Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I have been banging on about hocking in NSW harness racing for months now. It’s for a good reason, many of them in fact. Hocking is the practice of kicking your horse in the back of the leg to propel it forward, the purpose being to inflict pain on the horse to tell it not […]
Take a look at this disgraceful piece of abhorrent animal abuse inflicted on the horse Comet Crusader by its driver Blake Hughes in the 2nd heat of the NSW Derby last Saturday week. Comet Crusader is the horse on the inside rail in the white. The one gone and going backwards. Hughes left right saws […]
Watch the horse in the bright red headgear, back second last on the fence. In particular, watch it’s driver Jeremy Quinlan and see what he does. Now watch the head on. Quinlan comes clearly into shot about 5 seconds in. Watch his actions closely. They are disgraceful. What justification in the world can there be […]
I write often about harness racing drivers ‘hocking’ – kicking their horses to make them run faster – for I consider it a cruel and barbaric practice, and one that must be stamped out by stomping down hard on drivers who do it. Would you run out onto the oval and kick your kid in […]
Weasel was born when John Howard was Prime Minister. During his racing career there have been six PM’s since. They are Kevin 07 Julia Gillard Kevin Rudd Tony Abbott Malcolm Turnbull Scott Morrison All bar Morrison have gone the way of the Tasmanian Tiger. Weasel, at age fifteen, remains. He ran again at Redcliffe yesterday. […]
What about his left boot sir! Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainer is like the girl in the ZZ Top song. He’s got legs, and he knows how to use them. He’s got legs, and knows how to bruise them. Poor old Krug copped a good right boot in the back end on the home turn on the […]
Gavin Fitzpatrick booted Bad to the Bone in the back leg just inside the 200 metre mark in the first race at Menangle on Saturday night, in a vain attempt to kick it on into first place, pardon the pun. He did it right in front of the crowd, and in full view of the […]
Alright. Watch this. You are looking at the horse on the inside, the one in the maroon and white. Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor is it’s driver. Watch his foot. And while you are doing so, ask yourself whether horses deserve to be kicked hard to make them run faster, or least as fast as they can […]
Three months ago a greyhound trained by Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole’s best mate Anthony Bullock suffered a terrible injury at the Tuesday night trials at the Launceston track. The RSPCA claims that the dog was writhing in pain and needed immediate veterinary attention, but there was no vet on duty at the track to assist the […]
