Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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. […]
Sir You are a bit harsh and ignorant about your story about Jilliby Jetpack’s sudden death at Terang. Google Sudden death in racehorses and you will readily access information and come to realise that these events happen in healthy horses. Probably about one in every 20000 starts in harness racing. If you ignore catastrophic musculoskeletal […]
What you are looking at is the horses in the Shoot Out at Doomben on Saturday passing over the crossing where Orbisyn died just two races before. The Shoot Out was the only race on the card that went a full lap, so it’s the only race we can use to show the crossing in […]
Gday Archie I quote the submissions tendered by Darren Weirs legal representative Ian Hill KC in a recent article you published. Editor’s note- this below Weir’s barrister, Ian Hill KC, said his client had offered to plead guilty nearly three years ago, but prosecutors rejected the offer and instead pursued conspiracy charges against Weir and […]
Bruce ‘Snowy’ Clark, the author of the stories about Darren Weir that we dissected yesterday, has fired back with a further Racenet article in his own defence. It’s a good one too, real good indeed. All in one article Clark unleashes his vitriol on Peter V’Landys; Damian Oliver; the News Limited press and its journos; […]
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? Could we? Memories May be beautiful and yet What’s too painful to remember We simply to choose to forget Barbara Streisand Melbourne Cup-winning horse trainer […]
Weir would have to be DQed or warned off wouldn’t he? Who hasn’t been previously for using a jigger? Wallers description of Weir as “addicted to winning” is quite telling but not in the acceptable sense that Waller meant. Everyone enjoys a win, but win too frequently and celebrate too much and the dopamine reward […]
“Look there are obviously things that have been done that I wouldn’t agree with and I don’t know the full circumstances, but I’m not going to sit in judgment like others who want to hang him (Weir) out for life” – Jamie Lovett, Australian Bloodstock “He took it too far, he was obsessed with winning […]
The horses that you see above are pacers trained by Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole. They look good don’t they? Ray Murrihy handed in his ‘independent’ report into claims of race fixing and animal abuse by Yole a month ago. The Tasmanian Government have been sitting on it. Last night Tasracing sent us their weekly spruik about […]
Ben Yole’s best mate the Tasmanian greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock – who was recently disqualified for life after live baiting after the tail of a pademelon (a small possum sized kangaroo) was found on a lure at his property – has appealed his DQ, claiming that deceitful animal activists had ‘planted’ the tail. It’s a […]
