Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I know a bloke named Mark Riley – a Group 1 winning trainer and jockey – who has effectively been banned from the sport by Racing Victoria due to a positive swab charge brought (and won) by Racing Victoria on a technicality that turns .061 of 1000th of 6.02214076×10 particles of total carbon dioxide (tco2) into […]
It was only the other day that I told you about my mate the Ruler tipping a $20 winner trained by the man with the best return on investment rate in Victoria, the hitherto largely unknown Peter “the Bookie Beater’ Burgun Well would you believe it, the Ruler tipped another one trained by the Bookie […]
Please take the the replay of Leah Kilner’s fall down from your website. I don’t think it’s appropriate at this time.
It was only 3 months ago that Chief Steward Chadwick issued the directive above to QLD trainers and jockeys. Apprentices must claim their full allowance or ride at their declared minimum riding weight (MRW). Under no circumstances will an apprentice be allowed to ride over their MRW. Chief Chadwick also this issued this one – […]
I was chatting to a well-know fella that I share a love of true crime and racing with the other day (both of us on the side of light, or him anyway), and we were discussing the punt. When sharing his tips for the Bendigo meeting two days hence, the man gave me three. One […]
Remember we told you about 2 years ago that how Phoenix Thoroughbreds – one of Australia’s biggest yearling buyers – was a money laundering scam washing money from a global crypto scam? No-one listened at the time, not the newspapers caught hold of it a couple of weeks after we published our story, and claimed […]
How can a track that has had multi-millions spent to reconstruct possibly be as bad as Ipswich? It simply defies belief. This short clip is from the Stewards vision of a race on Wednesday. They are throwing up clods like they do a heavy. No-one has come out between races to plug the surface. The […]
Well things are crook in Tullarook, or out Hughenden way at least. It’s pissing down out west. The Oak Park track’s a wreck. This year’s races are off. But there is good news. Well sort of anyway. The bras are still on. Well they were until the kids went home from the ball. Muddy hell. […]
Caitlin Gotze was a much loved member of the racing community on the Downs. Six weeks before Xmas Caitlin died at work. She was just 23 years old. The autopsy conducted said that Caitlin died of undetermined causes. Her mum Raelene Kennedy doesn’t believe it. She wants a full coronial inquest into her beloved daughter’s […]
Forbury Park is a famous trot track in Dunedin in New Zealand’s south, which from 1890 until the decision of the new NZ Racing Board to close it down last year was the spiritual home of harness racing in Otago. For over 12 months now the track has been sitting idle and unused. Not any […]
