Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We made a horrible and very much regretted error in a story published overnight. In writing the story I somehow mixed up and mistook Lance Holberton for another licensee, and in error attributed to him that licensee’s past problems with substance abuse. That of course was both totally incorrect and utterly untrue. Mr Holberton has […]
Aidos, the Greek goddess of humility (pictured above) In late 2025, I published a number of articles about an investigation relating to levamisole. In those articles, I made a number of statements which were critical of Mr Buckman, the CEO of Harness Racing NSW, and Mr Prentice, the Chief Integrity Officer of Harness Racing NSW. […]
Blood drowned brain dead bits It has come to our attention that we made an ignorant error in our story about apprentice jockey Tom Orr being fined $200 for not claiming his allowance at Thangool on Saturday. We said that Racing QLD and the QRIC were negligent for allowing a 1.5kg claiming apprentice like Orr […]
A recent story of ours may have given rise to an impression that the Springston Hotel in the Selwyn District was trading outside of its licensed hours of 7.00am to 9.00pm on Saturday just gone. This was not intentional, and is untrue. The Hotel did not trade past 9.00pm on that night, and does not […]
On 15 August 2025, peterprofit.com published a post titled ‘Stewards on the Punt’ (the ‘story’). This story has since been removed from the site. We made an important factual error when we published that story, which requires immediate correction. We retract what we wrote in the story about the prohibitions on the betting activities of […]
In our story this morning about Jim Murdoch KC representing Darren Weir in his latest appeal we wrote that the Magic Man had taken over from Damian Sheales, who we wrote had been ditched by Weir. This was factually incorrect. Damian Sheales at no stage represented Darren Weir. Sheales represented Weir’s co-accused Jarron McLean and […]
The QRIC were kind enough to contact us this morning to point out an error in the letter to the editor that we published this morning from Vance from Virginia about Adin Thompson’s suspension for blowing over 0.02 at the races not being recorded. A report was indeed published about the matter. It was a […]
Back in April last year we wrote a story about country trot trainer Dwayne Brown’s horse Princess Remi having thrown a positive swab to a painkiller. The story was correct that the Stewards had summoned Brown to explain why the anti-inflammatory painkiller Naproxen had been found in his horse’s swab. That they did indeed. The […]
In our Tips and Rumors column published last week we asked certain questions – based on information received from three different sources – that led to a direct inference that former leading country trainer David Reynolds had been arrested and jailed for offences relating to drugs. This was and is utterly untrue. David Reynolds has […]
Yesterday we published a letter from a reader we dubbed ‘Pablo the Punter’. Unfortunately a number of the contentions made by Pablo in their letter were incorrect. The former trainer turned punter Justin Abbott is not the brother of the NSW trainer Brad Abbott. QLD trainer Dayl March is not in any way associated or […]
