Protest? You Can’t Protest! The Chairman Has Already Made Up His Mind! – Whip Rules? What Rules? Never Heard of Them – Stewarding Queensland Style – The Place Where You Never Need a Jury (First Published June 2020)
Well, Well, Well – Look Who Owns Runners in the Race From Which Copy That Was Cut
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 […]
Leading US Harness Owner Down Under Quits the OZ and NZ Game – Gordon Banks Tells the Doctor Exactly Why
Gordon Banks and his cousin Marc Hanover have been great supporters of Australian and New Zealand harness racing for almost two decades now, and have poured a fortune into the local industry through their purchases of both yearling and tried horses. Gordon is also one of the most erudite people in harness racing, a man […]
Archie’s Early Tips For the World Cup Come True
Here are some extracts from last week’s story giving you our early predictions for the Soccer World Cup. We’re going alright at present. Australia will not win a game in Qatar, and unless a miracle happens they won’t even manage a draw. A first round knockout is an absolute certainty. Graeme Arnold is the most […]
It’s All Just Flipped to Me
Principal’s welcome My name is Jackson Dodd and I am proud to be the Principal of James Nash State High School located in the picturesque rural landscape of north Gympie. James Nash State High School is a large and welcoming secondary school campus set in native bushland, with over 1200 students from ages 11 to […]
Some Kid From James Nash High Has a Wicked Sense of Humour
Jackson Dodd is a school principal who is in the firing line this morning for sending highly inappropriate film clips of songs like My Angel is a Centrefold and Sexy And Seventeen to his staff as memos. God knows why he did it, or what he was thinking, but me thinks a sacking surely awaits. […]
What Makes V’Landys Such a Brilliant Racing Administrator – It’s the Economy Stupid
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 […]
Money, It’s a Gas – And Large Piles of Cash Without Receipts Stink
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 […]
Here We Go Again
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 […]