Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race day practices It has been submitted that Yole stable horses, on race days, can be required to stand on horse floats and/or be tied up for an extended period of time of up to 16 hours. For example, for a Hobart race meeting, it has been submitted that horses are often loaded at around […]
Start times as “welfare” under heat policies are all “show” anyway. Unless the venue has all its horses stabled on course then instead of spending a period of minutes on track in the hottest part of the day the horses are then spending much longer, in some cases hours, in the hottest part of the […]
A young married couple are accused of using animals on their south coast property for sexual pleasure and filming the disturbing intimate interactions. Police will allege they were confronted with images of bestiality involving a 17-year-old mare called Gemma and a 14-month old border collie called Ekko. Joel Kerim first came to the attention of […]
The full decision of the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board to uphold the appeal of Anthony Bullock against his conviction for live baiting can be found at the link below. Click to access Appeal%20No.%2010%20of%202023-24%20-%20Bullock,%20Anthony%20-%20Reasons%20for%20Decision.pdf In summary, our observations are that: the Stewards stuffed up so did the pathologist who examined the pademelon tail found on the […]
In short: Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock has had a lifetime ban quashed after he was found guilty of being found in possession of an animal tail which could be used as a lure, in contravention of racing rules. An appeal board found it unproven the trainer knew the tail of a native marsupial was […]
Last year The retired racehorse rehoming outfit that former Sky Racing personality Chynna Marston set up has finally lodged it’s Annual Information Statement for the 2022/23 financial year. As you would expect, it wasn’t a great result. In the wake of the tremendously bad publicity about Chynna’s involvement in the neglect of horses that she […]
Sir, In my original correspondence with you I was making an attempt to answer your question ‘Why did Jilliby Jetpack drop dead and die?’ (sic). The answer to this question is because it was a racehorse and these things happen. I made the point that it does happen but is rare. I wrote probably about […]
Big ups @QRICStewardsTHB letting this horse go round at Rocky. #lovethehorse pic.twitter.com/HjhUGiLQec — dbarclay (@miltonmarkets00) January 9, 2024 The incident you see happened as they were loading a group of inexperienced 2-year-olds into the barriers for the first race at Rockhampton today. The horse who rears and crashes to the ground is named Tekeki, who […]
Yesterday we published a letter from Harold in Hampden Park about deaths of harness racing horses on tracks. In it Harold claimed that we were harsh and ignorant vis a vis our observations about the death of a healthy 4YO pacer during a race. He claimed that 1 in 20000 harness horses dies during competition. […]
