Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Stewards are satisfied with the bona fides of the ownership of beaten Stradbroke Handicap favourite Azkadellia, despite the stable having been indirectly linked to international conman Peter Foster. Foster’s niece, Arabella, has raced four horses under the title of Arabella Racing, all trained by Ciaron Maher. Attempts to link Foster to the ownership are understood […]
The Melissa Caddick inquest has turned into a circus. I guess her whole life always was. Her husband – widow/widower? – Anthony Koletti’s evidence is all over the place, and it is sort of sad to watch. A lot people, including some of the cops, thought/think that he topped her or helped her disappear. There […]
Trainer Frankie Stockdale is a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism. Abstinence is the only answer. Stockdale knows it better than anyone. Two weeks prior to Xmas in 1999 he jumped in his car at 3.30am after an all night and into the morning booze session and drove home, or tried to anyway. […]
I have been going there from about the time I could walk, but I’ve always hated racing at Bundamba, the track better known these days as Ipswich. It’s a shithole. Dud horses, dud facilities, dud committee, dud track. So it’s fitting that, after a long sojourn during which many tried to rectify the faults of […]
The NSW Commission of Inquiry report into Star City Casino is going to be handed down today. Everyone’s mail is that Star Entertainment are $1.10 to be found unfit to hold a casino license. That can be fixed simply in NSW by Star selling out, and someone else taking over. But what is the Queensland […]
Surely that couldn’t have been the two NZ trotting identities who are charged with sexual assault of a young female industry participant that were seen together drunk in a bar in the South Island over the weekend, could it? Don’t their bail conditions contain no contact conditions, and restrictions about intoxication? I guess the pair […]
