Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So the punters who bet on You And I in race 5 at Eagle Farm today do so thinking that the horse is wearing blinkers and a tongue tie, because the Racing Australia and RQ websites don’t tell them otherwise. The horse’s trainer Jackson Morris doesn’t present the horse to race with either. While I […]
Further to our earlier story about the appointment of Roddy Butt as an NZRIB harness racing steward, we are advised that measures have been put in place to ensure that the conflicts we envisaged in the story will not occur. Butt is presently undergoing 3 months training in the South Island, and after that is […]
See the Steward R. Butt? That’s Roddy Butt. Brother to Anthony, who is now a driver in the Canterbury area, and Chrissie Dalgety, who is a trainer in partnership with Cran Dalgety and mother of gun driver Carter. Roddy Butt is related to all the Butts – Chris, David, Kimberley, Bob and more – and […]
See the screenshot at the top? That is the Racing QLD policy on harness horses qualifying to race in this State. To be eligible for a mobile start race a horse must – MUST – qualify in a mobile start trial. And to take it a step further they must run a mile rate of […]
Want to see the most blatant and absolutely disgraceful breach of the harness racing whip rule in the past decade? Then watch this. The driver is Corey Johnson, the South Australian whose family has been the target of clandestine fire bombings and graffiti attacks in recent months. If you didn’t know better, and realise that […]
Nostra Bella is or was an absolute walker that at it’s last 4 starts had finished as follows: Last of nine beaten 8 lengths in a 3YO Handicap at Geelong Last of twelve beaten 8 lengths in a 3YO Handicap at Flemington Second last of eight beaten 4 lengths in 3YO and up at Flemington […]
Ben Thompson is a very, very good jockey. He currently sits at number 3 on the national premiership with 92.5 wins for the season. So how do you explain his ride on Redford in the 7th race at the Gold Coast yesterday? Pilot error? A simple misjudgment? Or something a whole lot different again? Thompson […]
Lorenzo Carbone is a registered Victorian greyhound trainer and owner, who has most of the dogs he owns trained by others. He is also a man who is active on Betfair. During the year 2021 Carbone had seven of his dogs race for one or more of these other trainers. Most if not all of […]
The recently named former law boss who repeatedly exposed his female staff to porn on his computer has been working as an adjudicator and steward at the Racing Integrity Board, Stuff can reveal. Damian Botherway – the former principal of a Waikato-based boutique commercial law firm and a premier division rugby union referee – was named on Monday as the […]
QRIC Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly has responded at his earliest possibility to our story questioning why and how a participant disqualified for serious animal welfare offences leading to the preventable death of at least one racing animal, and at least two other non racing animals, could possibly be allowed to be involved with the auction […]
