Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sariah Champkin continues without a ride on Saturday, making it three weeks since she has last had a mount after being charged with serious criminal offences related to her alleged stabbing of another racing participant. But why do the QRIC continue to refuse to announce publicly whether she is allowed to continue to ride if […]
Hey look, David Reynolds is back in court again. He’s landed the daily double. Archie I will tell you what the cowardly narcissist bastard has done. His day of madness and misbehavior started on Saturday when he kicked his jockey out of his car on the way back from the races, leaving Scott Sheargold stranded […]
Stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele has been sighted recently frequenting the Gold Coast race track on Saturdays. The word is that after falling out with his Brisbane based clique of friends and supporters over issues relating to a girlfriend of one of them, and having been banned from a number of his local […]
We didn’t want to write it for legal reasons last week when we broke the story, but everyone now knows that it is jockey Sariah Champkin who has been charged with one count of assault occasioning bodily harm on a fellow licensee and another of willful damage by Queensland Police following the alleged stabbing incident […]
The mail out of Tabletop Mountain is that the racing licensee who is alleged to have stabbed a fellow participant in the back with a pair of scissors during a dispute at a property across the road from Clifford Park on Thursday and it is claimed threatened to slit her throat was arrested by police […]
HIS HONOUR: Corruption in sport is an ongoing problem and noted recent examples have included cricket, rugby league and horse racing in its various forms. I have before me an offender, Paul Anthony O’Toole, who, through his corrupt conduct, has tarnished the reputation of a particular form of horse racing, harness racing in New South […]
Every person commits a serious racing offence within the meaning of these Rules, who, in New Zealand or in any other country, either by himself or in conjunction with any person does or permits or suffers to be done any act which a Judicial Committee deems fraudulent, corrupt or detrimental to the interests of harness racing. Every […]
Former Adelaide gallops trainer turned stable hand and trackwork rider Todd Balfour’s 5-year disqualification for pulling down the pants of a Racing SA Compliance Officer who was conducting breath testing after the Kangaroo Island races and fully exposing the official from the waist down is utterly justified, and he was lucky not to get life. […]
An NZ harness racing licensee has been found guilty of one charge relating to sexual offences. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, will be sentenced in May. What will happen to his license between now and then in unknown, but after the guilty finding one would hope that […]
The verdict in the case of the prominent NZ harness racing licensee charged with sexual offences against boys in his care is expected to be handed down tomorrow. It is said that the licensee blamed the boys for initiating sexual contact with him. What a load of crap. This sort of defense just goes to […]
