Stone Walls, Drugs and Dead Horses – Part 5 – Behind the Mask
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.
Stone Walls, Drugs and Dead Horses – Part 6 – The Slaughter Stretches Across the Seas
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. […]
EXCLUSIVE – Bigger Than Ben Hur – It’s Not Just the Jigger, These Bad Boys are Hitting Horses With Meth Too
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 Who Wrote the Chopper and Underbelly Books Gives us the Mail on Jiggers
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 […]
Three Pieces of Mutton and a Mountain – Australia’s Maddest Animal Activist Targets The Everest
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 […]
The Jigger is Not the Real Problem – We Are
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 […]
A Very Simple Error, That Exposed a Very Bad Act
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. […]
The Jigger Rule – A 2 Year Disqualification? – It Hardly Seems Enough
Division 5 – Misconduct in relation to the care and welfare of horses AR 231 Care and welfare of horses (1) A person must not: (a) commit or commission an act of cruelty to a horse, or be in possession of any article or thing which, in the opinion of the Stewards, is capable of […]
Todd Austin’s Horses Withdrawn From Birdsville Cup Meetingeva
There is now very strong mail floating about suggesting that ALL of Todd Austin’s gallopers that had trackwork gallops at Birdsville on Tuesday morning were hit with a jigger. In the absence of any photos or footage it is not possible to prove these claims to be true, at least not without a witness statement. […]
Jigger Men’s Licenses Suspended, Effective Immediately
Further to the media statement issued this morning, QRIC has immediately suspended the licence of two Queensland thoroughbred participants. A Stewards inquiry remains ongoing. QRIC takes allegations of animal cruelty are taken very seriously. One of QRIC’s key functions is to safeguard the welfare of any animal involved in racing, and we will take all […]