Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Isn’t it curious that the brumby rehomer who ‘saved’ 500 horses – the same number that were found dead on the property of unlicensed slaughterman Adrian Talbot, the brother of the Wagga Greyhound Club’s president Ben Talbot – is friends with the Wagga rachorse trainer Trevor Sutherland? In 2020 Sutherland was disqualified for 3 years […]
The bloke in the picture is Adrian Talbot, the bloke in charge of the suspected illegal abbatoir in Wagga where 500 or more horse’s remains have been discovered either on his property or in dry creek beds out the back. They call killing horses dogging, because their slaughtered carcasses are turned into dog meat, just […]
Dr Gregory Hargreaves is a highly respected Australian equine vet who has officiated at more than 1000 race meetings. Greg shared this paper that he delivered to the 22nd International Conference of Racing Analysts and Veterinarians in Dubai in 2018 with us in response to our story about Fabs Cowboy, the bush horse whose winning […]
Rules can negatively impact on the racing industry’s ability to provide racing product. This is illustrated with the example of fourteen year old Sharon The Moment which won at Truro Raceway in Canada on the 31 December 2017 (truroraceway.ca). The next day it was no longer eligible to race, simply because it was one day […]
Using various Catastrophic Musculoskeletal Injury (CMI) rates I have constructed Table 1. Number of starts go up to three hundred as I have examined Standardbreds at the racetrack who have had in excess of that number of starts. An Australian Thoroughbred, Play David (b1978), had 236 starts and retired in Jun 1992 as a thirteen year […]
Many people in racing are a bit confused by the reports of the Darren Weir & ors case, and can’t really follow the play. So we’ve decided to try and make it a bit easier to understand. The rule that Weir and the others are charged with is rule 229(1)(b), which is detailed below in […]
You’d love to be able to look at the replay of race 5 at Toowoomba on Saturday night so you could form an opinion on the protest decision, but just you go and try. The replays of races 4 and 6 are up, but there are none of the 5th that can be accessed from […]
Why did Guy Looks Good go so bad in this race at Burnie on Sunday? If he really was tying up, then why? Was it because the Bain/Summit owned pacer hadn’t been exercised properly in the 7 weeks leading into this race? After all, lack of conditioning for a race is one of the major […]
Tartare de Cheval (Raw, ground horse) (translated from the online French horse butcher: http://boucherie-cheval.fr) Ingredients: 25 oz horse tenderloin 3 oz capers 3 oz gherkins 3 oz shallots 4 egg yolks 2 oz grated parmesan lime juice Tabasco Worcestershire sauce salt and pepper Preparation: Finely dice the horse meat. Mince the shallots, capers and gherkins and […]
How to cook you horse – https://theworld.org/stories/2013-03-11/how-cook-your-horse A few months ago we highlighted the large number of pregnant NZ mares being sold to Chinese buyers, and shipped off to Asia to destinations and futures unknown. Now out international correspondent the highly acclaimed racing writer Will Jones has uncovered evidence about a similar practice occurring in […]
