Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By a process of elimination we believe that we have identified the Luke McCarthy trained pacer that has thrown a positive swab to cocaine. The horse appears to be Kingmaker, which won races at Menangle on the 24th and 31st of May. (We had previously written that the positive occurred in QLD; that now seems […]
Watch the two horses at the rear of the field in this replay of the final race at Menangle last Monday. In particular watch the right hand of driver Josh Gallagher wearing the light blue cap. Go. Did you see it? Gallagher reaches his arm out and appears to grab the shaft of the sulky […]
The mail out of Menangle is that the Jason Grimson – Jack Callaghan trainer-driver partnership is over, and that Happy Jack will within the coming weeks be heading over to the United States to live and work for a while. How he was able to obtain a green card so quickly (if he has) suggests […]
General – Following the completion of Race 6 and prior to the declaration of All Clear, Stewards ordered the announcement of ‘Hold All Tickets’ to allow an investigation to be completed into the participation of CARRERA SUNSET NZ and BELLA DANZA. Following investigation which confirmed the identity of both horses and taking evidence from Drivers Mat […]
The mix-up in drivers for the Grimson horses in race 6 at Menangle last weekend raises an interesting question. What rule exactly did the stable representative and drivers breach? Julie Henman, Blake Jones and Matt Rue were charged with, and pleaded guilty to, a breach 0f rule 239A, which reads that: A person whose conduct […]
Two things happened yesterday that show up how differently racing jurisdictions deal with the same offence. Both involve cobalt. In Queensland thoroughbred race trainers Wil and Peter Hulbert presented a horse to race and win at Eagle Farm in late April with cobalt levels above the threshold in its system. Neither Hulbert was stood down […]
A fortnight ago we tipped you that barrister Tim Hale would become Chairman of the Australian Turf Clun and Caroline Searcy would be his deputy. We got the quinella. Hale and Searcy are now running the show. The ant-Rosehill sale brigade has won. So have Gai and Robbie Waterhouse. Robbie only had to wait 40 […]
Give the one time Caspar of Cabarita Beach directions to the nearest spray tan joint too while you’re at it ….. After almost two decades of having no bookies at the Albion Park trots except for the occasional appearance at carnival time by cherry picking NSW based bookmaker Ben Krahe, we now have World War […]
That’s how we feel about Mark Latham’s stinky kinky foecal fetishes too We told you many times during his demented attacks on PVL that Mark Latham was a shitman. If his ex-girlfriend is to believe he has proven us dead right. What sort of a bloke drops a turd on his girlfriend and then insists […]
At its final six starts before trainer Carl Edlridge transferred the 7yo pacer to Daniel Rowell to train, The Real Rocketman has been beaten 58m, 14om, 57m, 21m, 61m and 54m at third rate tracks in Goulburn, Canberra and Young. It’s career record was 63 starts for just 3 wins, the most recent of them […]
