Warn Him Off
Stood-down Albany Racing Club boss Mark Bayliss was yesterday fined after pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to gain a benefit for another by fraud. The target of the attempted fraud was Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA), the State’s principal racing authority. Mark Bayliss has reportedly agreed to resign from his position at […]
Match fixing charges dropped after too many court delays
By Alecia Rousseau The Crown has been denied a chance to prosecute two men accused of match fixing after a court found lengthy delays breached the defendants’ right to be tried without undue delay. Brent Wall and another man were among several people arrested in 2018 as part of Operation Inca, a 17-month police sting looking […]
Operation Inca Over – All Charges Dropped
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 […]
Horse Trainer Charged With Child Rape
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 […]
Albany Race Club Records a $120 000 Annual Loss – And a Presently Unaccounted For $75 000 a Day Increase in Costs Per Race Meeting
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 […]
A Reader’s Thoughts on the Restoration of the Albion Park CEO to His Post
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 […]
NT Racing Give a Convicted Woman Basher His License Back
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 […]
Justin Huxtable Gets Hammered and Decides to Drive Straight Through a Hotel Boom Gate – Now He’s Charged With High-Range Drink Driving Too
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 […]
Down, Down, Down – The Rapid Decline of Ryan Balfour’s Life and Career
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 […]