Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Bloody Sydney and it’s Easter time weather. I was just saying to a mate yesterday that it was a miracle the Golden Slipper wasn’t run on a heavy track as it had been so many times before. It seems I was a week too early. This is the rain at Randwick on Thursday night, and […]
WHAT a disastrous weekend it’s been for the sport in Queensland and if Racing Minister Grace Grace hasn’t heard the increasing calls for the removal of QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard (pictured above) she must be living under a rock. Former Sunday Mail Editor and Sky News boss in Queensland, Peter Gleeson, in a stunning expose […]
Police seized drugs and “items of interest” as part of an early morning raid at a high-profile Gold Coast horse racing stable. Police sources have told the Bulletin 10 officers, including the dog squad, executed a search warrant at the property on Ken Russell Court, Bundall at about 5.30am on Sunday March 24. It’s understood […]
The short commentary above about the drop in the price of a slot in the million dollar race at Mohawk says it all about why either the peak racing bodies – in the case of The Everest or the Eureka, for example – or the sponsors like Ladbrokes in The Protostar have to top up […]
The boffins at Racing Victoria very rarely get their big ideas right. For proof look at the now abandoned mandatory scanning of international runners in the Melbourne Cup; the now abandoned ‘race only 6 days a week’ policy; the now abandoned whip-free race meeting; the all but abandoned idea to build a new national peak […]
There is increasing speculation in racing circles that if Gillon McLachlan is proven to have knowledge of the AFL’s drug testing cover-up practices – and to date he hasn’t been – it may cost him the long-mooted Chairman’s role at Racing Victoria. Racing is a sport that is dependent both on being free of drugs, […]
The seminal case of Goadsby v Harness Racing NSW – a matter that will have far-reaching ramifications for licensees and racing officials across all three codes – was heard yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court. The judge in the case has reserved their decision, meaning that they need some time to go back over the […]
Does the Gold Coast race track manager Nevesh Ramdahni ever take responsibility for anything? Will the sycophantic members of the QLD racing media ever put ask the hard questions that might force him to admit at least some fault in relatiion to the Gold Coast track fail disaster? Judging by this interview between Radio TAB […]
Dear Peter Profit Unfortunately what Mark Latham didn’t mention was how the AFL beat the NRL in the media rights deal by the length of the Flemington straight. In NSW racing the Hawkesbury club went into administration, we have TAB tracks out west that dont even have semaphore boards, and PVL sits back and allows […]
