Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If the Emma Stewart trained pacer He’s Ideal is truly eligible to start in this weekend’s Devonport Pacing Cup, then I’ll eat my hat. On fair read of the Tasmanian control body the Office of Racing Integrity’s rules and policies it can’t possibly be. Here are the reasons why, spelled out in clear terms. 1. […]
The APG Board and Management would like to congratulate all the VHRC/APG Yearling Sales voucher winners. APG can confirm that the voucher will be honoured and will be able to be redeemed at either the 2023 APG Queensland or WA Yearling Sale in accordance with the specified T&C on the VHRC website. The voucher is not […]
The well known Sydney harness racing family the McDowell’s are no slouches when it comes to the training game. The family have won a host of Group 1 and other group and listed races with their horses over the years, including all the juvenile features across two states with their champion filly of the 1980’s […]
This article has been contributed by a group of passionate Queensland Country Racing followers working together as a team, as we Maroons are famous for doing. We thank the country crew for taking the huge effort to put it together, and publish or unedited and unabridged. WORDS OF THE YEAR: POC TAX Country Racing continued during […]
This website is the successor to two that I authored before, they being archiebutterfly.com (in 2 different iterations) and itsnotnormalisit.com. The first was in its first existence a crime and politics site. Itsnotnormalisit.com was a mix of live coverage of Royal Commissions, written blow by blow each day as I watched them unfold, thrown in […]
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Keith’s on a roll. Good on him too. I love it, even if the folk from the Canterbury Plains don’t. What would they know about great Australian racing anyway? Blood hell, they eat fishing bait (whitebait) and reckons it’s beautiful. Yeah, prawns heads are too I’m sure, not that I’ve ever tried them or ever […]
We’ve been out of action for a few days helping racing licensees at disciplinary tribunals, so Keith from QLD has stepped into the breach to give us a hand. Here’s his latest offering. With some mighty races coming up I wanted to reminisce about some magnificent achievements that made me love this sport as much […]
The NZ Racing Integrity Board is the greatest white elephant since Dumbo turned grey. After last year doing the hitherto unthinkable (because it was purposeless exercise) and auditing every greyhound kennel in New Zealand – yes, they all had doors and walls with dogs inside them – the IRB has in 2023 decided to adopt […]
Of course they were. Of course they were. Lightning did not strike the trio, for the odds of that occurring are far less than those of 3 healthy young horses dying in the space of 16 weeks from unrelated causes. We like to back the roughies here at the RIB. It was unrelated causes. “Oh […]
