Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Simply Sam is the pacer at the centre of the current controversy about Maurice McKendry’s drive on him when the Magic Man got charged and convicted of not giving giving him every reasonable and permissible chance to win a race at Alexandra Park a few weeks back. On that occasion McKendry took his back to […]
Mark Jones, back in the halcyon days when he could still fight at Super Middleweight I am not trying to be rude here, but if you a horse pulling the weight of the modern incarnation of former World Champion driver Mark Jones, you’d want to gallop too. About three of the past four trotters he […]
We have been contacted by a number of readers sharing their thoughts with us about the Cam Jones case in New Zealand in which he charged for pre-race administration of an unknown substance. We thought we’d share a couple of the more thought provoking views ————————————– G’day Archie The RIB report into Cam Jones being […]
The decision in the RIB case of Cam Jones and the needle has been handed down, and the bum has been disqualified for 21 months. Without giving too much away, that is the least of his troubles right now. Good bye for the moment and good riddance. The Canary – Andrew Fitzgerald – has been […]
We wrote yesterday about the boy racers and bogans ripping up the closed down trot track at Forbury Park, and suggested that it would be a great earn if the near-defunct club adopted it as a business strategy. Who were we to know that the Highlanders supporters were merely ripping off an idea from the […]
Earlier this week we published a story based on information gleaned from a story written by journalist Cameron Barclay and published in the Otago Daily Times. In our story we repeated the assertion made by Mr Barclay – who was present at the Stewards inquiry into the relevant rule breach hearing – that Jones had […]
We told you to watch the two new horses from the Woodend Beach trainer Matt Purvis’s stable in their races at Addington yesterday. Silly us. They were a false blind. It was his two other runners we should have been watching. They both won. The Hornet was the one they backed. It sat 3-wide into […]
We told you earlier about how the RIB Stewards claim they conducted 59 surprise stable inspections on Monday and Tuesday. If that is true, why is it that the following trainers from Woodend Beach knew they were coming, and had time to put things that shouldn’t be found in stables into the locked boots of […]
Some people say that Woodend Beach trainer Matt Purvis doesn’t give his horses a bit of the old Tally Ho treatment, and do you know what, I’d love to believe them. I can’t though, because everything points in the opposite direction. Victor Bravo is the perfect example. Until Purvis and a group of others bought […]
There are 8 hours in a Stewards working day, which adds up to 16 hours in two days, minus paid mornind and afternooin tea breaks which brings the day down to 7.6 hours, or 15.2 over 2. To conduct 59 stable inspections in those 2 days would mean that an inspection was carried out every […]
