Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Last week an English trainer named Johnny Farrelly was permanently excluded – warned off – from racing after being found guilty of sexually abusing a 19-year-old apprentice jockey under his control and care. To protect the identity of the victim the reasons for his exclusion were suppressed, but that is what they are. The Australian […]
I was a union official in a former life, and during that time I dealt with literally hundreds of cases in which workers were accused of serious misconduct by their employer. Without exception each of those who were found guilty of the allegations were summarily dismissed, meaning they were sacked on the spot. It’s the […]
We all know about Ben Currie and why he got disqualified. His stable staff administered boost paste – a totally legal sold over the counter at Garrards Horse and Hound amino acid tonic, with huge therapeutic and health benefits – to a horse named Eight Over on the morning of a race, which was in […]
Well here we were after Saturday night thinking that we’d ushered in a new era of intelligent Stewarding in NSW. How foolish we were. It wall just an illusion, an mirage in a syringe filled desert drenched with drugs. Targeted, effective and efficient swab sampling is one of the keys to overcoming the corruption crisis […]
This is the worst Steward’s decision in the world, and the dodgiest one too. A teenage kid claims more allowance on runners at a non-TAB meeting than he is entitled to, by mistake. The mistake is not his, it is the Stewards. The Chief Steward had issued an edict some time back decreeing that apprentices […]
How does this work? Four horses get beaten 45 metres or more in the last race at the Hobart trots on Sunday night. Three of them are trained by Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole, the man who kills horses and then gets them cut up to be fed to dogs. One of them, Keep Playing, got beaten […]
The NSW Stewards have ordered Jason Grimson to place all of his horses in the retention barn from 12.00pm Sunday (today) until 8.00pm on Saturday 12 June. That means the horses are already there. But Houston, we have a problem. Grimson has only one horse entered to race this week. That horse is Hidden Courage, […]
This wise missive was sent in by a regular reader in response to our story about the Steward’s mistreatment of apprentice jockey Cody Collis Hello Archie Your article today articulates exactly what does happen in that and a lot of work places. The little vulnerable guy gets the arse kicking when really he is learning, […]
The incident above occurs, where the driver of the horse in the white forces out underneath the driver of the horse in red when they have no lawful right to do so, and in the process they flatten the horse out wide in green and send it into a mad gallop. The driver in red […]
The entire harness racing Stewards panel in South Australia should be sacked and replaced tomorrow. These so-called integrity officials lack the competence, confidence and courage to perform their jobs to the requisite standard required to maintain public confidence in the sport, and their ongoing control of the regulatory functions continue to drag it into the […]
