Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There is matter coming up in the New Zealand courts on Monday week (14 November) that is going to send shockwaves through the harness racing world when it’s over. The accused person is a very well known trainer/driver. He has name suppression at present, but when the trial is over that will be lifted. What […]
I don’t think Australian’s understand the importance of the top hat at Royal Ascot. It is a crucial piece of attire required for the gentlemen to fit into place at the week-long festival of racing at the Royal meeting. Sir Henry Cecil’s top hat was perhaps one of the most famous and most regal head […]
The scheming, scamming, stooging fools in charge of the Auckland Trotting Club have called a meeting to boot New Zealand’s best investigative racing writer, the award winning Dr Barry Lichter, out of the club. What’s the Doctor’s alleged crime? Writing the truth about last month’s Annual General Meeting. WTF? Isn’t that what racing writers are […]
This is my wife Maggie’s great-grandfather, Herbert Charles Cull, aka Aiden De Brune, a once famous Australian author. From 1921 to 1924 he spent two years walking around Australia, becoming the first person ever to do so in the process. In 1920 he was working as a journalist at the Bunbury Herald when suddenly he […]
A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York on Friday convicted Lafayette Morrison of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery under the Hobbs Act in connection with the March 7, 2020 armed robbery of more than $280,000 in cash from Aqueduct. Morrison and co-defendant Lamel Miller were also convicted of brandishing a firearm, and Morrison of […]
Have you ever heard a greater load of bullshit in your life than the yarn that Brett Finch tried to sew at his sentencing hearing last week? He spent 3 months on a chatroom talking about doing horrible things to little children because he was an addict who was hoping to score coke. Seriously, that […]
It doesn’t matter what you think of Tony Mokbel, the law has to be applied equally to all otherwise it’s useless, and can be turned against you too. Even crims have rights, and they have to, like it or not. If they didn’t, then what if the cops decided you were a crim too? Don’t […]
I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead. But I don’t believe in deifying people who have passed either. In among all the praise for the now deceased trainer from people in the halls of power, just remember one thing. Mick Mair was charged with the sexual assault of a teenage stable employee in […]
DIFFERENCES in what an alleged sexual assault victim told police when they first met her and what police then put in a crime report have been highlighted on the second day of horse trainer Michael James Mair’s trial. Mair, 67, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage woman at a Little Mountain home […]
I felt bad for about 2 seconds when I heard the news that rider Ric McMahon had been charged with a criminal offence carrying up to two years jail for carrying the jigger at Birdsville. Then I reminded myself that jiggers aren’t parasols, and jockeys don’t carry them to look cool. They carry jiggers so […]
