Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just look at this pair. Would you trust either of them to babysit your kids, look after your wallet while you go for a swim, or chaperone your wife to the Opera? If yes, you need need urgent professional help I was swamped with requests to follow up on a story that appeared on the […]
Another great Irishman with a bit of Ernie in his name So what do you make of the Birdsville jigger inquiry? My view is this. Ric McMahon is lying like fuck, and then lying some more when he claims not to know what a jigger is, or how to use it. That’s bollocks. McMahon moved […]
Further mail has been received about the QRIC restructure of the Stewarding ranks. Our sources inside the bubble tell us that the Integrity Unit is definitely being disbanded. All positions in it are likely to become redundant. Eight new positions will be created. Three will be in Brisbane. Five will be in Regional QLD, and […]
As the brilliant Brad Reid reveals on Harnesslink this morning, the schemers on the HRNZ board late last year quietly slipped a changed into the rule 1303(i) that I wrote about last night to change the meaning from that which I detailed in my story to this which Reid has detailed in his. There can […]
For those of us who don’t know a great deal about horse doping – which is most normal, good people – the revelations in the FBI drug prosecutions and trials are extremely instructive. In fact when you read them and think about a lot of things that happen here in the Southern Hemisphere – things […]
Illegally doping racehorses is animal abuse in the service of greed. Such corruption threatens the health of racehorses and undermines the integrity of the sport. Today, three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in perpetuating, and profiting from, the mistreatment of animals. The sentences each defendant received appropriately reflects the seriousness of […]
The recent article written by former staff member Brad Reid outlining some of the deep, underlying problems with NZ harness racing has struck a real cord with participants in the sport, so much so that I am led to believe that within days it has become one of the most read stories ever on the […]
The latest mail on the internal ructions at QRIC are that the Integrity Investigations Team (IIT) is the group that is being targeted in the latest sweep of the broom wielded by the new(ish) executive management team that is now running the organisation. Word is that the IIT in it’s present form is going to […]
Jockey Ric McMahon has delivered bombshell evidence in the first day of the Birdsville Cup jigger stewards’ inquiry, claiming trainer Todd Austin handed him the electrical device and told him to use it on a horse’s neck during track work. McMahon told the Doomben hearing that Austin handed him a jigger to use on one […]
There are deep internal runctions about what appears to be a restructure going in inside the QRIC, with at least three integrity officials we are told in the gun, and fearful for their futures. People don’t get sacked in the public sector, not unless they have their hand in the till or act entirely inappropriately […]
