Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mark Zahra’s decision to serve the 7-meeting suspension handed to him for breaking the whip rules in the Caulfield Cup between Cox Plate and Derby Day, allowing him to ride at both, simply goes to illustrate how bloody stupid the Australian suspension rules truly are. Now those who can count will realise that there are […]
This is the 5th race at Addington last night. Keep your eyes on the horse in the green and white 4 back the fence. Watch closely it’s inside wheel. Driver Bob Butt clearly breached the rules here, and his horse KD Hawk should have been disqualified from its placing in the race and he should […]
The Chantal Turpin trained Zena Rhayne Bow is clearly a very promising young pacer, as evidenced by the mile rate she ran of rarely seen in that grade of race 1.55.1 in winning a maiden at her first start at Albion Park yesterday. Those in the know backed her from $2.80 into odds on too, […]
As we have written a few times, leading NZ driver John Dunn seems to make a habit in recent times of calling in sick to Sunday meetings after having a big drink at the pub or stables the night before. We’ve lost track of the number of times it’s happened now, but it’s far too […]
On a day of all round excitement and intrigue yesterday at Randwick, one of the most interesting things to see was the appearance of the recently retired former Hong Kong chief steward Kim Kelly on the panel for the day headed by his former deputy Steve Railton. The vastly experienced and hugely respected Kelly, who […]
Mission of Love was backed off the map in race 6 at Eagle Farm yesterday, firming from $5 early into odds on. It went down. The question is did the punters get handled by the jockey Jaden Lloyd? It was a very strange ride indeed. Lloyd walked the horse out of the gates and took […]
Tasmanian Greens address to parliament 28 March 2023 Hi all, I am pleased to announce that we have been able to secure experienced steward Ross Neal to take on the position of Regional Manager North. Ross is currently employed as the Racing Integrity and Stewards Manager with the Office of Racing in Tasmania. Previously Ross […]
That Luke McCarthy is driving Encipher in the Vic Cup not Spirit of St Louis is outrageous, and an open and obviously accepted violation of the rules. Under those rules a driver must – not maybe, MUST – drive horses in the following order of priority. A horse they own and train A horse that […]
Young trainer Cameron Ross seemed to have been terribly harshly treated when he copped a 17 month disqualification after one of his horses threw a positive swab to Dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory drug. Ross was a first offender, and stuffed up by nebulising his charge with Dexapent – a drug containing the substance – within the […]
Prior to All Clear, the Co-Trainer of the second placed TURN THE PAGE NZ G Bond requested to view the photo finish image and he also subsequently lodged a protest against the first placed AUGUST MOON, alleging that the driver of the filly, G Hall Jnr used his whip in contravention of R156 (2)(a) in […]
