Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the ratings of the horse Smart Mission in the screenshot above taken from the Racing Australia (RISA) website above? Smart Mission has dropped 11 ratings points after its last start 5th at Mackay. Horses don’t drop eleven points after a loss. They drop one. Racing QLD have made a serious error here. As a […]
… doesn’t Sky commentator Brad ‘Davo’ Davidson shave his head? … did Martin Harley go back to the inside on Brave Monarch in the Fred Best Classic instead of trying to force a run to the outside? … do jockeys persist in taking runs toward the inner on wet tracks when the rail is clearly […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Billy Healey sent out a message to his stable clients a couple of days ago telling them that he had sacked his new Racing Manager Ben Currie. Some people believed it. Currie Racing has fired back. I know who I would bet on to be telling the truth about the whole affair. […]
Queensland’s former premier trainer turned racing manager Ben Currie looks to be out of work judging by the above message sent by trainer Billy Healey to stable clients yesterday. Whilst the message doesn’t state it explicitly, the obvious inference is that Healey has sacked Currie from his managerial role at the racing operation, an unexpected […]
Racing NSW CEO Peter V’Landys has announced that he will take 4 months long service leave from the role to allow him to concentrate all of his efforts on running the NRL after the departure of footy CEO Anthony Abdo. V’Landys deputy Graeme Hinton will act in the CEO role during his absence. PVL is […]
Prominent punting pundit Peter Mair was kind enough to share his thoughts about the problems with wagering in Australia, and in particular with bookies being allowed to screw over their customers/clients. AUSTRALIAN RACING: ANSWERS BEFORE QUESTIONS – An Alternative View There is no doubt that the nub of the issues that Peter has identified are […]
The racing industry nationally seems to be embroiled in controversy. Internecine warfare is being waged in the NSW courts, along with ‘bans’ on media commentary, and there is destabilising squabbling in other states (and New Zealand) mainly about the future funding of racing. Then, from left-field came news of an AUSTRAC investigation of cash-betting activity. […]
Archie From the ABC Website: “The nation’s anti-doping agency has revealed that it plans to expand drug-testing in Australian sport in response to the soaring popularity of unregulated peptides in the broader community.” Perhaps they may care to widen their testing into the racing/harness industry where certain trainers can mysteriously attach a 5th leg to previously […]
A New Force in QLD Greyhound Racing? Is it true that Australia’s biggest greyhound owner has paid 3 million plus to purchased a dog training property in Queensland not far from the Q? And is the owner really bringing one of New Zealand’s best trainers over to prepare his dogs from the property? Rats in […]
Wayne Francis Innes – aka Mirrors – is a career criminal, fraud mainly with a little bit of drug dealing thrown in on top, although he has never been pinched for selling ‘CD’s’, which was code word for gear. Mirrors has served two jail terms for his frauds, the most recent for bribing senior Ipswich […]
