Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by Matt Nicholls. Blind Freddy could see that it was a false start and should have been called a no-race. But it took the stewards about an hour to draw the same conclusion following this year’s failed Hughenden Cup in what turned out to be farcical scenes. Firstly, let’s go back to the beginning. […]
I dunno who these lads at the Grafton dogs tonight are, but they made effort to give us a smile and a wave so I thought we’d give them one back. Good on ya boys. I hope you are backing a winner.
$1.20 Tim Hale SC – Elected Director (pictured) Waterhouse man. Leading silk. Big wheel at the top end of town. Led the successful anti-sale campaign. Incumbent Vice-Chair. His time has come. We’re tipping him a cert. $4.10 David McGrath – Govt appointed Independent Director. So was rejected and just resigned Chairman Peter McGauran, and look […]
Well you have to say that it’s not often you see us stand up for a Yole. We usually kick the shit out of the bastards every chance we get, and with good reason too because they’re race fixing, joint blocking, horse doping, workers comp dodging, employer superannuation contribution guarantee non-paying, used pacer dogging clan […]
Wayne Yole had lodged an appeal claiming that Tasracing Chief Racing Integrity Officer Heidi Lester’s decision to impose restrictive conditions on his license that would have shut down his business was actuated by real bias. In public bar language that means that he was saying that Lester was out to get him, and made sure […]
So it wasn’t Battle of the Bush winning former trainer David Reynolds who scratched Megan Purvis’ horse from a race meeting at Townsville last year without her permission after all. Apologies to Mr Reynolds for suggesting otherwise. It was a stablehand named Natalie James. We don’t know why she did such a thing, but James […]
The New Zealand racing rules provide that the Racing Integrity Board can order a licensee who is convicted of a rule breach to pay its (the RIB’s) costs incurred in prosecuting them. Imagine that in a democracy. Paying the police to prosecute you. It sounds like Nazi Germany. Of course the more you protest your […]
You can get into the Windsor Enclosure at Royal Ascot for fifty bucks. Peter V’Landys charges $50 to get into the public area for The Everest too. It’s a bit more expensive to go to Flemington for the Melbourne Cup. The cheapest tickets are $90.75 None of these major race day event ticket prices has […]
Trainers across the United States of America are in a mass panic after armed agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the Delta Downs race track last week and arrested 84 unlicensed illegal immigrants who were working as trackwork riders and stable hands. https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-law-enforcement-partners-arrest-more-80-illegal-aliens-during-worksite All of the illegal workers – mainly trackwork riders and […]
Race six on the Randwick Kenso yesterday was the hottest gallops race I have seen for a long time. A mare named Hasty Honey ridden by Kerrin McEvoy was backed from $9.00 into $3.00. It jumped straight to the front. Every other jockey in the race put the handbrake on. J-Mac on the 5/4 favorite […]
