Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Not all the Telfer horses die on the track. Some survive, and almost kill others. Enjoy Me is a 4-year-old mare who raced at Alexandra Park on the same night that her stablemate Cya Dot died. Two starts before Enjoy Me had won at Cambridge. A year before that she won the rich Sires Stakes. […]
The All Stars Stable of Natalie Rasmussen, Mark Purdon and later Hayden Cullen were the leading trainers of pacers by prizemoney in New Zealand last year, as they have been for the past few years. They trained 97 winners and 116 placed horses across all ages, classes and grades, for total earnings of $3.6 million. […]
Three Stonewall Stud owned horses have died on the track in the past 4 months. Each of them were trained by Steven Telfer. Telfer is the de facto partner of Jill Stockman, the equal share owner in Stonewall Stud with her husband Steve, and has been for a decade. Two of the horses that died […]
This Dr Sam Taylor. He is the vet for Robert Dunn, Steve Telfer, and the Woodend Beach crew. My grandma always told me never to judge a book by it’s cover. I reckon she was right.
Our old mates from Summit Bloodstock were silly enough to buy a horse off Stonewall Stud recently. Stonewall don’t sell good ones. Miss Hathaway was the horse’s name. It came over to Australia on the 30th of March this year. The new trainer gave her a workout. She dropped dead. It was not Summit’s fault. […]
Shocking new information has come to light about how far the jigger boys from Birdsville will go to cheat, and how they do it, and why they don’t get caught. They are hitting their horses with Ice. Not the cold stuff, the Class A drug. Ice is the street name for Methamphetamine, or meth. They […]
My mate Andrew Rule is a great writer, much better than me. Rule is also a racing man, a real one, from a racing family. Which means he knows a whole lot more about jiggers than I do too. Here is how Rule describes it. Rule’s spot on. Not that I would know anything about […]
About four months ago we warned you that the Western Australian vego-fascist animal activist and adult entertainment artist Tash Peterson was planning to disrupt the Million Dollar Chase. We were not making it up. It didn’t happen in the end because Peterson couldn’t put together a crew to pull it off, but it was going […]
Jockey Tony Patillo is probably too intelligence limited to see it, but there is both a very strange irony and a sense of rank hypocrisy in a person typing a Facebook message calling racing writers like me who are read across the industry keyboard warriors. It’s a bit like a bloke sitting on a boat […]
Many have been wondering how jockey Ric McMahon could have been so foolish as to carry a jigger in his hand on the off (right hand) side of the horse he was riding, exposed to public view and, as it turned out, to the camera lens. The answer is perhaps much simpler that you think. […]
