Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bill Clinton successful 1992 campaign run for US President was founded on a simple premise. It’s the economy, stupid. Everything revolves around the economy. If money is coming in hard, everything is sweet. If it’s not, then life’s a constant struggle, and running racing is too.. It is easy as that. Why then is Peter […]
What you see above is taken from the auditor’s report into it’s examination of Globe Derby’s finances last year, which in accounting terms ran from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. The Auditor said that cash was a significant source of income for the club. But the club didn’t cough up with the receipts […]
Which former promising Brisbane apprentice was recently thrown off a plane home from a race meeting after rolling onto the aircraft blind drunk and then proceeding to make a pig of himself in full view of every passenger on board? I’m not going to name the bloke, other than to say that if you cast […]
Club officials used to act as Stewards way back in the dark ages when Australian racing began. It was a just a squatters sport back then, and the stipes were volunteers who gave their time to officiate at the races held on their tracks. But there was no official betting then, so it wasn’t that […]
You can’t be too hard on young apprentices for making mistakes, and if you back $2.25 shots ridden by one it’s a case of punter beware, but gee didn’t young Angela Jones stuff this ride up on the favourite Tick Tock Queen in the 7th at Doomben yesterday? It was a comedy of errors, except […]
We are pleased to announce that the new CEO replacing Dayle Browne at Harness Racing Victoria is a man named Matt Isaacs. Isaacs – a graduate of Sydney University who finished dux in his MBA year – is from a retail background, and spent the earlier part of his career in management roles at Coca-Cola […]
Brett Finch sold the judge a yarn that he left vile perverted messages about raping 12 year old boys and sticking so far down their throat that they started choking because he was trying to score drugs. Finch never actually mentioned drugs in his perverted chat line messages, not once: but he claimed that he […]
The drivers at Wagga were overjoyed to experience the hospitality in between races provided by the club’s much disliked CEO Greg Gangle at its first meeting his ban on the generous Mrs Christine Clement buying food for the drivers and trainers room. They got to share a packet of biscuits instead. Great work Gangles. When […]
Tuesday 15 February 2005 – Steward knew ‘all about’ race fix Former jockey Danny Hobby has told an inquiry he believed steward Wayne Wood had “known all about” a 1980s race scandal in Western Australia where Hobby was paid to throw a race by jumping off his horse. The inquiry into alleged corruption in Queensland […]
Noel Callow has just copped 3 months for betting on races, in total breach of the rules and his own obligations. Usually such an offence is a minimum 1 year disqualification – remember J-Mac copping it? – but in this case in it’s wisdom the Victorian Racing Tribunal has seen fit to give Callow only […]
