Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer Tom Bagrie is driver John Dunn’s cousin, which means that trainer Robert Dunn is Bagrie’s uncle. Robert Dunn of course was earlier this week appointed to the board of the Auckland Trotting Club. The club runs Alexandra Park, the track where the rort above occurred. Tom Bagrie didn’t lodge a stable return because he […]
A pacer from the Riverina named Malinjang has 13 starts for four different trainers over 18 months. The best it can do is run two 3rds. Its average beaten margin over the 13 starts is 67.5 metres. Malinjang gets sold to prominent owner Mick Falvo, and he sends it to his favourite trainer Alex Ashwood. […]
Dr John McKenna is a the race day vet at the Devonport and Launceston trots. He is also believed to be Ben Yole’s vet too, at least for part of the time. If that information is true, you would imagine that it would have been declared to Tasracing as a conflict of interest, for it […]
Hot off the press is that there have been huge changes today to the management and the board at the fast drowning in failed property development debt Auckland Trotting Club. The Club CEO Mauro Barsi – the man who has presided over the wholesale mess for the past two and half years – has resigned, […]
It is not being reported by the mainstream media in the US, but the word out of the Big Apple from our sources is that the architect of the wholesale doping ring, the crooked vet Seth Fishman, has attempted suicide on the last day of his drugs in racing fraud trial. Fortunately for the cause […]
Cross Counter wins the 2018 Melbourne Cup. Was it doped? Is the Pope a Catholic? An FBI wiretap played to the jury on Monday in the trial of corrupt vet and doping mastermind Seth Fishman contains clear suggestions that Godolphin had been operating a $2 million doping program based out of the Dubai Equine Hospital, […]
This ad is up on Harness Trading Ring as we speak. The screenshot was taken 90 seconds ago. $25,000 THE FORTUNATE SON NR74 7yr old roll with joe gelding fig form this season – 11 Won on Tuesday in 1.50.4 after racing on Saturday so 2 day backup, also won last week in 1.52 Very […]
If you owned a horse who had just run 1.49.4 at Menangle with the driver swinging against it, and the Miracle Mile was only 28 days away, would you be selling it for just $25 000? Not in a million years. Yet David Grima is selling The Fortunate Son for exactly that, as we speak. […]
Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes They send you down to war And when you ask ’em, “How much should we give?” They only answer, “More, more, more” Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son On the same day that our research about EPO cheating in racing was published world-wide, it was fitting that the pacer […]
The Black Horse is newsletter written by leading Irish racing writer Will Jones, author of a series of books of the same name about drug use and corruption in UK and Irish racing, particularly within the global Coolmore racing and breeding operation. Will’s hard-hitting quarterly newsletter is read by tens of thousands of racing participants, […]
