Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Three weeks ago we told you and the world that NZ harness racing trainer/driver Sheryl Wigg was an odds on certainty to win her appeal against a 19 month disqualification on administration of unlawful substance charges. As usual we were right. Yesterday the High Court of New Zealand ordered that Wigg’s disqualification be stayed pending […]
It’s proponents call it a Stallion Fee, it opponents call it a levy. Same horse, different jockey. Here are the weights. The base charge (or fee) to register a horse with the stud book is $500. Every owner of a sire pays it. Then the Stallion Fee kicks in. Australian domiciled stallions are exempt. All […]
The witnesses keep being rolled out, and they are all pretty much saying the same thing. Lynne Dawson showed all the signs of being a victim of domestic violence, the obvious implication being that Chris Dawson bashed her. Maybe he did at that. And? He may not be the ideal husband – or may not […]
I would have thought that Amanda Thompson, the rider of the horse in the red with the green cap, might have copped a week or two in the bin for coming across so carelessly from the deep and smashing Justin Stanley into the fence on the first turn in race 8 at Cairns on Sunday. […]
Kowhai is a Maori word meaning yellow, which made it a good name for a pacer like the Kiwi pacer Kowhai Shadow, who until a fortnight ago had won just 2 races from 39 starts, both of them in times you can swim faster than with both legs tied together. Then Kowhai Shadow had 4 […]
Paul Courts from Trot Guide reported that the shameful and extremely distressing armed robbery of the pokie room at Globe Derby a couple of weeks ago netted the machete wielding grub who pulled it off a few thousand dollars. Brazen thief robs Trotting Club I’d like to buy land off Courts, for our mail is […]
This reply is from the ‘shit from clay’ correspondent The story with the picture, off (right) hind hoof. That is the leg he fractured too. Chicken or the egg, did he fracture the cannon bone because he was trying not to land on a still sore inside of his hoof, or did he land on […]
Wayne Innes is a parasite, a conman, a fraudster and a thief. He stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from Racing Queensland by deception, and went to jail for it, which wasn’t the first time that the former corrupt copper had seen the inside of a cell. Innes is not only a racing thief, he […]
I went to the same high school as Peter Dutton, although I was two grades above him. Back then St Paul’s was a lot smaller school than it is today, and a few of my mates brothers were in Dutton’s class, so I knew he was and what they said about him, even if I […]
Sometimes the problem not very articulate horseman explaining something to layman who don’t know shit from clay and then write stories that don’t make sense to horseman. Yes Lochinvar Art reportedly had a corn when scratched at Newcastle. A corn is a bruise in the heel in the sensitive tissue in the narrow space where […]
