Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I am sure the connections of Sheza Chiquitita who competes at the Magic Millions meeting on Saturday would be shocked to learn that their filly is now trained by Les Ross. When they woke up this morning it was trained by Kevin Kemp. We’re told she still is. Oops.
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where the crowds resort, and less where the wanderers go; Greater, or smaller, the same old things we see by the dull road-side — And tired of all is the spirit that sings of the days […]
James Murdoch KC, aka the Magic Man The favourite game of jockey and trainer’s smart lawyers in Queensland used to be to get a stay of their suspension/disqualification/warnings off for rule breach offences by Stewards in the QLD Civil and Administration Tribunal (QCAT), and knowing the long delays in that multi-faceted minor court of dispute […]
What the hell is the point of this Steward’s footage from the Gold Coast on Saturday? We went to have a look for the head on of Tim Clark’s atrocious ride on the fave in The Wave, and this is all we got. It’s pretty much exactly the same as the standard Sky footage of […]
Poor Emily Pomfrett went to work at Gatton today and she hasn’t come home. Instead the loving young mother, partner and daughter lies in a critical condition in the ICU at the PA Hospital fighting for her life, because a horse named Wanta Willow went crazy in the mounting yard, flipped, threw, and crushed the […]
We’ve mentioned before the troubling trend of many micro-bookmakers, who seem to be arbitraging the regulations and taxation situation. Another story, we talked about operators giving people the run-around for deposits. It appears that whilst Victoria might give a bookmakers licence to my cat if I could get it a suitable ID card, NSW on […]
A still shot of the fall at St Mary’s on Monday Hot on the heels of the death of Orbisyn at the crossing past the winning post at Doomben comes a 7 horse pile up at the crossing at the St Mary’s trots. Now the St Mary’s track is a whole lot rougher than Doomben […]
When’s the first?
That’s not Orbisyn. But it is the crossing at which he fell. I was there at the Doomben track yesterday with my young child, having a family day out together at the races. Orbisyn got the green curtain treatment after sliding out at the corner, just after the crossing where the access to the track […]
New Zealand has this whizz bang racing integrity system under which race day stewards no longer charge trainers and riders and hit them with a fine or suspension on the spot after they breach the rules. Instead the stewards lay a charge against a licensee, and a panel of ‘independent’ adjudicators who are paid thousands of […]
