Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We are told on reliable advice that a number of small-time trainers who have operated out of Deagon for years have been contacted by Matt Rudolph, the Executive General Manager of Racing at the Brisbane Racing Club (BRC), who has told them that they are not wanted at the training facility any longer as they […]
Racenet is running a series of staged interviews with the bosses of some of major corporate bookmakers this week. Tristan Merlehan from Top Sports was the first. Here is a bitter and twisted cynics interpretation of what he said, with Merlehan’s comments in italic and the cynical interpreter’s translation in plain font below. Currently our […]
This is Nutso, pictured in the tie up stalls at Charleville before he raced in 38 plus degree heat on Saturday afternoon. He doesn’t look like a horse suffering from colic to me. Nutso won his race by 4 lengths. And now he’s dead. The owners, many of them making their first venture into the […]
What sort of worst practice head injury assessment (HIA) is this? A horse rears up and smacks its jockey in the head. No assessment at all is done by a paramedic or doctor – or indeed and trained professional – to ascertain the rider’s state of health, other than to ask the jock if they […]
We are reliably informed that the words exchanged by jockeys Thomas and Morrison are not the subject stewards inquiry into a mounting yard incident after the running of the last race. Mud in our eye. Sorry Nathan and Lacey. All we can say in our defense is that we were having a stab in the […]
It’s been a cracker of a weekend for horses in Queensland racing, a real ripper indeed. Two of them are dead within 48 hours, one a galloper at Charleville, the other this pacer at Albion Park. What a wonderful two days in the annals of animal welfare. At the least the undertakers are doing good […]
A horse named Nutso racked up win 4 from 10 careers starts in winning Race 1 at Charleville by 4 lengths yesterday afteroon. Five hours later the horse is fighting for his life after suffering heat stroke during his race, but at this stage the bands still playing. It’s 38 degrees in the shade despite […]
Why do racing writers from the mainstream media – in particular Murdoch press gumby Tom Biddington – continue to call Todd Balfour’s assault on a race day official a ‘dacking’, implying that pulling the Compliance Officers pants down and exposing his genitals for all the world to see while he was working to keep drunk […]
I Swallowed a FLY !!! pic.twitter.com/q6DogQ66uY — Paul Campbellscomments.com (@vege07) March 1, 2024
Former Adelaide gallops trainer turned stable hand and trackwork rider Todd Balfour’s 5-year disqualification for pulling down the pants of a Racing SA Compliance Officer who was conducting breath testing after the Kangaroo Island races and fully exposing the official from the waist down is utterly justified, and he was lucky not to get life. […]
