Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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Sydney punter and former brothel owner Eddie Hayson has been arrested by NSW police over the alleged importation of 16kg of methamphetamine and 5 kilograms of MDMA. Police picked up the 55-year-old year-old on the Gold Coast on Tuesday morning where he is expected to appear in Southport magistrates court. Officers will allege the interstate […]
Many in the racing industry are wondering how the Tasmanian based former Asian Racing Journal columnist Bren O’Brien has managed to fund his immediately prodigious start-up racing website the straight.com.au, and how he has obtained the funds to employ and pay a suite of staff that includes racing journalists, website designers, accountants, and admin workers. […]
You can see above what the slang term for cue means. So what do you reckon a Cueman does? Or a Queman, if you are spelling it to avoid the obvious. The Oakleigh Plate is run over 1100m. Get the symbolism? I don’t think the racehorse naming authority did. If you backed them out, then […]
As you can see at the top, just before 8.00pm on Sunday night the TAB were telling its customers that today’s Taroom race meeting in QLD was going to be run on a Good 4 track. Fat chance. At the same time the national racing information body RISA was quite correctly declaring the track to […]
A forensic hunt is on for the $100 million missing from a Ponzi scheme that ripped off bikies, bookmakers and AFL heavyweights. Accountants have been called in to trace the money lost in the scam dubbed worse than the Melissa Caddick con. The stratospheric losses were discovered when AFL powerbroker and Melbourne lawyer John Adams […]
The Ford brother’s beak Matthew Hammond – Tell me, is there such thing as a handsome lawyer in this sky full of stars? I have bagged the living shit out of Ben Yole on this website, and he deserved every word of what I said about him, all of them awful. Bad luck bad boy […]
1. On 19 February 2024, the TRAB heard four appeals concerning warning-off notices issued on 2 February 2024 to the appellants Benjamin Yole, Timothy Yole, Mitchell Ford and Nathan Ford by Tasracing Pty Ltd (Tasracing). The notices were issued pursuant to s. 54(2) of the Racing Regulation Act 2004 (the Act). Pursuant to s 28(1)(a) […]
EXCLUSIVE: Former harness racing chief John Dumesny, once described as a ‘lifelong friend’ of Peter V’landys, is a member of the three-person panel appointed to help the Racing Minister choose the next chairman of Racing NSW. New South Wales racing minister David Harris established the selection panel in December, with Elizabeth Mildwater, the head of […]
The pervasiveness of social media has put a big spotlight on a group of content creators known as “influencers” who can directly communicate and influence their followers. Miami local Alix Earle gives the "Riders Up!" call at the 2024 Pegasus World Cup! 📺 NBC & @peacock | @PegasusWorldCup pic.twitter.com/612ixJMyT7 — NBC Sports (@NBCSports) January 27, […]
