Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Lombo Pocket Watch was one of the greatest juvenile pacers that Australia has ever seen. This horse won 18 races in a row as a 2-year-old, including five Group 1’s, and became the first of his age ever to win the Australian Horse of the Year. Being a rare grey in color, he was also […]
Keep your eyes on the rider in the blue and red silks with red cap on the inside. It’s Rory Hutchings. Watch what he does. For some reason the Eagle Farm Stewards Report is not up yet, so we don’t know if the stipes have seen it. The rest of the animal loving world has […]
Powder Puff looks to sweet to be the kind of hoop who would punch a horse, doesn’t she? Queensland jockey Ceejay ‘Powder Puff’ Graham has been suspended for a week after pleading guilty to an improper action at Caloundra last Sunday. Graham – who has been out of form this season sitting outside the top […]
There is strong mail coming out of Waltzing Matilda country that the owner of one of the runners at Winton on Saturday has recently had animals removed from his property by the RSPCA, who were concerned about their welfare. We don’t know what the bloke – who owns what is sure to be one of […]
Tasmanian horse trainer Liandra Gray has been disqualified for 2 years for animal cruelty after pleading guilty to a charge under the rules related to her whipping a horse more than forty times with a race whip as she was trying to force it to lunge in a sand roll. In August Gray was convicted […]
Anyone watching the last race at Mackay on Thursday afternoon could see that something catastrophic had happened to the Phillip Pengelly trained Thunder Mania, which was pulled up at around the 700m mark after clearly going amiss. The horse had been sweating up like a pig before the race, which was unusual for it (my […]
This website has been much criticized by supporters of Darren Weir for our firm and oft repeated position that the trainer was guilty of a monstrous act that was deserving of a severe penalty, up to and including being warned off for life. Unlike most of our critic we had seen the footage of Darren […]
We learned this week of the disgraceful actions of former licensed NSW stable hand Samantha Murphy, who neglected a number of retired racehorses in her care so badly that they died, and then left their putrefied corpses lying out in a 120 acre paddock to rot. The horses had been cast into the paddock and […]
Central QLD horse trainer Jessica Kuhn hit a horse seven times in the back of the legs with a hard metal object to try and force it to get into a pool. Kuhn cracked it 33 times with a plastic hose too. That’s what most right-thinking people would call animal cruelty. The average reasonable person […]
NSW trot trainer Shane Harmey has been stood down as Stewards continue their investigations into the mysterious unreported deaths of two you seemingly healthy pacers and the disappearance of another seven standardbreds, the majority of them owner by Summit Bloodstock, whose principal Jamie Durnberger-Smith was present yesterday at the first stage of the inquiry into […]
