The Hard Done By Kid – Greg Bennett and the Lies They Told About Him
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What a Goddamn Joke
The NSW Stewards would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Blaike McDougall sat up on the leader Demi God ib the last at Albury and almost cost it and the punters who backed it the race. In another stride it would have lost. The rules say that a jockey must ride their mount out to […]
The Deadest Drive You Will Ever See In Your Life
Take a look at this drive of Adam Sanderson’s on the long odds on favorite Bling Your A Game in race 7 at Redcliffe last Friday week. It the deadest thing you have ever seen in your life. Bling Your A Game was backed from $2.40 into $1.45. Sanderson stopped it. Not just from winning, […]
QRIC Grant Special Permission For One Suspended Animal Abuser to Another Convicted Animal Abuser – Where is the Integrity in That? (FIRST PUBLISHED JAN 2025)
Rule AHR90A – Trainer Licence (2.6) An applicant for a trainer’s licence Grade A must have satisfactorily completed all training modules applicable to a trainer’s licence Grade B and held such licence for not less than 12 months unless the Controlling Body decides otherwise. We told you last week about how QLD trot trainer Ryan […]
J-Mac Sticks It Up Joao – And the Hong Kong Stewards Stick it Up the Rules
Hong Kong Our mate Lucky Lingard on his ever impressive website letsgohorseracing.com.au has highlighted James McDonald’s ride on Romantic Warrior in the Group 1 Champions and Chater Cup at Sha Tin last week, and called it into question. In support of his proposition that J-Mac was let off light Lucky has reproduced the thoughts of […]
Integrity Starts With a B – And is Spelled BS – Part 1 – Words
Prominent harness racing trainer Nigel McGrath granted ‘partial return’ to industry after cheating ban Story by Sam Sherwood, Radio New Zealand; 16 June 2025 At the last Harness Racing New Zealand AGM a rule change was passed allowing any banned party to apply for an exemption if they have served at least half of their […]
Integrity Starts With a B – And is Spelled BS – Part 2 – Deeds
The two men you see in the picture are the at the time CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand Brad Steele (BS) on the left in the bomber jacket, and Nigel McGrath, the disqualified serial drug cheat that the HRNZ board under Steele’s leadership changed the rules to allow to participate in the sport despite […]
Isn’t it Great to Be a Koala?
Can anyone tell me what Matt Elkins did different in this race at Albion Park yesterday to Angus Garrard than what Garrard did to Elkins in the race that we wrote about at the same track on Saturday night? It looked exactly the same to me. The outcome was different though. No action was taken […]
Luckie’s Luck Runs Out
Luckie Karabitsakos in a Melbourne Cup winning greyhound trainer who has had an enormous amount if success. He is also a performance enhancing substance cheat and a personal user of illicit drugs, which when added to his already volatile character makes him a hothead and a quite difficult cat to deal with. Justice John Bowman […]
An Abuse of Power IMO – A Classic Case of Stewards Over Reaching
Trot trainer Scott Garraway’s horse threw 17 positive swabs to cobalt, with some of the readings as high as 1300 ug/ml, which is extraordinary when you consider that the threshold is 100 ug/ml. What is even more extraordinary is that after his first positives came back from the lab, the trainer was given the option […]