Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 22nd of December 2021 a NSW trot trainer named Michael ‘Mickey’ Muscat raced a very appropriately named pacer called Knight Walker in the first on the card at a TAB meeting at Bathurst. The horse went exactly as its name suggested, like a busted arse. It sat in the death and got beaten […]
Ryan Hryhorec is driving the horse behind the leader. He pushes out underneath Mario Borg in the black and white with red cap outside him, and sends the Maltese Falcon skidding sideways, straight into the horse outside him. They lock wheels and that’s their race done. Then he tries to do it to Dani Hill […]
The integrity of Queensland racing has been questionable for a long time. Strange decisions are being made by Stewards. Swabs are rarer than a Penny Black stamp. Even stranger things are being ignored. Just when you thought the huge concerns couldn’t become any deeper, yesterday at the Sunshine Coast they did. Watch the replay […]
Really? No precedent cases? I did a simple Google search, and I came up with 10 pages of them. This is nonsense. So is the notion that the race day Stewards have no responsibility for the right horses racing as themselves in the right races. That is absolute baloney. Making sure that there are no […]
Have a goddamn look at this. And try not to vomit. It is the Launceston trots on the 13th of February, and this is the feature race, the $20 000 Sinbad Bay Final. Todd Rattray – the driver of the leader Magician, in the red and white – has taken his foot out of the […]
The head on vision from the Launceston trots on the 13th of February 2022 is there on the Tasracing website. It is there for race 5 too. But it has mysteriously disappeared for race 4. The race in which a horse named Magician was backed to win more than $10 000. One and the same […]
Stewards considered the serious consequences of the shift from MAGICIAN, that being that the interference to MAYLEEJAE EAGLE which resulted in the gelding falling clearly prejudiced its chances and therefore invoked AHRR 66(g), the pertinent part of the rule being that a horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a lower finishing […]
Once upon a time innocent trainers like Darrel Graham and our man Moods used to get tipped out for long periods of time for throwing positive swabs to cobalt salts. It was a travesty of justice, and it was only through the big man’s outspoken criticism of the stewarding practice and Daz’s determined legal resistance […]
Last year Ryan Duffy copped a 12 month DQ from the Victoria Racing Tribunal helping his mate milkshake a horse, taking the bolt when the Stewards turned up and caught them in the act, and lying through his teeth about the whole thing. He deserved the DQ too. The RV Stewards thought Duffy deserved more, […]
Earlier in the week we wrote about the outrageous form reversal of the Chris Waller trained Merimee, the horse who went from winning like Winx at a Saturday metro meeting in Brisbane to running second last in a race several grades lower on Wednesday at the Sunshine Coast. As you can see from the fluctuations […]
