Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is weird tendency in racing around the world to smash jockeys for using jiggers, and pretend that the trainers didn’t know. It happens everywhere, just like this one below Jockey Tomas Mejia receives 10-year suspension, $5,000 fine from stewards at New Jersey's Monmouth Park for possession of an electrical device in 7th race Sept. […]
Have you? I bet you don’t even know what one is. They’re this weird looking Asian cow that looks half buffalo, and they are a critically endangered species. Only somewhere between 4000 and 8000 of them still survive. A bunch of them are up at the 600 000 hectare Mary River Station in the Northern […]
We have to do what’s right for the horse now. He’s been so good to us. Kevin Gordon, owner Lochinvar Art This bloke would have to be kidding wouldn’t he? He is going to do what’s right for Lochinvar Art. Take him to the USA, pump him full of who knows what drugs, hit him […]
Good morning My name is Archie Butterfly and I author the racing website peterprofit.com As you are aware, I wrote the story about the deaths of the three Telfer trained/Stonewall Stud owned pacers that died on the track in the space of just months. I also wrote about a 4th incident involving a horse from the same […]
Racing animal welfare remains our top priority Former QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett, 2019 This is an extract from the belatedly released official Stewards Report from the Morven race meeting at Saturday at which three horses died, in unrelated circumstances according to the QRIC. As you can see, it is clear from the report that the […]
Saturday’s race meeting at Morven was abandoned after race five of the six-race program. Stewards consulted with jockeys after race five on Saturday and it was decided that the last race on the program be abandoned due to the deterioration of the track. Prior to calling off the race meeting there had been three unrelated […]
No horse deserves to die at the races. Imagine the outcry if it was punters dropping dead like flies. What the hell is wrong with this track?
Morven is a small one horse joint of about 200 people, located about an hour’s drive to the east of my Dad’s home town of Charleville, after Roma and Mitchell as you are heading west. They race there about once a year, although God only knows why. It might have been all the go back […]
None of Steve Telfer’s young horses died on the track at Alexandra Park on Friday night thank goodness, but gee two of them put in inexplicably bad runs. No Added Sugar was the favourite to win race 4. This four year old mare had a sweet trail in the line throughout, pulled out to make […]
In the wake of our story about the deaths of three young pacer from the Stonewall Stud stable on NZ tracks in the past four months, and the potentially fatal incident involving a driver at another, the RIB yesterday announced that has launched an investigation into the matters, seeking to determine whether there were only […]
