Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It is important to remember that proceedings such as these are not penal in nature. Unlike penalties in criminal cases where concepts such as retribution, denunciation and rehabilitation are of importance, civil penalties such as these are imposed primarily, if not solely, for the purposes of deterrence – Racing Appeals Panel* The Stewards inquiry into […]
Everyone is talking about the ride of James McDonald on Via Sistina to win the Cox Plate and rightly so, for it was a super steer that won the mare the race. Mark Zahra rode the perfect race on Buckaroo too, following J-Mac throughout the race and hooking around Via Sistina in plenty of time […]
I don’t know who this Joel West that posted this rubbish is, but the bloke’s a clown. Ryan Maloney didn’t ride the favorite Royal Mover dead. He gave it a peach of a steer. Sure he didn’t pull the whip on it but what would have been the point? You could see that the horse […]
Tres Manifique means most magnificent. The luck of the horse by the same name in race 3 at the Valley wasn’t magnificent. It was tres bloody awful. Everything that could go wrong did. First it misses the start. Then Ben Melham stands over Tres Magnifique’s rider Mark Zahra and slams him onto the fence. The […]
It is difficult enough to get a quaddie even when you have five in each race, so imagine how tough it is for one jockey to ride all four winners in a row. Carleen Hefel did it today at Ballarat. And did it the hard way too. None 0f her winners were favorites. Two of […]
I want to thank Maureen (Haggas) for giving me some advice because I’ve been too busy watching myself win the $20m TAB Everest, the richest horse race on turf in the world, to go back and watch a replay of Lake Forest. From what I can remember though I was following the eventual winner in […]
Mrs. Haggas reckons that Zac Purton rode against her instructions to get stuck into the horse. She says with scorn that Purton just sat there like a sissy. We must protest. Take a look at the ride of Ciaron Fallon on the horse in last year’s Golden Eagle (above), and Zac Purton’s ride on it […]
William Haggas wife and assistant trainer Maureen gave Zac Purto0n one of the greatest sledges and sprays that anyone has ever given a jockey for his ride on Lake Forest in the King Charles III at Randwick last Saturday. Mrs. Haggas certainly wasn’t backward in coming forward with her poor opinion of the ride. Here […]
QRIC lawyer – Anderson is his name – is making a goose of himself here. He wants to keep debating principles that the Panel have already decided in the Chris Watson case and reaffirmed in its decision in Rob Thorburn’s appeal. The bloke even gets the Thorburn penalty decision wrong. Finally Judge O’Brien gets tired […]
This lawyer for the QRIC can’t take a hint, even though Judge O’Brien has given him plenty, and wants to keep arguing why the decision on Jeff Mackay is relevant to Mitch Goring’s matter, even though it so clearly isn’t and the Judge has told him so in no uncertain terms. Blah blah Mackay, blah […]
