Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Here are three different perspectives on the King of the Mountain at Toowoomba. The first two are from readers. The last is my own. Isn’t it wonderful that we live in a democracy? We truly are the lucky country. You are spot on, King Of The Mountain was a belated Christmas gift to the local […]
The Forfeit List is a register of defaulters, people that owe racing money. A person whose name is entered on the Forfeit List is, under the rules of racing, subject to the same disabilities as a person who is disqualified. That means that they cannot train, ride, race horses, work in a stable or even […]
Epitrenbolone is the metabolite of Altrenogest, meaning it’s the same thing Isn’t it ironic that in the same fortnight that Alligator Al takes QRIC and Racing QLD to town and gets the Alligator’s disqualification overturned, the QRIC release it’s decision in the case of trainer Steve O’Dea for exactly the same thing, an Altrenogest positive, […]
Chinchilla is a town in mourning. Everywhere in Queensland is, including here. Tomorrow the town full of tragedy is going to race in honour of our fallen heroes. I wish I didn’t live a thousand miles away, because I want to be there. We all do. Hopefully every club that is racing in the State […]
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. […]
