Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bruce Negus is famous as the trainer of the champion Kiwi pacer Courage Under Fire. Together he and the midget pacer won 24 races in a row, including six Derbies, the Great Northern, NZ, Victorian, NSW, QLD and Australian. It had never been done before, and it never will again. What happened to Bruce Negus […]
Sport Integrity Australia to widen drug-testing amid illicit peptides boom The nation’s anti-doping agency has revealed that it plans to expand drug-testing in Australian sport in response to the soaring popularity of unregulated peptides in the broader community. Amid a sharp rise in the importation and manufacturing of black and grey market peptides, Sport Integrity […]
In our previous story we wrote that long serving track foreman Rob Burnell was mentoring the new Callaghan Park track manager Kent Lean. We based that on publicly available material, most of it published by the Rockhampton Jockey Club. Since then we have been informed that Rob Burnell resigned from his employment with the club […]
Victorian trot driver Aaron Dunn is a cowboy. Last month in the Mildura Cup he cut his horse Forty Love across from the deep on the first turn and all but wiped out half the field. Five horses copped severe interference as a result of his actions, including the first and second favorites, and it […]
The Victorian Racing Tribunal had warned greyhound trainer Gary Febey off for 6 years, and all we can say is good, because he totally deserves it. Febey had been called to a Stewards Inquiry into the death of an unnamed greyhound that he trained. He didn’t cooperate with the Stewards, and was charged with various […]
I can assure you from my own knowledge and experience of Jim Murdoch KC that he is a thoroughly good and decent human being, but gee if he was of a different bent he would have made an outstanding interrogator for the Stasi. Slowly and methodically he is twisting Callow in knots and tearing him […]
The full text of the Redfern Speech can be read at the link below. Click to access 00008765.pdf
To suggest that he was a person affected by rules which were implemented to govern an industry in which he was prohibited from participating, defies common sense – NSW Racing Appeals Panel decision in Ben Sarina v Harness Racing NSW Now as we have written a million times and have plastered all over this website […]
Ben Sarina has won his appeal to the NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal against the decision to warn him off for life for assaulting a former harness racing Steward, in a decision that has an immediate and wide ranging impact on the powers of HRNSW and its Stewards to supervise or control the activities of disqualified […]
