Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have been telling you for a long time that online racing publication The Straight is a front for sectional interests, predominantly the breeders who fund the publication and their friends, who in the time honored warped tradition of anyone who is Peter V’Landys enemy is my friend, includes every wanker under the sun, and […]
One time Group 1 winning jockey Gavin Eades has been warned off for 6 months by Racing Victoria Stewards, effective immediately. It is a warning off because RV can’t disqualify him as he doesn’t hold a license. Six months isn’t really long enough in my view. Life would have been better. It doesn’t really matter […]
“I can’t touch horses or saddle horses but I can manage some things for the stable, help with programming campaigns for horses and manage communication with owners” “There are some things I did wrong in the past and if I could go back in time and change some stuff I would. “I’ve always wanted to […]
Health and safety standards are clearly not of a particularly high standard in South Australia. These images are of the start of race 8 at Clare on Sunday. The woman in the right hand corner with the bloke in shorts has clearly had a few. She takes and sip and then decides to have a […]
Cambridge Stud CEO Henry Pluntree launches a tirade about the supposed issues within racing in this video above posted on the SEN website, and concludes by saying that the problem in racing is the Administrators. It is a bold statement that has garnered support from a range of racing participants, including former race caller Brian […]
In a high wage economy with low unemployment stable workers are hard to find, especially when like most trainers you only wish to pay the minimum award hourly rate. Not all that many Australians are prepared to work at mucking out horse boxes for $25.85 an hour, not when they can get $40 an hour […]
The NSW Trainers Association have been very vocal in its opposition to Peter V’Landys, and was last week reported to be threatening to pass a no confidence motion in V’Landys as Racing NSW CEO. Which begs the question. Who and what exactly is the NSW Trainer’s Association (NSWTA), and what rights to they have under […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
It is morally reprehensible and completely unacceptable for greyhounds to be euthanised unnecessarily. Such an act destroys all public confidence in the greyhound racing industry. It is common knowledge that participants in the past have been caught deliberately euthanising their greyhounds once the dogs finished their active racing career. This practice must be stopped, or […]
The Victorian Racing Tribunal had warned greyhound trainer Gary Febey off for 6 years, and all we can say is good, because he totally deserves it. Febey had been called to a Stewards Inquiry into the death of an unnamed greyhound that he trained. He didn’t cooperate with the Stewards, and was charged with various […]
