Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember we told you about 2 years ago that how Phoenix Thoroughbreds – one of Australia’s biggest yearling buyers – was a money laundering scam washing money from a global crypto scam? No-one listened at the time, not the newspapers caught hold of it a couple of weeks after we published our story, and claimed […]
How can a track that has had multi-millions spent to reconstruct possibly be as bad as Ipswich? It simply defies belief. This short clip is from the Stewards vision of a race on Wednesday. They are throwing up clods like they do a heavy. No-one has come out between races to plug the surface. The […]
Detective Constable Daniel Pool is the NSW cold case copper whose investigative genius has put Chris Dawson in the dock fighting for his life on a charge of murder. If it was your life on the line you’d like the police officer putting it there to get the basics right, wouldn’t you? But hey, what’s […]
You called any suggestion of a confirmed sighting as a cruel hoax, didn’t you? Yes. You just decided that you didn’t accept their evidence, is that the position? No, I decided that their evidence wasn’t sufficient to get to the level of it being a confirmed sighting, in my view. So again, it was any […]
In highly unusual circumstances, it has been revealed that the author of The Teachers Pet podcast, award winning journalist Hedley Thomas, this week gave evidence at the murder trial of the accused Chris Dawson under what is known as section 128 certificate, which is legal protection against self-incrimination. Under the terms of the section 128 […]
I am no fan of abortion, with my personal view being that I wouldn’t do it, and would die inside if my Maggie did. Thankfully for both of us, she shares my views. But neither of us are saying we’re right, for it is not our place to do so. We make our personal choices […]
Robert Silkman is the number two witness in the Teacher’s Pet trial. He says that the accused man Chris Dawson – the ‘Teacher’ – asked him if he knew anyone who could knock off his wife. Silkman says the conversation they had during which Dawson put this question to him was on the flight home […]
The NZ Harness Racing Owners Federation (NZHROF) has quite properly raised concerns about two licensed participants being allowed to continue to work in the industry at a time that they are separately and jointly facing charges of indecent (sexual) assault against a victim who most the industry are aware is also an industry participant. NHROF’s […]
Disgraced harness racing trainer Cam Jones has formally lodged his plea of guilty to charges of doping one of his horses on the way to the races a couple of months ago. He will be sentenced on Friday, with his inevitable disqualification and loss of his license probably the least of his worries right now. […]
Adelaide trainer Chris Bieg is set to face court in October after he was granted bail at Christies Beach Magistrates Court on Friday. Bieg, who is facing 12 serious charges which are not related to racing, had been remanded in custody earlier this week, but was successful in his bail application on Friday morning. His […]
