Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is an enlargement of the photo finish print from race 8 at Newcastle on the 16th of June. There is separation between the 2 pacers on the line that is clear to see. The outside has won, do doubt about it all. Yet the race was declared a dead heat. How? There is a […]
See that bit of missing running rail at the 1300m mark in the first at Ballina on Sunday? Why wasn’t it there? It should have been. Whose job was it to check? They obviously didn’t, and it created a safety hazard that put horses and jockeys at heightened risk. That’s not on. We all make […]
The Supreme Court decision in the battle between Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club (ATC) over PVL’s crew’s decision to appoint an administrator to run the Sydney race club is difficult to understand if you don’t get the intricacies of the law, which I don’t but think I get the gist of, and even […]
Do you remember us breaking the story a couple of years ago about Adrian Talbot, the brother of the then Wagga Greyhound Club President Ben Talbot, and how he was killing horses and chopping them up to sell to greyhound trainers, including his brother, for dog food? Here are the stories if you have forgotten. […]
Readers will be very familiar with the spate of jockeys and trackwork riders in QLD who have been outed in the past 18 months for lodging doctored health reports required for their annual license renewals. We now it seems like the Cane Toad, dodgy health reports have become a cross border plague that has entered […]
Former harness racing identity Ben Sarina (pictured above) – currently warned off indefinitely, because only rapists, murderers and terrorists get minimum terms on their sentences – has won his appeal against a second disqualification imposed on him for his conduct in a private dispute between he and a then former Steward that culminated in an […]
This is what supposed rugby league expert Adam Pengilly wrote on Foxsports this morning, in an article bagging Laurie Daley and his blues. The bloke is an idiot who doesn’t people whose blood runs maroon. No mate, we don’t have JT, Cam, Cooper and Billy, Not out there on the playing field anyway. But we […]
This is a must read. Click on the images to enlarge.
The NSW Stewards would have to be kidding wouldn’t they? Blaike McDougall sat up on the leader Demi God ib the last at Albury and almost cost it and the punters who backed it the race. In another stride it would have lost. The rules say that a jockey must ride their mount out to […]
Hi Archie When you look at the photo finish the white line is not drawn on the correct angle. If you look at the photo finish mirror on the infield the line does not start in the middle of the mirror but well in front of it. Move it back to the correct position and […]
