Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What do you do for a living? I’ve been in Transportation and Logistics since retiring from the US Navy. In 2011 my wife and I took a chance, quit our jobs and struck out on our own. We started with two drivers and have grown it to 100 strong. Still a very small trucking and […]
There is weird tendency in racing around the world to smash jockeys for using jiggers, and pretend that the trainers didn’t know. It happens everywhere, just like this one below Jockey Tomas Mejia receives 10-year suspension, $5,000 fine from stewards at New Jersey's Monmouth Park for possession of an electrical device in 7th race Sept. […]
Racing Victoria Stewards are informed just prior to the running of race 6 that Alligator Blood, who is due to run in the very next race, has arrived at the Sandown track displaying a skin irritation. We are not told what type of irritation or what caused it. We don’t know who told the Stewards […]
Trainer Frankie Stockdale is a recovering alcoholic. There is no cure for alcoholism. Abstinence is the only answer. Stockdale knows it better than anyone. Two weeks prior to Xmas in 1999 he jumped in his car at 3.30am after an all night and into the morning booze session and drove home, or tried to anyway. […]
Referee Grant Atkins allowed a blatant forward pass last night from Parramatta that resulted in the first try. It won the Eels the match. Grant Atkins father Graeme Atkins played for the Eels from 1975 to 1982, and again from 1985-1987. He is a life member of the Parramatta club. One of the boys. What […]
This article is from this month’s edition of Harness Xpress. If you changed the name from RIB or QRIC or Racing Victoria it would read the same. Therein of course lies the problem. Coppers running racing are not the answer. It’s not really their fault – you can’t turn a bulldog into a hound just […]
Good morning My name is Archie Butterfly and I author the racing website peterprofit.com As you are aware, I wrote the story about the deaths of the three Telfer trained/Stonewall Stud owned pacers that died on the track in the space of just months. I also wrote about a 4th incident involving a horse from the same […]
Rule 111. (1) A change in the ownership of a registered horse or notified foal shall be made in accordance with this rule. (2) Within 7 days of agreeing to the change or prior to the horse next racing whichever is earlier or such other time as the Controlling Body may determine the transferee shall […]
We have spent the past half hour discussing the Summit Bloodstock scam with one of Queensland’s highest profile taxation specialists, the principal of a well known accounting firm that boasts a number of very well known racing and sporting identities among their clients. It just so happens that they are an avid peterprofit.com reader, and […]
What you see above is what Lochinvar Art’s driver Leigh Sutton told the HRV Stewards when asked about his drive on the horse that set the race up for Nathan Jack and Copy That on Saturday night. The first bit is true. Sutton didn’t start serving it up to the leader and favourite Bondi Lockdown […]
