Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There has been very strong mail floating around in Kiwi racing circles that current HRNZ CEO Garry Woodham is abandoning the sinking ship and moving over the ditch to take up a very senior role in racing in Australia. Many have this new job for Woodham as being the CEO role at Harness Racing Victoria, […]
The Brisbane Racing Club gets Rudolph (aka Matthew) the Red Nosed Reindeer, who was tied up in attempting to fix Sam Kavanagh’s problems with cobalt charges. Harness racing gets Scott Steele, the sacked BRC employee who subsequently lands on rape charges. It gets Steve Shinn who has been punted more times than a Sherrin too. […]
Five minutes after we published the previous story about Ryan Wiggins ride on Silver Galaxy in the 2nd race at Doomben today, the Stewards Report went up. Wiggins got away with knocking the horse in the green over completely. WTF? The Stipes say that the horse raced greenly and ducked in of it’s own accord. […]
Toni Austin has been charged by the QRIC Stewards with providing them false or misleading information in relation to the Birdsville jigger affair. This perfidy occurred some months ago. Last Saturday Toni Austin won a share of the $116 000 first prize cheque for her horse Echo Point winning the Country Cups Challenge at Doomben. […]
We told you a year ago that octogenarian driver John Stariha was a danger, a menace and a pest on a trot track, and that he should be banned from driving in harness races for life. The authorities didn’t agree, although God knows why, for Stariha’s total incompetence in the sulky has long been on […]
Todd Austin trained Echo Point until Ric McMahon got with the jigger that they he wanted him to use in trackwork on ‘one of ‘ his Birdsville Cup runners. I use the inverted commas because not only one Cup runner was jiggered, both were. The photographer just didn’t catch the other one in her photos. […]
Stewards have slapped the husband and wife duo of Todd and Toni Austin, along with jockey Ric McMahon with a string of charges relating to the alleged Birdsville Cup jigger scandal from August this year. Stewards allege the trio were involved in the scandal ahead of the famous bush meeting on August 30, when a […]
There is a real problem in the jockey ranks when you hold a TAB meeting with a maximum of 9 acceptors in any race on the card, and you can’t get enough hoops to ride the horses. That’s exactly what happened at Rockhampton on Saturday afternoon, when six of the horses on the six-race card […]
The 12Y0 veteran galloper Hard Stride stepped out in the Country Stampede at Doomben today. I’m not sure if the horse has got a penchant for Diana Ross hit songs or whether his trainer was just confused, but the one thing I do know is that the QRIC Stewards aren’t doing their job very well. […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
