Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
James McDonald may be only 32 years of age, which is an incredibly young age to be considered an immortal, but if he is not the next jockey inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame at the annual ceremony being held in October this year then I will eat my leg. McDonald has ridden […]
Which racing chief is soon t0 become the next to go? Is the bloke starting to get used to being punted, after his wife won the first? The owner of which world’s richest pace winner is said to have got set at $71 in early markets for the Eureka? He’s said to have kept backing […]
Is that disgraced jockey Michael Poy who has been seen working repairing dents on hail damaged cars? Would a wise man in Poy’s situation facing betting charges in WA really be shooting of his mouth to co-workers about how much money he’s won on the punt? Speaking of sightings, was that really the vanished former […]
Remember the dead Ponzi scammer John Adams, whose crimes we exposed on this site? Here’s the latest on the hunt for the missing millions that he stole. AFL Ponzi scheme boss ‘hid $5m holiday house asset’ The architect of a $100 million Ponzi scheme that ensnared high profile AFL figures died without any assets in […]
PETER V’LANDYS: Absolutely. My evidence today will absolutely destroy what they’ve written in that letter anyway because none of it is true. The other thing that was said in Parliament, which is completely false, is that I interfere in stewards’ inquiries. In the 20 years I have been at Racing NSW I have not interfered—and […]
Hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly went missing from one of NSW’s most successful country race clubs and it only narrowly avoided going under after Racing NSW granted it the benefit of the doubt. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the mysterious case of the missing cash, which an auditor suggested was misappropriation but the club […]
Racing NSW has collected training cost information from a cross-section of trainers in order to estimate the total payments made by owners for racehorse training, veterinary and spelling costs. Assuming a horse is in work eight months and spelling four months each year, a survey of Metropolitan, Provincial and Country trainers reveals the average annual […]
Returns to Trainers, Jockeys and Stablehands The exponential increases in prizemoney in NSW has not only benefited the owners, but has seen trainers, jockeys and stablehands all receive growth in incomes that far outstrips any other state in Australia. This shared success through the distribution of prizemoney has ensured that all participants in NSW have […]
ATC unsolicited proposal to the NSW Government for the sale of Rosehill Racecourse The ATC has been progressing an unsolicited proposal to the NSW Government for the sale of Rosehill Racecourse. Racing NSW will be analysing this proposal in detail and ensuring the proper due diligence is completed and the outcomes are in the best […]
I’m a massive fan of jumps racing and always have been, but when you have seven horses die during the relatively short jumps racing season and three perish on the showpiece final day, plus a jockey in intensive care wife life shattering head injuries, it’s becoming hard to the point of impossible to mount an […]
