Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We didn’t want to write it for legal reasons last week when we broke the story, but everyone now knows that it is jockey Sariah Champkin who has been charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm on a fellow licensee and another of willful damage by Queensland Police following the alleged stabbing incident […]
The mail out of Tabletop Mountain is that the racing licensee who is alleged to have stabbed a fellow participant in the back with a pair of scissors during a dispute at a property across the road from Clifford Park on Thursday and it is claimed threatened to slit her throat was arrested by police […]
HIS HONOUR: Corruption in sport is an ongoing problem and noted recent examples have included cricket, rugby league and horse racing in its various forms. I have before me an offender, Paul Anthony O’Toole, who, through his corrupt conduct, has tarnished the reputation of a particular form of horse racing, harness racing in New South […]
Every person commits a serious racing offence within the meaning of these Rules, who, in New Zealand or in any other country, either by himself or in conjunction with any person does or permits or suffers to be done any act which a Judicial Committee deems fraudulent, corrupt or detrimental to the interests of harness racing. Every […]
Former Adelaide gallops trainer turned stable hand and trackwork rider Todd Balfour’s 5-year disqualification for pulling down the pants of a Racing SA Compliance Officer who was conducting breath testing after the Kangaroo Island races and fully exposing the official from the waist down is utterly justified, and he was lucky not to get life. […]
An NZ harness racing licensee has been found guilty of one charge relating to sexual offences. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, will be sentenced in May. What will happen to his license between now and then in unknown, but after the guilty finding one would hope that […]
The verdict in the case of the prominent NZ harness racing licensee charged with sexual offences against boys in his care is expected to be handed down tomorrow. It is said that the licensee blamed the boys for initiating sexual contact with him. What a load of crap. This sort of defense just goes to […]
Sydney punter and former brothel owner Eddie Hayson has been arrested by NSW police over the alleged importation of 16kg of methamphetamine and 5 kilograms of MDMA. Police picked up the 55-year-old year-old on the Gold Coast on Tuesday morning where he is expected to appear in Southport magistrates court. Officers will allege the interstate […]
When asked if he was compassionate to the people he was arresting, Rolfe said he did his best until the person resisted arrest or fought him. “After they stopped fighting me I was compassionate for sure,” he said. Asked if that changed at any time during his three years in the police force, Rolfe replied: […]
A forensic hunt is on for the $100 million missing from a Ponzi scheme that ripped off bikies, bookmakers and AFL heavyweights. Accountants have been called in to trace the money lost in the scam dubbed worse than the Melissa Caddick con. The stratospheric losses were discovered when AFL powerbroker and Melbourne lawyer John Adams […]
