Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Just when you though it was safe to go back in the water, trot tracks claim another victim to make it four for the week. Riggers River was only 5-years-old when it suffered a catastrophic fracture to the near hind pastern during its race at Gloucester Park on Tuesday night, with the injury deemed by […]
You rarely see horsed die on trot tracks. Tragically this week has been different. We wrote about Jungle Baby and Zeron, the 6yo mare and the 3yo gelding that both dropped dead during their race, and on Tuesday at Albion Park we had the misfortune to see yet another pacer pass away on the track. […]
What a bizarre Stewards report. Albion Park, Saturday night. A 6-year-old mare named Jungle Baby collapses mid-race and falls to the track. She can’t be moved, and the race is called off. The mare is obviously dead, but there is no mention of that in the Stewards report. There is not a word said about […]
As we predicted Jim Murdoch KC (pictured) has weaved his magic and got Tom Smith off with a fully suspended sentence and a fine. We should become fortune tellers. Smith is caught red handed beating a horse for 33 minutes straight and he gets effectively gets off with a fine. You’d have to be kidding. […]
The Racing Appeals Panel decision about Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith’s protest against his 3 month suspension for a sustained 33 minute attack on an innocent horse will be handed down at 9.00am on Thursday. You can watch it as it happens at the link below. https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fe8e6c51-b24d-4f6f-a31a-197368cb7751@d16de530-94e7-4158-b7e2-6ee220af628d If you can’t make it we will be reporting […]
What trainer Thomas Smith did While attempting to swim a young unnamed bay gelding (‘the horse’), Smith: Struck the horse on several occasions using the poly pipe on the gelding’s rump and hind using force Struck the horse across the neck with the poly pipe Shortened the poly pipe to use it as a blunt […]
There have been some very unsavory instances of animal abuse in Queensland racing lately, and the debate continues to rage about the disparity in sentences delivered to the offenders. No-one though is arguing about the sentence handed down on NZ gallops trainer and horse breaker John Ross Malcolm. This bad, bad man got life, and […]
(a) The Adjudicative Committee accepts as credible the evidence of the staff Witness No. 1 which it summarised below. This witness observed Mr Malcolm, whilst angry, punch the horse in the nose, kicked it in the stomach, immobilised its head, chased it to a state of exhaustion and stomped on its nose as it lay […]
Less than two weeks after Tasmanian Parliament heard testimony that he was involved in horse doping, race fixing, and animal welfare breaches, Ben Yole has made application for a stay of his three year sentence for mistreatment of his racing animals. Given the wonky state of some of the evidence that sunk him, Yole just […]
Trainer Tom Smith, pictured with a horse he wasn’t beating As we wait for the decision of the Racing Appeals Tribunal on Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith’s appeal against his 3 month suspension for beating a young horse mercilessly for 33 minutes as he tried to force it into the Callaghan Park pool, a controversy is […]
