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nsw Peter V'Landys Politics Racing

Mad Mark Latham is Nothing But a Spear Chucker For the Rich Racing Men Who are Really All Tip and No Iceberg

by : peterprofitracing

The secretly funded new seemingly anti-Peter V’landys racing website thestraight.com.au broke new ground in its apparent campaign against the Racing NSW CEO by reciting from a speech given to the largely irrelevant upper house in the state given by the totally irrelevant MP Mark Latham under parliamentary privilege. https://thestraight.com.au/all-tip-no-iceberg-latham-launches-extraordinary-parliamentary-attack-on-part-time-peter-vlandys/ In his speech the madcap former […]

Racing Tasmania

Tasracing Take Out a Half-Page Ad in the Paper Saying ‘We’re a Bunch of Clueless Morons Who Don’t Know What Day of the Week it Is, or How to Read the Racing Calendar’

by : peterprofitracing

This above is a paid half-page advertisement that Tasracing had taken out in the Hobart Mercury this week to promote the three codes of racing taking place over the Easter period. Unfortunately is doesn’t promote anything at all, other than Tasracing’s rank stupidity. There aren’t any harness races at Elwick in Hobart on Friday, they […]

Animal Welfare Racing

Should There Be an Upper Age Restriction for Racing Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds? – A Personal View from Dr Greg Hargreaves, Vet – Part 1

by : peterprofitracing

Dr Gregory Hargreaves is a highly respected Australian equine vet who has officiated at more than 1000 race meetings. Greg shared this paper that he delivered to the 22nd International Conference of Racing Analysts and Veterinarians in Dubai in 2018 with us in response to our story about Fabs Cowboy, the bush horse whose winning […]

Animal Welfare Racing

Should There Be an Upper Age Restriction for Racing Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds? – A Personal View from Dr Greg Hargreaves, Vet – Part 2

by : peterprofitracing

Rules can negatively impact on the racing industry’s ability to provide racing product. This is illustrated with the example of fourteen year old Sharon The Moment which won at Truro Raceway in Canada on the 31 December 2017 (truroraceway.ca). The next day it was no longer eligible to race, simply because it was one day […]

Animal Welfare Racing

Should There Be an Upper Age Restriction for Racing Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds? – A Personal View from Dr Greg Hargreaves, Vet – Part 3

by : peterprofitracing

Using various Catastrophic Musculoskeletal Injury (CMI) rates I have constructed Table 1. Number of starts go up to three hundred as I have examined Standardbreds at the racetrack who have had in excess of that number of starts. An Australian Thoroughbred, Play David (b1978), had 236 starts and retired in Jun 1992 as a thirteen year […]

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