Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Josh Gallagher is a talented reinsman, there is no doubt about that, but more often than you should with an Inter Dominion winner you really do have to sometimes question have question his drives. Last night in the first at Penrith was one of those occasions. Gallagher was on the 3rd favorite Bara Riley, drawn […]
We’ve been contacted by a number of readers who are eager to learn why John McCarthy has finally started serving his disqualification for a cobalt positive almost six years after his horse threw it. Apparently they can’t find any mention of the reason the sin binning has now taken effect on the HRNSW website. We […]
The defense lawyer for Ben Yole’s float driver in the terrible accident last year that left 2 young stable workers with permanent injuries has told the court that his client and the 4 other Yole employees in the car towing the float had worked from 7.30am on the day before the crash through to 1.45am […]
On a day of penalties for careless riding at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, Michael Rodd received two suspensions, one of them 8 days for causing interference in race 2, and the other 12 days for causing interference in race 8. These were separate and distinct cases of careless riding, and the penalties were stand alone. […]
It is a strange protest decision this one. Kaleb Williams, the driver of the horse in the yellow and brown, definitely shifts inside two marker pegs in the home straight and runs over a third. That much is confirmed by the driver being fined $100 for breaching the rule. 163. (1) A driver shall not […]
If you are going to try and pull a swiftie on the Stewards by slipping them a doctored medical report, it would be sensible to check that the doctor who you are pretending wrote the report is still in business first. Trackwork rider Kirsty Mason isn’t semsible. She submitted a Health Assessment Results Form dated […]
The Alex Freeman trained Jay Bee Jay Bee threw a positive swab 4-hydroxytestosterone after it raced on the 5th of May Both 2023. 4-hydroxytestosterone is an anabolic androgenic steroid. Under rule AHR 90AA(4) a horse who throws a positive swab to an anabolic androgenic steroid must be banned from racing for a minimum of 12 […]
Four months ago Frankie was the most ferocious dude in town, every town. Everyone was scared of his legendary speed and strength, which he employed to scorch sub 1.50 miles and crush his rivals into the ground. His powers won him the Bonanza and Chariots of Fire, two of the best 4YO races in the […]
Watch what Grant Dixon does here on Leap To Fame immediately after the starter releases the mobile arm and lets the field go. Dixon knows that Leap To Fame doesn’t have the gate speed to hold the lead from his pole draw, and knows that the horse who does Turnitup will take a sit as […]
Earlier in the week we told you about Chantal Turpin’s trotter Top Of The Moment’s atrocious record of galloping in races, and explained to you why he shouldn’t have been allowed to race in the Group 1 Trotter’s Cup last night, as under the usual practice the Stewards should have stood the horse down. You […]
