Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Two men on a motorbike lure a greyhound during a dangerous and illegal coursing sport described as a ‘new craze’ in India. FORMER SPORTING GREYHOUNDS exported from Ireland are being used in a cruel “new craze” sport in India. Noteworthy can reveal how the dogs are being forced to chase speeding motorbikes on open stretches of […]
By Jo Lines-MacKenzie Waikato Times A Waikato thoroughbred trainer who has been accused of mistreating horses by hitting them in the face and flipping them onto the ground has been charged by the racing industry. John Malcolm of Cheltenham Stables in Cambridge is facing 12 charges laid by the Racing Integrity Board (RIB). Chief executive […]
Startling new information contained in a submission to NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Into the Proposed Sale of Rosehill Racecourse has revealed that Racing NSW rehomed just 61 retired racehorses in the 2023 year. This information was obtained from Racing NSW through an information request made under the Government Information Public Access (GIPA) Act. Click to access […]
The mail is that the Jason Grimson trained District Attorney broke out of his stable on the afternoon of the Black’s A Fake, and was running loose and unrestrained around the track. Apparently the horse had skin off him all over as a result of the incident. Grimson didn’t make any report about what happened […]
A month or two ago we wrote about the safety risks of running greyhounds on the grass track at Bundaberg, and called for the Queensland authorities to immediately shut racing down there on animal welfare grounds until the course is remodeled and rebuilt with a sand surface. Sadly for the dogs that continue to get […]
Kenneth Buxton and Bianca Reed The disgraceful duo pictured above, former greyhound trainer Kenneth Buxton and his girlfriend Bianca Reed, are among the worst animal abusers that the Victorian Racing Tribunal in Victoria has ever seen. These are not my words. They’re those that the eminent Chairman of the Tribunal Justice John Bowman wrote in […]
In February of this year Victorian trot trainer Paul Cauchi was convicted in the Sunbury Magistrates court on counts of failing to provide veterinary care to two horses, and aggravated cruelty to the pair. Cauchi’s offending was particularly egregious. One of the victim horses had two catastrophically fractured legs and burn lesions to both; the […]
The accused trained, managed and housed harness racing horses at his registered training establishment. The accused noticed that a colt with very swollen legs. The colt was unable to weight bear on either leg and was unable to stand comfortably. The accused did not provide the colt with any veterinary treatment after he noticed that […]
Frankie Ferocious wasn’t the only Jason Grimson trained horse that failed miserably at Albion Park last night. Hot and Treacherous totally bombed out too, with the triple Menange winner who started favorite in the million dollar Nullarbor slot race at Gloucester Park in April performing miserably in the Mr Feelgood behind Leap To Fame to […]
For months Frankie Ferocious was odds-on favorite to win last night’s Group 1 Rising Sun at Albion Park, and given his victories in the Group 2 Victorian 4YO Bonanza in the summer and the Group 1 Chariots of Fire in the autumn, so he should have been. In fact on those performances his right price […]
