Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So The Lost Storm is scratched from Sunday’s heat of the Tasmanian Cup at Hobart because predictions of an impending real storm have caused the cancellation of his flight. Oh yeah, right. If that’s the case, how then are fellow Victorian runners in the heat Arggghhh, Modern Bliss, Hes Charlies Angel and Unltimate Vinnie able […]
At 6 out of 1o the past ten TAB gallops meetings in QLD there have been six horses pre-race swabbed. The most samples taken were 7, which was only once at Rockhampton, which makes sense because milkshake drenching has long been rife amidst the trainers at the track by the Fitzroy River. Three was the […]
How the hell did Sir Jason Grimson put an extra second of speed into the legs of Outside Fighter in the space of a few days, without making any gear changes. No notified ones at least. But there were gear changes, don’t you worry about that. It just wasn’t gear that you can see with […]
This morning we told you a story about Outside Fighter, the struggling slug that hadn’t run a place in it’s past 15 starts who had been transferred into the care of the world’s greatest trainer Sir Jason Grimson within the past 7 days. We said that if Sir Jason could conjure up a win with […]
A major scandal has erupted at the NZB Standardbred Yearling Sales in Christchurch involving a yearling, a leading breeder, a prominent South Island trainer, the biggest owner in New Zealand, and a mendacious dummy bid strategy to scheme him. The leading owner is Steve Stockman, the proprietor of Stonewall Stud (pictured sitting exactly where the […]
Can anyone tell me how the hell that jockey Scott Sheargold (pictured above behind the barriers yesterday at Cairns) went from riding a horse in race 1 at Cairns yesterday to working as barrier attendant for the rest of the day? Wouldn’t there be an ever so slight conflict of interest there? I am not […]
Can anyone in the world explain why a lowly Saturday night meeting at Toowoomba required six Stewards to officiate at it, when the main meeting of the weekend at Eagle Farm only needed four? An even better question is why six stewards could only oversee the pre-race swabbing of three runners on the card? Is […]
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, […]
How in a million years did Dee Roe, the horse behind the leader on the rail, not get disqualified from its 2nd place in the $50000 Simpson Sprint on Saturday night? It’s Aaron Dunn cheated. He drove Dee Roe inside the marker line for at least 100m, steering a path inside or over the pegs […]
If last night’s Albion Park stewarding is any indication, the current disenchantment-driven malaise in the QLD racing integrity ranks appears to be a virus that has spread like a web across all three codes. As at the gallops and greyhounds, far too few pre-race samples were taken from horses running at the meeting on which […]
