Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – are the enemy of the racing industry. They hate us, and want to shut us down. We’re cruel, wicked torturers they reckon, animal exploiters and speciests of the worst kind. What’s a speciest you ask? A person who believes that humans run the world, not […]
When the New Zealand Racing Integrity Unit was set up in the wake of the Messara report there was great hope that the new, independent (to a degree) body would jump boots and all into the job and start cleaning up the plague of performance enhancing drugs in the sport. On the evidence published to […]
Jockey John Allen stood himself down from riding at Caulfield yesterday and went in to immediate self-isolation awaiting the result of a COVID test he took after becoming aware that he had without knowing visited a Tier 2 site in recent days. It is not Allen’s fault. Tier 2 sites are things like schools and […]
Alisha Ross being presented with the Tree of Knowledge Cup by Racing Minister Grace Grace out at Barcaldine Let’s hope the QRIC Internal Reviewer takes a leaf out of NSW book and takes a relook at the sentence handed down yesterday to apprentice jockey Alisha Ross, for without being critical of the Stewards it does […]
Tom Sherry’s 4 month suspension has been reduced to 2 months by the NSW Racing Appeals Panel. That seems a much more fair outcome all round. Sherry’s done the crime and has to do his time, but as we highlighted the other day 4 months seemed too stiff given the circumstances. Two months out doesn’t […]
This trend of naming horses after wild animals is starting to get out of hand. First the Kiwis send us over an Elephant, and the big eared bugger stomps all over them in the Sandown Stakes, before trampling the punters next time out in the Toorak. Then in race 2 at Launnie today the Taswegians […]
Tom Raudonikis left us for the great Cambelltown Oval in the sky 6 months ago. Someone must have forgotten to tell Racing Australia about Tommy Terrific’s passing. The great man is still this morning listed at the owner of Fisticuffs. Oh well. I guess he does own the biff in perpetuity.
On the back of a totally unexpected boom in wagering revenue during lockdown season, Racing Queensland have delivered a super impressive (on paper) $11.5 profit this year, and the whole Deagon office is walking around high-fiving and slapping each other backs. Enjoy it while you can RQ can-can dancers, for the bad times are just […]
For twelve teeth gnashing months Richard Callendar, purportedly Australia’s most controversial racing commentator, has bored us all witless with his weekly spruiks for The Everest. It should be a Group 1. It has to be a Group 1. It must be a Group 1. The pattern committee sucks. The pattern committee should be sacked. The […]
When a dual licensed jockey/trainer has a runner in a race they are not allowed to ride any other horse. Black and white, no ifs or buts, full stop, end of story. As we told you a few days ago, dual licensee Cheryl Rogers rode a horse in the 2nd race at Gayndah against one […]
