Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
JAMES TREASURE A primary school teacher was jailed in 2019 after he filmed children at a Sunshine Coast beach and superimposed images of himself and children into sexually explicit films. The Brisbane District Court heard at the time the man had also made sex tapes with a blow-up doll wearing a uniform from his school, […]
Until a few weeks ago this used to be the town of Maryinka in the Ukraine. It was a little town of 10 000 people. They lived in houses. Their town has schools, and shops, and churches, and parks and swings and slides. It had pretty gardens too. It doesn’t anymore. War. What is it […]
This is Maryinka this morning. Just weeks later. Putin killed it. Razed it to the ground. Scorched earth it is. Everything is gone. But where are the people? The children who played in the park on the slides and the swing. Are they gone too? War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it […]
Have you graBurgered anybody? I hope not, because it means violently seizing them and threatening their arm. GraBurgering has only been a legal expression for a couple of weeks. Judge Dean Morzone KC – solo without the Sunshine Band – invented the term, which is a great achievement for QLD ‘cos most Maroons hardly know […]
This is a spreadsheet of the top ten trainers and drivers in QLD over the past ten years. You can’t see it yet, but it tells a lot of tales. Tales about match fixing charges, license bans, stable changes, cobalt, stewards, coppers, lag merchants, TCO2 and a whole lot more. The full picture will blow […]
There are about 4500 patched bikies in the country and a number of them own racehorses, the training fees they are paying could come from (proceeds of) illicit drugs or extortion. But racing doesn’t know that until they (the bikies) have been convicted of something. Racing must do better with the due diligence of (racehorse) ownership in […]
Kerry Ann Morris used to be Kerry Ann Turner, until she got married. Her husband is Robbie Morris. Many say that he is the trainer for the stable too. Robbie Morris’s godfather is his dad Peter Morris’s best mate. John Dumesny is the fellow’s name. He’s the CEO of Harness Racing NSW (HRNSW). HRNSW are […]
There are plenty of slippery eels in the Fitzroy river that runs alongside Rockhampton’s racecourse Callaghan Park. On Archer day this year there will be one on land up on a stand calling out prices. If he can get a Queensland license. I guess we will find out if the QRIC are serious about applying […]
A lot of people have short memories. Not me. Want to know a little bit about the Waterhouses? Then watch this ABC documentary from 1986. It’s fascinating viewing. Click on the link and enjoy. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-08/horses-for-course—1986/2832202?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
A harness racing trainer injected a horse with vodka and then tubed it on the morning of the biggest trotting day of the year as he felt “behind the eight ball”, and just wanted to do his best. Phillip Burrows was disqualified from racing for 10 years by the Judicial Control Authority on Tuesday. The Herald can […]
