Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We don’t write a lot about Northern Territory racing, but given that we have been railing against jockeys that fail to fully ride their mounts out to the finish, and the fact that the latest example of it cost one of our readers a juicy First 4 on the weekend, we thought we would tell […]
The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission is established by the Racing and Wagering Act (NT) 2024. Its purposes are to: promote probity, integrity and fairness in the racing and wagering industries and among its participants; establish a fair and efficient system of governance over the racing and wagering industries protect the welfare of animals […]
1. A v BETCHA Lodged 15/11/22 Decided 26/11/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 2. E v ENTAIN Lodged 15/7/20 Decided 22/11/24 Time Taken: 4 YEARS 4 MONTHS 3. F v PLAYUP Lodged 29/7/22 Determined 24/10/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 3 MONTHS 4. L v ENTAIN Lodged 3/1/23 Determined 22/10/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 9 MONTHS 5. […]
The members of the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission are: Alastair Shields (chair) Cindy Bravos (deputy chair) Susan Kirkman (member) Scott Perrin (member) Rachael Shanahan (member) Ian Curnow (member). Below are the commission 2024 meeting dates: Thursday 1 February Thursday 7 March Thursday 4 April Thursday 2 May Thursday 6 June Thursday 4 July […]
The last time we heard of Darwin jockey Raymond Vigar he was being sentenced to a 12 month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to four counts of offending against a woman, including two assaults that the judge said left the thug’s victim with extreme psychological issues. The judge found that the the jockey had no insight […]
You don’t see this every day. A racing authority advertising to employ a jockey. Thoroughbred Racing Northern Territory are doing it. This is not a bad idea to address a shortage of jockeys. Directly hiring and employing a rider and attracting them to the role by offering a guaranteed base salary of $1400 a week […]
David ‘Layoff’ McLauchlan is the Melbourne rails bookie who did a stack betting against the credit punter David Ng and then unsuccessfully taking him to court trying to get Ng to pay his tick. In the process McLauchlan set a losing precedent that left both himself and other bookies across Victoria open to prosecution for […]
A number of readers have been asking us who exactly these co-Chairmen of the VBA are. As we don’t know them personally, we cannot tell you first hand, but what we can do for you is to use their professional Linkedin profiles to give you a picture. Chris Lester (pictured at top) started his business […]
Thoroughbred Racing Northern Territory has responded quickly to out request for information about the 16 retired or deceased horses from a 2022 race meeting that we selected at random. All of these 16 horses are accounted for and records have been kept. This is an outstanding result. We thank TRNT for being so responsive, and […]
Dear Mr Hensler Thank you for email yesterday alerting me to the error of my story, with regard to TRNT not publishing rehoming statistics. I apologise for that. Since reading your email I have studied the Off The Track website and pages intently, and greatly admire the program and its operation. If of course what I am […]
