Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Is that a big bad sail sticking up there? Matches the message I guess. There are 10 000 people inside the gates of Warrnambool having a ball of a time on the fang, punt and piss. Standing outside are 10 middle-aged people being uptight, sipping Kobucha water, and telling them that they are bums. Anyone […]
Trainer Bryce Stanaway has been disqualified for three years after refusing to allow a Racing Victoria vet to provide emergency care to his horse on a racetrack. Stanaway was found guilty of seven misconduct charges at the Victorian Racing Tribunal in August, after Racing Victoria stewards alleged the Torquay-based trainer threatened officials and refused to […]
What Tim Williams said about the filly with the fractured pastern is irrelevant, it’s the refusal to allow the vet to examine the horse that is. What is it with this trend from the big stables to refuse the services of the appointed race day vets these days?? And why do the Stewards allow them? […]
The Stonewall Stud owned/Telfer trained 2YO filly Sweet Maggie May broke her leg in race 4 at Addington last night, or to be precise she fractured her left hind pastern, which is much the same deal. Reports from the track are that the connections wouldn’t allow the on-course vet to inspect the filly, insisting that […]
Racing Victoria presented only one expert witness in the Darren Weir case, an Equitation Scientist (whatever that is) named Dr Andrew McLean. Dr McLean’s role in the case was to demonstrate that the use of a jigger on a horse in training had the potential to corrupt the outcome of a professional thoroughbred horse race. […]
We are not comfortably satisfied that the outcomes of the relevant races were in fact affected. Therefore, the cases of the Stewards succeed or fail on the “likely to affect” provision. It in turn succeeds or fails on the finding of the capacity of the jigger treatment given to the horses to affect the outcome […]
In a decision that has left many shaking their heads in disbelief, Darren Weir has escaped the serious charge of attempting to corrupt the outcome of the 2018 Melbourne Cup, with the judge in charge of the VRT – a former shareholder in horses trained by Weir – describing his use of a jigger on […]
Ben Talbot is the Chairperson of the Wagga Greyhound Club. He is also the brother of Adrian Talbot, the person at the centre of the storm surrounding the discovery of the carcasses of 500 dead horses buried on or next to his property outside Wagga. Adrian Talbot is widely said to have been slaughtering brumbies […]
In January 2018 a greyhound named Better Cruise trained by Ben Talbot raced at Wagga. Better Cruise tried to fight or bite another dog during the race, an action which is known as marring. After being inspected by the on-course vet after the race, the dog was found to have no injury or physical problem […]
Every horse trainer of either code in New Zealand is up in arms about the ridiculously light 4-month disqualification that the Racing Integrity Board have handed down to the animal abuser Kurtis Pertab, and quite rightly so, for this vile grub should have been banned for life for what he did, or at least outed […]
