Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
We’re up a goal against the frogs after just 11 minutes. It would be a brave punter who’d back us to stay there, but who cares? We’ve scored the first goal! When’s the last time France won a war without us? We didn’t let let Hitler waltz into Sydney and take over our country did […]
How do the committee of Globe Derby come to the conclusion that the club can pay its debts as they fall due? Globe Derby owes almost $4.5 m It has just under $1.8 million to its name, if you believe the Directors of the club. I don’t. Suspend disbelief and assume that they are telling […]
At no time was my application to include the jogging or pre-training of horses. It was solely for permission to break in yearlings with strict guidelines prepared by the CEO of HRNZ relating to numbers and stage of yearling preparation before they were to be passed to a trainer. Given this opportunity, my intentions were […]
