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Top jockey Matthew Cameron has been stripped of his racing licence in the wake of his conviction for indecent assault. The 35-year-old was sentenced to 90 hours’ community work and ordered to pay $900 to the victim, on Tuesday in the Hamilton District Court after pleading guilty to the booze-fuelled assault. New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing […]
in 2021 Kiwi jockey Matthew Cameron lost his license after being convicted of the criminal offence of indecent assault. After spending more than 2 years out of racing, New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing controversially granted Cameron a special exemption from the rule that prohibits people with criminal histories from being licensed, and gave him his riders […]
Star jockey Matt Cameron will return to race riding tomorrow after being granted an exemption from his racing ban for an indecent assault conviction. Cameron had his riding licence revoked by New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing after being convicted of indecent assault on an adult male in July 2021. Cameron, who is openly gay, was sentenced […]
The mail from over the ditch is that Ben Yole was not the only trainer overworking his employees and instructing them to inject runners on race day. A certain leading stable based at sand land in Woodend Beach was said to be doing it too, and still is. We don’t know what was in Yole’s […]
By Jo Lines-MacKenzie Waikato Times A Waikato thoroughbred trainer who has been accused of mistreating horses by hitting them in the face and flipping them onto the ground has been charged by the racing industry. John Malcolm of Cheltenham Stables in Cambridge is facing 12 charges laid by the Racing Integrity Board (RIB). Chief executive […]
Champion New Zealand driver Blair Orange is smiling like a man who has just won lotto, and who could blame him? His son Harry has just won on Ilsas Girl at Alexandra in his first ever race drive. It was a pearler of a steer by the young man who is bred to be a […]
We told you recently about star Kiwi 4YO Don’t Stop Dreaming’s change of stables from Mark and Nathan Purdon to Hayden Cullen, and then we told you about its rumored change back. It now seems now that there is much more to the saga than meets the eye. The mail is that DSD – which […]
Just a matter of weeks after Don’t Stop Dreaming was transferred out of the Nathan Purdon barn and into Hayden Cullen’s, we are told that he is moving back into Purdon’s care. What has prompted the change of mind by the owners of the star 4-year-old is unknown, but we are told that it is […]
Kiwi trainer Mark Jones had to wait a while for it to happen, but with Tempo Warrior’s win tonight at Addington he has finally cracked the 800 career win mark. It’s well known that I am no big fan of Jones, but credit where credit due, 8oo wins is a great achievement and not many […]
The talk in NZ racing circles is that a new player is about to enter the Kiwi legal bookmaking market. This new player’s called Betcha, and the whisper is it’s set to commence operations sometime in the next 8 weeks. Our spies who have told us these things are asking how it can be? After […]
