Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Keith from QLD – punter, lawyer, father, lover, sportsman and mad Tigers fan (is there any other kind) – is a regular guest columnist on all things racing and gambling. Here he gets stuck into slack bookies who think your money’s theirs. This isn’t a story about how bookies have been robbed. This is a […]
Greyhound Racing Victoria have just released a set of proposed new national rules about screening limits for therapeutic substances, but if anyone out there can understand it without the assistance of a translator, then they are a whole lot smarter than me. The prosed new rules appear to set a limit under which the drugs […]
Victorian greyhound trainer Deborah Coleman was at one stage for many years a racing Steward at the dogs in NSW before she jumped the fence to pick up a collar and lead by joining the other side. It seems that the ex-stipe hasn’t quite realised that she’s no longer in charge of meetings any more, […]
The Group 1 Fanta Bale is the 2nd best staying series on the Victorian greyhound racing calendar, and is a race that is only won by the cream of the nation’s long distance running dogs. That makes Palawa King’s win last night in a semi-final of the series all the more outstanding. Have a look […]
Everyone’s favorite racing media personality Jason Bonnington has been absent from our screens since being forced to walk the plank from his job with HRV toward the end of last year, and a lot of readers have been inquiring after his health and wondering where he’s been. Well it’s now our great pleasure to be […]
I realize that a lot of dog folk have never been to university or past junior school, and that some through no fault of their own some are illiterate, so let me spell out what this part of the GRV plan means, and if you can’t read it get someone to read it out loud […]
Don’t believe a word of what you’re being told by GRV about it’s plan to make greyhound racing safer my moving all the races to one-turn tracks. It’s all just a smokescreen for the real plan. That secret plan is to force the Sandown and Meadows clubs to sell their tracks and the land they […]
The NSW Greyhound Integrity Commission has disqualified greyhound handler John Donald Wright, aka Winchester, from holding a license for three and a half years after the vice-president of the Canberra branch of the Rebels motorcycle gang pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to cultivate a trafficable quantity of cannabis, money laundering, possessing a prohibited weapon […]
The full decision of the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board to uphold the appeal of Anthony Bullock against his conviction for live baiting can be found at the link below. Click to access Appeal%20No.%2010%20of%202023-24%20-%20Bullock,%20Anthony%20-%20Reasons%20for%20Decision.pdf In summary, our observations are that: the Stewards stuffed up so did the pathologist who examined the pademelon tail found on the […]
In short: Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock has had a lifetime ban quashed after he was found guilty of being found in possession of an animal tail which could be used as a lure, in contravention of racing rules. An appeal board found it unproven the trainer knew the tail of a native marsupial was […]
