Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You might have read our story 3 weeks ago about how the Courier-Mail’s wannabe right wing column leader Peter Gleeson – a chap well known in and around greyhound circles – got caught red handed ripping off another journos work word for word. It’s called plagiarism, and in the world of writers it’s a mortal […]
Peter Gleeson – Scooter to his mates – is the Courier-Mail’s pre-eminent right-wing nutbag columnist, the wannabe heir to Alan Jones and Piers Akerman. Why a bloke from Grafton whose Mum is a dog trainer would want to support the rich and powerful in their exploitation of Australia’s resources, tax system and minimum wage employees […]
These are the lyrics from the song that James Nash High School principal Jackson Dodd sent the staff as his North Gympie school as a memo. Inappropriate for a man in charge of a school full of teenage girls to be sending to teachers under his management control? Does she walk? Does she talk? Does […]
Well she’s sexy and seventeen My little rock-roll queen Acts a little bit obscene Gotta let off a little steam Dig that sound shake it around your mind , mind , mind Johnny and Eddie and me and Jimmy and Jack Are gonna do a little number on the teacher when she turns her back […]
The news has just come over the radio that Josh Adams has been appointed as the new Chief Steward of Thoroughbred Racing in QLD. It is controversial appointment to be sure. Adams, who at age 35 will become the youngest Chief Steward in any major thoroughbred racing state in the land, was only appointed as […]
There are a lot of qualities that are required to be a top shelf Steward. Consistency is chief among them. If licensees aren’t treated equitably, and like punishments aren’t handed down for like offences, confidence in the system becomes eroded. Once that happens, integrity becomes a slippery slope, and all fall down. Cody Collis is […]
So this Central Queensland horse trainer named Ricky Gudge rocks up to the races at Mackay with a syringe and needle in his kit, and uses them to shoot his horse up with a prohibited substance just before the races. Someone dobs him in the Stewards and he gets sprung, red handed. They charge him […]
Merv Butterworth is the master of posing the polite understated question that screams RORT! This below is an extract from a report by Dr Barry Lichter published this morning on the ever-excellent Lincoln Farms website www.lincolnfarms.co.nz, which I highly recommend as a must read for trot fans. (Copy That’s owner) Merv Butterworth said he hopes […]
