Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see above is Todd Austin’s strike rate this season. This below is Austin’s career strike rate. Do you reckon the jiggers work? Yeah, we all do. It because we are not stupid. Only cheats who use jiggers in front of cameras are.
This picture was taken at trackwork at Birdsville this morning. The horse in the picture is ridden by Ric McMahon and trained by Todd Austin. I don’t know which horse it is, but it won’t be hard to identify, for the brand is clear. Look closely at McMahon’s hand, just above where he is holding […]
The horse that Ric McMahon is riding with a jigger in his hand is Hemmerle. Todd Austin is the trainer. It is the topweight in the Birdsville Cup. Or was. All Todd Austin’s horses must be scratched from the meeting, and stood down from racing until the Stewards sort this whole thing out. Hemmerle is […]
See that thing in the US jockey’s hand? It is the same thing that was in Ric McMahon’s at Birdsville trackwork yesterday. It is a jigger. This is disgraceful conduct that brings shame to our sport.’ Everyone involved should be banned for life.
A jigger is a battery powered electric shock device, similar to a taser. Long used in the Australian racing industry as a means of pushing horses to run faster, their use was curbed during race meets once stewards vision of races improved with the introduction of video surveillance. Illegal under the Prevention of Cruelty to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
