Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I am sad to say that well known racing figure, TAB agency owner, and one time head of the TAB Agents Association Tony Baulch has run his last race on earth, and has headed up to the great racetrack in the sky. Tony passed away on Monday morning after a long illness that laid him […]
Well it’s D-day today for Ben Currie, or the first of them anyway. It’s also the first huge public test for the Racing Appeals Panel. Is Queensland’s new ‘court’ of final resort going to uphold the Steward’s decision that a strapper should be put out for 18 months – which in Curries circumstances is effectively […]
The world’s most brutal and uncaring greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock had 7 of the 8 runners in the 3rd race at Launceston yesterday, and trained 26 of the 80 runners on the card. All of them fed on freshly chainsawed shot, hung up to bleed on trees, and living 3 days ago prime Ben Yole […]
What see above is 4 Mile Beach. The bloke on the ground is Azkadelia’s owner Peter Foster, who was brutally arrested by thuggish police while walking his dogs, which was a shame because Maggie loved giving them a pat on our morning walks. I never told her who their owner was, or that I knew […]
We are told by the QRIC that it wasn’t the Stewards who originally cleared Robbie Fraehr to ride after his fall in race 3 at Barcaldine, it was the ambos. That may well be true, but the ambos aren’t in charge of things on race day, the Stewards are. They make the call, and they […]
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Another great story from the Asian Racing Report, who have no skin in the game The most damaging war Victorian racing has been fighting has not been with Peter V’landys, writes Bren O’Brien. Victorian racing is often in outright revolt. Such is the nature of an industry which has over 15 stakeholder groups with competing […]
Jockey Rajiv Maragh seemed headed for certain victory as his 3-year-old colt Al Basha thundered down the stretch at Belmont Park on that May afternoon in 2007. But just before crossing the finish line, Al Basha suddenly spooked and turned sharply left. Maragh fell from the saddle, getting kicked in the head on his way […]
The Asian Racing Report is the best racing publication in the world. It has brilliant writers, and they produce brilliant stories. This from October last year is one of them. In these dark days of cuts to prizemoney in Victoria it tells a story that everyone needs to hear. A second-tier global event or a […]
Who won the last 5 Cups? Who rode them? You have 60 seconds to answer. No Googling. Yeah. See what I mean?
