Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Every race on Breeders Crown Finals night at Melton on Saturday was a Group 2 carrying prizemoney of between $50 000 – $100 000. You would expect HRV’s swabbing regime employed on such a program to be at least the same level of class, of preferably for it to be Group 1 standard. Instead it […]
In what Chairperson of the Victorian Racing Tribunal Justice John Bowman said he hoped will be the final Ruling in relation to the matters of Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond, the pair of Darren Weir associates and co-offenders in the jigger case have learned of the start date for their disqualifications. The DQ’s – 9 […]
Watch the horse on the outside here BEWARE THE FURY in the 2nd race at Globe Derby last Monday. See it get a flying start. After viewing start the Stewards and the Starter claimed to be satisfied that BEWARE THE FURY had not been going forward until the barrier had been released. Yeah right. All […]
Roy Rogers, a handy man on the trigger who kills innocent horses without remorse These are the four young horses that WA trainer Roy Rogers killed by shooting them in the head. None of the deaths were justified. These horses weren’t sick or injured. None of them had a current racing embargo in place. They […]
Hello As you’re probably aware Ben Yole’s associate Robert Walters (pictured at top) is on the Tasmania unpaid forfeits list, which disqualifies him from participation in the industry. https://nre.tas.gov.au/racing/disqualified-warned-off-and-forfeits-list#Harness-ForfeitListbr He certainly can’t own horses and definitely can’t be in contact or associate with licensed people. Have a look at the ownership of Always Be Brendan […]
I’m just a mug punter having a few bets to try and scrape quid, not an expert horseman, but there are a few things you learn when you watch horse races every waking hour of every day. One of them is that when the Stewards approve a horse wearing ear muffs pre-race only to help […]
Hey Archie Help a bloke out here & tell me how a trainer charged with animal welfare breaches can be given a stay of proceedings that allows them to continue to train? The parasite I refer to is Nicholas Howlett (pictured), the same trainer who raced a dog with cocaine in it’s system and tried […]
We wrote a few days ago about how Jason Grimson had been the target of multiple recent without notice stable inspections by Stewards coming to out of competition swab his horses, particularly 4-6 day out from race day window withing which wise men say a sharpie must give their gee-gees the good gear. Imagine for […]
On Tuesday morning officers from the QRIC Compliance Assurance Team (CAT) rocked up to the stables of trainer Ryan Tyrell to conduct an inspection of his two runners at Gatton later in the day. What they found was a pair of horses looking like junkies who’d run out of veins in their arm and resorted […]
Watch driver Tiarna Ford’s use of the cane on the winner Hurricane Rock from the 400m mark on in the 6th race at Launceston on Sunday. Hurricane Rock’s the horse in the green and gold coming around the outside. Ford doesn’t just breach the whip rule, she smashes it into little pieces as she smashes […]
