Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
US jockey Paco Lopez did his very best to bring racing into disrepute on the weekend at the Parx track in Pennsylvania. The video of his wanton cruelty has gone viral around the world. Lopez had been immediately and indefinitely suspended. His ultimate stretch will be long.
Retired jockey James Winks was seen out earlier this week at the Breakfast Club in Prahran (pictured above) enjoying a convivial lunch with winning rider Ben Allen and others to celebrate Pinstriped’s stirring win in the Memsie. Perhaps it was a bit too convivial at that. Nothing good ever comes from getting on the turps […]
Wayne Hawkes has ridden in about as many races as we have, which gives him no more or less say on the Jamie Kah ride than we have. Our view is clear. Kah is culpable, and she should cop it for failing to take the run. Hawkes disagrees. He reckons that there was no fault […]
A barrister charged with drug trafficking was allegedly found with an Aladdin’s cave of drugs and paraphernalia inside his $800-a-week apartment with bay views. Anthony Grant, 44, was allegedly running a trap house-style illegal pharmacy inside his 16th floor apartment, where police uncovered erectile dysfunction medication, an array of prescription drugs and an imitation penis, […]
If you are going to try and pull a swiftie on the Stewards by slipping them a doctored medical report, it would be sensible to check that the doctor who you are pretending wrote the report is still in business first. Trackwork rider Kirsty Mason isn’t semsible. She submitted a Health Assessment Results Form dated […]
Have you ever seen a stuff-up like the start of race 6 at Doomben yesterday in your life? The rider of Glorious Ruby gets hurled out the back of the stalls. There is shouting and commotion everywhere, and the official behind the gates raises their hand to alert the starter, but it doesn’t work. Somehow […]
An article about the parlous finances of the Auckland Trotting Club written by Michael Guerin and published on harnesslink yesterday may be more skilfully written than ours, but it merely reflects what we have been telling you and warning about in the articles below for the past three years. https://peterprofit.com/category/auckland-trotting-club/ The ATC Directors whose grandiose […]
As reported by Michael Guerin for the NZ Herald, a crippling interest bill is threatening to cut into the future of northern harness racing as the code in the region undergoes a major rebuild both on and off the track. Harness racing in Auckland is set for a racing boost for the next few seasons […]
THIS PUNTER RECKONS THE ‘SULTAN’ ISN’T WORTH A ‘PEANUT’ SPEAKING of tipsters, the rising star of the Racing.com ranks – the man they call ‘The Sultan’ – copped a deserved backhander from MICK the MAD PUNTER from MELBOURNE. ‘His name is David Strehlau and he emerged from oblivion to claim fame as a great tipster with […]
It was astounding to see a plunge on the failed 2o23 Melbourne Cup favorite Vauban in the Ascot Gold Cup at Royal Ascot last night. Whoever backed it from $9.oo into $6.00 is an absolute bloody idiot. You could see from last year’s Cup run that Vauban is all spick and no span, and that […]
