Fine Cotton, the Bloke Behind It, and Robbie and Bill
The story in the video explains itself. It’s worth a watch.
Jack Trainor is a Cheat Who Should Have Copped 12 Months, But Instead They Fine Him a Couple Haircuts – Welcome to QLD, a Strange Land of Integrity Illusions and Dreams
Watch this video at the bottom. Keep your eyes on Turb0, aka Jack Trainor the driver of I Cast No Shadow, the horse in the maroon and white colors. Turbo has got Leap To Fame his back, The reason that the champ is there is because Trainor has hooked out in front of him on […]
Want to See a Textbook Example of Team Driving? – Or Why Kiwi Trot Folk Shouldn’t be Granted Imperial Honors? – Then Watch This – And Arise Sir Cam
Trainer Tony Herlihy MNZM had three runners in race 3 at Alexandra Park last night. Park Lane, Busload of Faith, and Jethro Bodine. One of them – Jethro Bodine – has been smashed from $3.60 into $1.90. It’s the one. Everything goes to plan early. Park Lane leads. Jethro Bodine gets the sweet cover and […]
Don’t Ever Think That Chris Munce Wasn’t Guilty in Hong Kong – He Nodded His Head 36 Times
Munce leaves Sydney’s Silverwater jail in 2008 accompanied by Junior, a top bloke from Nudgee named Peter Van REDACTED, who played front row for Norths just 2 years after switching over from soccer at SP bookie Bobby Bax’s urgings. He was a great footy coach Bob, and a superb judge. My Uncle Bert used to […]
How Munce’s Hong Kong Scam Worked
HONG KONG: An Indian-origin businessman has emerged at the centre of a betting scandal in Hong Kong following charges that a well-known Australian jockey gave him racing tips and used him as a conduit for placing bets in violation of the law. Testifying as a witness with immunity from prosecution, Dinesh Kumar Daswani, a Hong […]
We Can Do Magic – But We Can’t Fix a Fix, or the Rot
Yesterday morning we write about how the Murrihy inquiry report is supposed to be handed down by the end of this week. Late yesterday arvo it is announced that the report’s delivery has been put back by 8 weeks. You have to start suspecting that fix is in don’t you? We certainly not, but there […]
Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill – To Fix the Redcliffe Cup
Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson, Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainer, and Seaton ‘Jilly Boy’ Grima fixed the Redcliffe Cup last night. The go horse was Loyalist. Jilly trained it, and Jilly Boy drove it. Loyalist had won just 4 races from 53 starts – all of them at it’s home track of Rangiora, near ‘Slimy’ Sam Taylor the man […]
Honest Rob and Tony Manton Kill a Fave, and the Stipes Call the Fave’s Driver in to Face the Bullet – There is Nothing Wrong With Integrity in the Victorian Trots – Except the Obvious
Ashley Manton has been around a while and is no angel, and hasn’t been for a long time. Here he at Charlton back in 2014 beating the crap out of a horse. Manton is the driver of the leader on the inside. Look how hard he hits it. A few years later in 2017 Manton […]
There is Something Rotten in the State of Victorian Harness Racing – All the Way Through
I have never in entire life seen a more obviously crooked team drive than the one that Kate Gath pulled in the 8th at Melton last night. Gath drove the $1.40 favorite Encipher, trained by Emma Stewart and winner of a half million dollars and last year’s 3YO Filly of the Year award. It was […]
The Rules About What Kate Gath Did
154. (1) If a horse breaks gait during a race, its driver shall take immediate action to avoid interference with other runners and without gaining an unfair advantage restrain the horse to its correct gait before rejoining the race without interference to another runner. Did not happen. Encipher did not break gait. 162. (1) A […]