Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This article is from this month’s edition of Harness Xpress. If you changed the name from RIB or QRIC or Racing Victoria it would read the same. Therein of course lies the problem. Coppers running racing are not the answer. It’s not really their fault – you can’t turn a bulldog into a hound just […]
Good morning My name is Archie Butterfly and I author the racing website peterprofit.com As you are aware, I wrote the story about the deaths of the three Telfer trained/Stonewall Stud owned pacers that died on the track in the space of just months. I also wrote about a 4th incident involving a horse from the same […]
What you see above is what Lochinvar Art’s driver Leigh Sutton told the HRV Stewards when asked about his drive on the horse that set the race up for Nathan Jack and Copy That on Saturday night. The first bit is true. Sutton didn’t start serving it up to the leader and favourite Bondi Lockdown […]
In December 2020 the South Australian Chief trot Steward issued this media release declaring that it was his intention to charge Amanda Turnbull with breaches of the rules for allowing her then unlicensed boyfriend Nathan Jack to train her horses that were contesting the rich Southern Cross race series in Adelaide. It was an egregious […]
It has come to our attention that despite the rape and sexual assault charges laid against stood down former Albion Park CEO coming to broad public attention, the Brisbane race caller David Fowler continues his long standing tradition of dining at a well known Hamilton restaurant with the man accused of these heinous acts each […]
I have been going there from about the time I could walk, but I’ve always hated racing at Bundamba, the track better known these days as Ipswich. It’s a shithole. Dud horses, dud facilities, dud committee, dud track. So it’s fitting that, after a long sojourn during which many tried to rectify the faults of […]
The strong mail from the south is that controversial Tasmanian Chief Steward (presently stood down) Steven Shinn is returning to QLD, Our people tell us that he is leaving Tassie, and has been re-employed by the QRIC. Believe it or not – at this stage I am struggling to – but we are also told […]
It’s a funny place Queensland, probably the only racing jurisdiction in the modern world of digital cameras and computerised finish results that employs as many judges to sit in a box together at a meeting as it does Stewards to run the whole shebang. That was the situation at the State’s Saturday metropolitan meeting at […]
Did you see race 6 at Randwick yesterday? The Stewards obviously didn’t. Watch Tommy Berry’s ride on the horse on the outside that ends up running second. It’s a longshot who is the stablemate of the heavily backed favourite and ultimate winner positioned directly on its inside. Do you reckon Berry rode this horse out […]
Hugh Bowman was outed for 13 days for failing to ride Lost And Running out to the line. Bowman pleaded guilty. He had no real choice. The Stipes in Sydney don’t lay charges unless they are going to convict you on them, and fighting it would have cost him the discount for an early plea. […]
