Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by Robert Craddock and Iwan Jones: Courier Mail, 22/7/26 A talented harness racing driver swears he will never return to Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley nightclub district after an alleged random assault left him unconscious for five hours. Nathan Rothwell, 23, of Mount Hallen in the Brisbane Valley, was allegedly coward-punched outside the Hey Chicka! nightclub […]
There is something decidedly queer about Ipswich. It looks alright but it gives off this smell, or this feeling to be more correct. A feeling that the joint just ain’t no good. As long as the horses and people could be safely evacuated, and relocated to some place like Calliope or Taroom, I reckon it […]
Jockey cum racing photographer Jason Hoops Hoopert is back in the Mt Isa Magistrates Court for what must be the 3rd or 4th time as his charges – believed to be drunk in charge of an e-scooter – slowly wind their way through the judicial system. The wheels of justice don’t turn fast.
Story by Lucy Rutherford, Adelaide Now A horse trainer who trafficked millions of dollars of drugs for a sophisticated enterprise has been jailed for over a decade. Andrew John Benz (pictured 2nd from right appearing on the SA trot TV show with the hosts and another guest), who police say also went by the AN0M […]
Wayne Francis Innes – aka Mirrors – is a career criminal, fraud mainly with a little bit of drug dealing thrown in on top, although he has never been pinched for selling ‘CD’s’, which was code word for gear. Mirrors has served two jail terms for his frauds, the most recent for bribing senior Ipswich […]
The woman in the middle in the picture that leads this story is Maree Crabtree, the mother who was today acquitted of topping her violent, abusive, drug addict son by overdosing him with a poisoned smoothie. This picture is taken as she is leaving court after the verdict. The blonde woman on Crabtree’s right is […]
I’ve been inside the one time heritage listed house in the background of the picture, before someone burned it down. They never did find the torch man, but the immolation of the house sure was handy for the Brisbane Racing Club that run the racecourse and employed Bill Shuck, because it allowed the club to […]
Bill Shuck was convicted of defrauding his employer Racing QLD by improperly colluding with a career criminal and wire wearing copper’s dog named Wayne Innes, who went to jail for a second time for his crimes. We do not like Innes at all. He threatened this author and his family and expected us to back […]
Wayne ‘Mirrors’ Innes (above), lifelong criminal, fraudster, one time corrupt copper turned dog in his own, former drug dealer, police informer, thief and mate of Bill Shuck. Still allowed to own race horses and go to the track despite doing stretches in jail for his ripping racing and others off We don’t have a picture […]
Danny Nikolic has had the larger part of an annus horribilus. He has been booted out of the racing game. His poor beloved mum has been afflicted by the terrible Huntington’s Disease. Older brother John was banged up in a Fijian hell hole for 23 years. His sister-in-law was forced to lie low to avoid […]
