Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bruce Clark has written the excellent piece on the Darren Weir sentencing hearing republished below. You can find this and a range of other brilliant stories on Bruce’s website clarkofthecourse.com A Victorian Racing Tribunal supposed penalty hearing descended into some farce as another disqualification period was delivered but no absolute decision reached. Darren Weir will […]
The Darren Weir case has taken a strange twist, with submissions from his barrister to be heard on when his seried of concurrent 2-year disqualification will actually start. Does it commence from the date Weir’s previous disqualification ended in February 2023, which would mean that it would expire in February next year and that the […]
Justice John Bowman on the Victorian Racing Tribunal’s penalty decision in the Darren Weir case is to be handed down on Friday morning. Just for a lark we though we’d frame a few markets on what sentence Weir gets. ALL IN BETTING $3.00 NO PENALTY In this scenario Weir gets no penalty over and above […]
As hard as this may be to believe, the horse pictured – the team Yole trained 11yo Hez Razor Sharp – last raced only 16 days ago at a meeting in Launceston. It was his 299th race start, and to no-one’s surprise given the condition that the horse is in, it finished 2nd last in […]
I can understand the driver of the leader in this race Tom Ison getting a little bit preturbed at the horse behind him running up onto his helmet. Anyone would. But most people wouldn’t cock their neck and give the horse a reverse head butt like Ison did, and for very good reasons too, concern […]
The Government seems reluctant to tell you who they have appointeed as the new Acting QRIC Commissioner, so we will. His name is Malcom Letts. Mr Letts is no relation to the famous racing man of the same surname John. This Letts is a career public servant who most recently he has held the role […]
Cheyyna Marston’s tips are going so well that she can’t even afford to buy herself a blouse. Are there no depths to which this animal abusing former jockey won’t plunge? You’re an embarassment Barbie. Give it up.
Remember Oakleigh, the nag with form of a dray cart donkey until its trackword rider hit it with a jigger at the instruction of the trainer to spark it up? Well those devices may be cruel and inhumane but they obviously work, for yesterday in Longreach the horse whose form before being jolted read 35: […]
This seemingly happy picture of a school bus driver with a prized greyhound hides a twisted truth …. A school bus driver who arranged to have four of his racing dogs killed may face criminal charges after an investigation by a greyhound watchdog. Collin Wasson, from Wagga Wagga, pleaded guilty to 16 offences at the […]
On Monday we published a story titled Jigger Me Timber – Is It True That … In this story we posed the questions about whether it was true that …. a tool of a trainer turned up at his local track to work his horse the other day accompanied by a work rider who doubles […]
