Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What does this police raid have to do with yearlings sold to a buyer on tick at the Sydney APG yearling sales in 2020? Where are these yearlings now? Have they ever actually been paid for? Why are none of them registered as racehorses? Is a harness racing licensee somehow embroiled in the arrests? Do […]
Once upon a time the boxer Michael Katsidis was a world champion. Then his beloved brother and gun jockey Stathi died of a drug overdose, and Mick lost the plot. He got on the gear too, and it’s all been downhill from there. I won’t go into Mick’s history, other than to say it is […]
A phone tap has just been played of a conversation between Maguire and a bloke named Leong (not sure of the spelling), who is a squillionaire Asian property developer. Maguire has an unmistakable voice on the taps. It can’t be anyone but him. He admits that it is he. Maguire tells Leong that he has […]
Remember what I told you 6 weeks ago about the dog Daryl Maguire rolling over on Gladys? He wasn’t on the witness list. Then today he suddenly appears. As the witness before Gladys. He’s on for one day. What is going to happen is that his secret statement given to ICAC in return for an […]
We told you that Lisa Curry would get justice for her friend Shan Lewis, who died by his own hand but was really killed by the demons of a child molesting monster from the past. That monster is now being extradited to face the music. Good on you Lisa. I’d have you in the trench […]
One night I am standing in front of Mindy’s restaurant on Broadway, thinking of practically nothing whatever, when all of a sudden I feel a very terrible pain in my left foot. In fact, this pain is so very terrible that it causes me to leap up and down like a bullfrog, and to let […]
If Group 1 winning jockey turned Group 1 winning trainer Mark Riley is not the hardest done by man in racing, he is at least in the top 5. Riley is serving an effective life sentence for the grand crime of presenting a horse to race when it was close to over the TCO2 limit. […]
I want to tell you a story, a true one. In 1999 I took a job as a union organiser in Central Queensland. It was a step up the career ladder for me, and a foot in the door, so when I was offered it I grabbed it with both hands and off we – […]
BY now you have probably heard the Shane Lewis story, or one of the terrible bit of it anyway. Former Olympic swimmer. Abused by a Swimming Australia funded elite performance coach. Told the peak body of the sport. They did nothing. Killed himself. Young kids left without a dad. It is tragic but all too […]
We started writing about Phoenix Thoroughbreds and telling you that they were money launderers 14 months ago. You can read those stories here. The brilliant UK racing writer William Jones – who I met and spoke to last night after reading his work – does it a whole lot better. His books about drug use […]
