infohorse.hrnz.co.nz/datahrs/statistics/exportedhorses.htm Know how many yearlings are sold in NZ each year? Here is an […]
Last night the committee of the Gawler Harness Racing Club stood down it’s Secretary Angela Goble from duty for 3 months. Why? Because the good lifelong volunteer Mrs Goble dared to ask questions about how the club’s freshly elected President Kaye Halliday had managed to turn a committee resolution to oppose the unwarranted removal of […]
We mentioned in our previous article that a man named Levi Mitchell was appointed to the board of HRSA as its Legal Director, but never took up the role. It is perhaps easy to see why. Levi Mitchell was never a lawyer. He still isn’t. According to his Linkedin page, which is authored by Mitchell […]
After a long period of relative stability on the board of Harness Racing Australia there have been 14 Directors resign in the past 4 years. There are really probably 15, because a chap named Levi Mitchell was appointed to the board in late 2021 but appears never to have taken up the role. That is […]
Hey look, the bras have matching diamond infused sunnies. Wonder who paid for them? They tell me that the Tommy Berry and The Butcher appeals are on for the 1st of March. I also hear that there may be more surprises to come, although neither the punter, the jockey or the authorities know it yet. […]
This is race 4 at Doomben yesterday. Watch the horse 2nd last on the outside in the green gold and light blue colors. It’s name is Different Road, trained by Chris Waller and ridden by Jim Byrne. How the hell did Byrne not go down? It was a masterly piece of riding by the champion […]
This is the cover page of a feature story about Toowoomba trainer Tony Sears in this month’s edition of Racing Queensland’s ‘Race’ Magazine. My mail suggests that RQ may at sometime before the end of the year come to regret their slavish praise of Sears. I’m not to going to tell you why right now. […]
