Help Laura and Her Team Save Horse’s Lives – Show You Care Too
Laura Cheshire is a mate of mine, and she is a bloody good person. She believes in retired race horses having good lives. I do too. The charity that Laura leads is called Save a Horse Australia. It’s aim is to save all of them. Ours is too. It should be yours as well. Show […]
On Horses That Race Every Day
This is a missive from a reader who knows more about harness racing in their little finger than most of us know in our whole bodies, talking about our story yesterday criticising the decision to allow the maiden pacer Bear’s Best to race in consecutive days Oh well, I don’t mind being proven wrong Apologies […]
The Soundest Horse in the Wide Brown Land
Watch the horse at the back, in the orange with the blue cap. It’s name is Boomed, and it is trained by Roy Chillemi. The on-course vet inspected it after the race and declared it had no abnormalities. Are they looking at the same horse as us? If Boomed was sound, then the Pope is […]
Queensland – The Animal Welfare Capital of the World
Bear’s Best is a pacer, a rather slow one. He has 20 starts and never won a race. On Wednesday night at Redcliffe the horse raced in a lowly maiden at Redcliffe, and after sitting out the back doing nothing in the run it was under the whip at the 400m mark and couldn’t go […]
This is Bad, Real Bad
At the 400m mark in the fast class race at Addington on Thursday night the good class pacer Dance Time snapped his back left leg. You can see it in the picture at the top and in the video below. It was obviously hugely painful, and you can’t walk on broken legs, or shouldn’t anyway […]
This is What Two Weeks at John McMullen’s Place Does to a Horse He Doesn’t Want
This scrawny, mangy ghost of a horse is King Kulafu. My mate The Boxer owned him until a couple of weeks ago. He last saw him at the start of May before he left for Thailand to get married. At that stage the King was a healthy, well muscled, fit horse. The King raced at […]
Why Did Steel Prince Die? – And Why Have Sam Freedman and the Mainstream Racing Media Called the Cause of Death Before the Body Has Even Gone Cold?
“He’s been an amazing horse for the whole stable and his owners and sadly, had a heart attack coming out of the gates” – Sam Freedman Steel Prince has long been an unsound galloper. The 8-year-old horse only raced 33 times in 5 years. Due to various injuries and problems he has spent 2 of […]
Stepping Over a Bleeding Grandmother to Get to the Movies on Time – Integrity, South Australian Style
Santa and the reindeer brothers grim What happened yesterday when the Stewards allowed a race to start while a distressed horse was lying stricken on the ground stuck under the gates was an outrage, an absolute disgrace. They did it because the race was running real late, and they didn’t want to lose their spot […]
The Dream Team of Security Guards to Keep the Vego-Terrorists Off the Track At the Chase
Andrew Symons hit on the try hard streaker was good, but a bit high. Sam Kerr’s shoulder charge on the idiot who invaded the soccer field was grand, but the shoulder charge has been banned. The guard at the Gold Coast NRL game’s body slam tackle was good too. Not as good as the Kiwi […]