Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the same day that the Tanya Parry trained 4-year-old mare I’lltellyouafter died a premature and completely unnecessary death on the dirt track of Richmond, one of its’ stablemates – ironically another 4yo mare named Lively Spirit – finished tailed out by almost 40 lengths in a race at the same meeting on the same […]
I’lltellyouafter is the 4-year-old mare we wrote about yesterday, the one who broke down in the race at Richmond, who we predicted would be dead before dinner time. Sadly we were right. The question is how did the Stewards allow the mare who had been beaten almost 20 lengths at its previous run and looked […]
The words you read below are taken verbatim from the QLD Racing Appeals Panel dismissing trainer and former race club chief Peter Inwood’s appeal against a lengthy disqualification for an animal welfare rule offence. This is what happens to dead racehorses in the bush. We dump them off the side of the road. Read it […]
There is no Stewards Report up yet, so we cannot say it for certain, but if the Tanya Parry trained galloper I’lltellyouafter isn’t dead this morning then I’m not here. It’s break down in the maiden yesterday at Richmond in Far North Western QLD was catastrophic. It brought tears to your eyes. How the mare […]
The fringe dwelling Animal Justice Party has received disproportionate influence over the pat 4 years since its flagship politician Georgie Purcell, thanks to a preference swap deal, was elected as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly with just 1.5% of the primary vote. It won’t happen again. Purcell and her party are gonzo at […]
Racing Australia has bowed to the long inevitable, and is going to outlaw jockeys use of spurs. Spurs are getting banned. It’s sort of apropos of nothing, for spurs is a misnomer. They’ve been blunt for years. The ones that are about to be outlawed look like this. Sure they probably hurt a horse a […]
Do you remember the story we told you last week about how jockey Tash Chambers was fined only $200 for smacking her mount in the head after it stepped on her foot when they returned to the enclosure after the race? Well the animal activists are blowing up big time about the light penalty, and […]
If you were about 5ft 6 and a big muscly bastard accidentally stood on your foot on a bus, would you react by whacking them in the head. I doubt it, not unless the big bugger was restrained, giving you a free shot. Even then its still not kosher, for whatever reason, and if you […]
There is a somewhat interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this week. It relates to the death of a racehorse named River Danzka in early 2025, and the reasons behind it. River Danzka was a slow 5-year-old gelding trained by former Mount Isa race club President Peter Inwood, and had been beaten […]
You just can’t please some people, especially the anti-greyhound brigade who seem to want to see the noble breed that has been mentioned in history since the days of Cleopatra disappear from the face of the earth. Dr Alison Vaughan, the senior scientific officer from the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty […]
