Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
What happens in New Zealand happens in Australia too. The cases this insider turned activist Becks Nairn is talking about are true. Each of them can be found in Steward’s reports. Nairn is a very knowledgeable, presentable and articulate spokesperson for those who seek to have racing shut down. She doesn’t fit the vegan activist […]
Hi Catherine (Clarke, QRIC Commissioner) Is animal welfare no longer a priority for QRIC? Judging by the actions or should I say the non action by stewards at today’s Eagle Farm it seems animal welfare is far from a priority. Firstly in the mounting yard before race four Jackson Morris after mounting Crafty Eagle unnecessarily […]
Tasmanian trainer fined $2,000 for animal cruelty after repeatedly whipping racehorse Magistrate Evan Hughes said trainer Liandra Gray had already experienced a form of punishment from ‘unwanted media attention’ over the case. A Tasmanian racehorse trainer has been fined $2,000 after pleading guilty to animal cruelty for whipping a horse more than 40 times in […]
