EXCLUSIVE – Tommy, Tommy, Tommy – Why Do You Young Fellas Send Messages Instead of Call?
The sender is Tommy Berry, The receiver is the Butcher. It’s probably just apropos of nothing at all. Until we publish the next one.
EXCLUSIVE – Tommy Berry – The Money Shot
The man on your left is jockey Tommy Berry. The man on your right is the butcher come millionaire professional punter Zaid Miller. Miller is the man that Berry is charged for dealing with. Except his real name is not Zaid Miller. There is a lot whole lot more to this story than there seems. […]
Oh Dear Mr Day
Its is race 9 at Mackay on Tuesday. Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day – who wouldn’t even be out there if he hadn’t got a stay of a nine month DQ for bribing a Clerk of the Scales at Rocky – is on the horse in the sort of Kingston Towny colours, the yellow with red, in […]
Protest!
Jean Hose has been done for an offence against the Australian Thoroughbred Rules of Racing. That’s what the QRIC says. It is a bit of a problem. Why? Because Jean trains greyhounds. https://qric.qld.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Stewards-Report-Jean-Hose-2022.pdf
$100 Million Later, the Wicked Watch Man Makes His Move
DEC 7, 2022 The Auckland Trotting Club has served an eviction notice on the New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame. Club president Jamie MacKinnon yesterday notified the Hall Of Fame its tenancy agreement will end on March 31 and it must vacate by that date. The order comes just two weeks after MacKinnon was universally […]
The Rain on the Eagle Farm Plain Doesn’t Fall the Same
Eagle Farm and Doomben are located quite literally directly across the road from each other, so close that anyone with a half decent arm could throw throw a cricket ball from one track to the other, no worries at all. What you see above are rainfall and irrigation reports submitted to Racing Australia. We believe, […]
Racing as Art
Romero Britto is world famous Brazilian/American artist who has sold millions of prints of his ‘pop art fused with cubism’ style paintings, designed postage stamps for the United Nations, and designed sets for the Super Bowl half time show. This year he was commissioned to design the official artwork of the Kentucky Derby, to be […]
How They Totally Screwed Up in Tassie – And Why There is No Excuse
The Tassie thing involved the jockey Ismael Toker, and was a running and handling charge. We will never know if he was good for it or not, due to the absolute incompetence of the stipes. You see down in Tasmania there is a local rule that says that inquiries must – MUST – be handled […]
Melbourne Mick Shares His Ratings For the ID22 Finals
Melbourne Mick is a lawyer, nominally at least, but he makes his real money from pricing the odds on the trots and backing the overs, which is why he is always taking trips somewhere overseas, because he can afford it. If I lived in the town where Ned Kelly was hung I’d be getting out […]
An Advance Tip
I am told that a decision is going to be handed down today in a Tasmanian racing matter that is going to shine the spotlight squarely on the ineptitude of the present Stewards, or at least on those who were in charge of the particular meeting at hand. They say it’s the screw up of […]