Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Brazilian genius jockey Joao Moreira slips back into Sydney to take three rides for the Waller stable on Wednesday at Canterbury. The Magic Man’s return to ride in Australia has flown largely under the radar, but with the spring carnival approaching and Moreira’s services highly in demand wherever he goes, this could be the sign […]
I’ve been following the trots for half a century, and never in all that time have I ever seen a betting market anything like what the one in race 5 at Cowra yesterday. $6.50 the field. Can you believe it? Some things never change though. The bookie’s we betting 126.7%. It seems the Japanese weren’t […]
Disgraced trot trainer Greg Bennett has lost again in his latest of a long string of attempts to regain his license, with the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal last month ruling that it has no jurisdiction to hear his attempt to appeal Harness Racing NSW’s refusal to hear his application to be relicensed, leaving him nowhere […]
What happened in race 2 at Newcastle can be shown to you because out of consideration for the injured parties the replay has not been published, which is a decision that we agree with. We can tell you from the Stewards report that Zara Fitzpatrick’s drive Solar Express was checked while racing ungenerously and fell, […]
Seaton Grima had two horses running in race 1 at Newcastle last Friday night, Supa Dupa Luce and Rakadan. Supa Dupa Luca was drawn gate 2, and on the back of an excellent second at Menangle behind the smart mare Sweet Coco at its first-up run in Australia it was sent out the $1.55 favorite. […]
Ben Sarina has been warned off since the 25th of January 2013, almost 12 years. His warning off is indefinite. That doesn’t mean that its forever, despite the way it’s currently being applied. Indefinite means lasting for an unknown or unstated period of time. Which means it can end. The Special Stewards Panel (SSP) that […]
‘Mad’ Mark Latham has raised questions on notice in NSW Parliament this week about what he describes as the injustice wrought upon warned off former trainer/driver Ben Sarina during the Green Light Scandal. Latham wants to know: (a) Why Sarina remains warned off when he was never criminally charged in Green Light, whereas other participants […]
PETER V’LANDYS: Absolutely. My evidence today will absolutely destroy what they’ve written in that letter anyway because none of it is true. The other thing that was said in Parliament, which is completely false, is that I interfere in stewards’ inquiries. In the 20 years I have been at Racing NSW I have not interfered—and […]
Hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly went missing from one of NSW’s most successful country race clubs and it only narrowly avoided going under after Racing NSW granted it the benefit of the doubt. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the mysterious case of the missing cash, which an auditor suggested was misappropriation but the club […]
Racing NSW has collected training cost information from a cross-section of trainers in order to estimate the total payments made by owners for racehorse training, veterinary and spelling costs. Assuming a horse is in work eight months and spelling four months each year, a survey of Metropolitan, Provincial and Country trainers reveals the average annual […]
