Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The news filtering through from New Zealand this morning is that Operation Inca – the long running police investigation into race fixing at the trots – has today finally come to an end, with the last of the criminal charges against harness racing participants being discontinued this morning. This finally brings to a conclusion the […]
A prominent Northern Rivers gallops trainer was arrested yesterday and charged with two counts of rape of a minor. In an eerie coincidence the man, who was formerly based in Queensland, is believed at one time to have trained horses for disgraced Albion Park CEO Scott Steele. His alleged victim was aged 13 and 14 […]
In the same week that it’s former general manager Mark Bayliss indicated that he would plead guilty to a charge of racing related fraud, the Albany Racing Club (ARC) 2023/24 annual report has been released to members, with the financial statements revealing that the club lost over $120 000 last year and is trading while […]
Dear Peter Profit I want to share with you my thoughts and those of some of my long time mates about the recent shocking publicity surrounding the management of Albion Park trots. The other day I opened the Courier Mail and there large as life was a big picture of the previously stood down CEO […]
The last time we heard of Darwin jockey Raymond Vigar he was being sentenced to a 12 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of offending against a woman, including two assaults that the judge said left the thug’s victim with extreme psychological issues. The judge found that the the jockey had no insight […]
Jockey Justin Huxtable has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and he deserves every bit of what he gets and what’s coming, for I know who the girl is that he’s circulated the private intimate images of to his mates, and trust me when I tell you that while she’s just […]
South Australian gallops trainer Ryan Balfour’s escalating pattern of erratic and aggressive behavior has taken a new twist after he was this week arrested and charged with serious criminal trespass and assault against his equally unbalanced estranged brother Todd, himself a former trainer who shot to national infamy this year after he pulled down the […]
JASON PIPER Central QLD jockey with a predilection for sex with teenage transexual street kids. In 2005 when he was 25 years old Piper stabbed one of them to death, a 16yo urchin named Ronald Brown. Jailed for life. The QRIC granted Piper a trackwork riders license when he was released on parole after serving […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has been advised that a licensed jockey was arrested by Queensland Police for an offence against the Criminal Code. Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Catherine Clark said that the participant’s licence has been suspended immediately. “QRIC’s role is to maintain the integrity of racing so the jockey will be stood down […]
Sharing intimate images without consent It is a crime in Queensland to share an intimate image of someone without their consent in a way that could reasonably cause distress to the other person. While often referred to as ‘revenge porn’, sharing an intimate image without consent covers many behaviours and they are not always motivated […]
