Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
It is morally reprehensible and completely unacceptable for greyhounds to be euthanised unnecessarily. Such an act destroys all public confidence in the greyhound racing industry. It is common knowledge that participants in the past have been caught deliberately euthanising their greyhounds once the dogs finished their active racing career. This practice must be stopped, or […]
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 […]
The case of owner Justin Strout’s appeal against a decision of the Victorian Stewards to subject his horse Imminance to the balloting conditions for the final of the $150 000 Grand Handicap Series Final at Champions Day is an interesting one, in more ways that one. Imminance had competed in and won a Heat of […]
Well the votes are in and Peter V’Landys has been reelected as Australia’s Greatest Racing Administrator in a landslide. The votes being the 2024/25 annual reports of Racing Victoria and NSW. The numbers being the electors. Here is a summary of the count. Racing NSW revenue was $116 million less than that of Racing Victoria […]
Trot trainer Anton Golino not that long ago relocated his training operation and his home from Victoria to NSW, presumably chasing the better prizemoney so he could attempt to make a decent living. Golino spent a lot of time, effort and money to do so. Unfortunately not that long after arriving in NSW one of […]
Hass Taiba (pictured above with the horse) is best known in racing circles as the former owner of one-time star pacer Captain Ravishing, which was sold to one of Mr Brightside’s part owners earlier this year and transferred to WA. It seems Hass will be having Christmas lunch inside this year. What a terrible way […]
See that thing the man is sitting behind at the non-TAB meeting as Esk today? That’s a tote machine. It’s fully operational and in work today too. We thought that the Rockhampton Jockey Club CEO told punters that no race club has TAB terminals at non-TAB meetings. Yeah good Rocky. It’s just you.
We are unabashed huge fans of Peter V’Landys, as a person, as a leader, and as quite possibly the greatest racing administrator that the world has ever seen. The reasons for that latter statement are borne out clearly by the information and financial accounts published this week in the 2025 Annual Report. Racing NSW’ success […]
Are we some sort of backward neanderthals in racing, stuck in another century when men tipped their hats to ladies and called them madam, and ladies wore skirts down to their heels? We must be. Why else does Racing Australia put a Ms in front of every female rider and nothing in front of the […]
