Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
There is not much I can say. The video says it all. Poor bloody kid. How brave is he? Give generously.
Whoever said horses aren’t herd animals? They were wrong.
According to information that we have received from people who would know, the barrier attendant who returned a positive preliminary reading to a banned substance during this week’s impromptu drug testing operation at the Callaghan Park racecourse was none other than the banned trainer Nick Walsh’s father Troy. The irony is that not only is […]
Um excuse me Mr Racing Minister, today is the last day of the month …. The inside mail is that the release of the QLD Racing Review has been delayed because the Government refused to agree to the Review Committee’s centerpiece recommendation that the Point Of Consumption Tax (POCT) rate be reduced from 20% to […]
We were saddened to hear this morning of the passing of former Central Coast starter and long-time racing man Rex Kelly. I never met Mr. Kelly but heard his named mentioned by race callers so many times over the years that it felt like he was an old friend. He was a great servant to […]
Tang Renjian accepted cash and property bribes totalling more than 268 million yuan (US$38 million) between 2007 and 2024, the People’s Court of Changchun in northeast Jilin province said in a statement. China’s former agricultural minister was sentenced to death on Sunday on corruption charges, with a two-year reprieve, a court statement said. Tang Renjian […]
