Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s a tough beat this one if you were on the inside in the 3rd race at Bathurst last night. To the naked eye as they crossed the line it looked for all money as if it had hung on. Then in the photo print it looks like it had dead-heated. The judges didn’t agree., […]
A horse trained by John McCarthy threw a positive swab to cobalt in October 2018. McCarthy was charged with presenting it to race while under the influence. Five years later he was found guilty and given a DQ of 12 month. John McCarthy appealed, and his sentence was reduced to 9 months. He appealed again […]
Ben Talbot is the Chairperson of the Wagga Greyhound Club. He is also the brother of Adrian Talbot, the person at the centre of the storm surrounding the discovery of the carcasses of 500 dead horses buried on or next to his property outside Wagga. Adrian Talbot is widely said to have been slaughtering brumbies […]
In January 2018 a greyhound named Better Cruise trained by Ben Talbot raced at Wagga. Better Cruise tried to fight or bite another dog during the race, an action which is known as marring. After being inspected by the on-course vet after the race, the dog was found to have no injury or physical problem […]
This is the head on Steward’s footage of the final stages of yesterday’s Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.. The outside horse won by 0.1 lengths, which is a nose in my book and a short-half head in Darren Flindell’s. Either way, it’s a bee’s dick. The outside horse came in a smidgen and they scraped […]
Tamworth trainer Dean Chapple has this week been disqualified for 2 years on a charge of presenting one of his horses to race (and win) with the painkiller Meloxicam in it’s system. https://www.hrnsw.com.au/uploads/files/integrity%20notices/240419%20mr%20dean%20chapple%20inquiry%20conducted.pdf It’s an extraordinarily heavy sentence for a substance breach offence that usually attracts just fines. Look at some of the comparative recent […]
The man who operates a southern New South Wales property that he says is at the centre of an investigation into hundreds of dead horses is denying any wrongdoing. On Wednesday, Wagga Wagga City Council revealed it was leading a joint investigation into the discovery of more than 500 horse carcasses on a property near the […]
The man suspected to be responsible for, or involved in, the deaths of the 500 horses whose remains were found in a dry creek bed just outside of Wagga is Adrian Talbot, who early in 2023 was deemed an exluded person for the purposes of rehoming racehorses in NSW, an action that banned him from […]
Isn’t it curious that the brumby rehomer who ‘saved’ 500 horses – the same number that were found dead on the property of unlicensed slaughterman Adrian Talbot, the brother of the Wagga Greyhound Club’s president Ben Talbot – is friends with the Wagga rachorse trainer Trevor Sutherland? In 2020 Sutherland was disqualified for 3 years […]
A lot of trot people won’t like this, but the new cognitive testing requirements introduced by Harness Racing NSW are a hugely positive thing. I grew up watching and worshipping Tke King Wally Lewis, the greatest rugby league player of my lifetime. One of the toughest too. Wally’s ability to take a hard knock and […]
