Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A letter from the Australian Media and Communications Authority (ACMA) sits unopened in an office in downtown Willemstad, the capital city of Curacao, a Caribbean island that has become a centre for much of the world’s unregulated gambling. The letter is a formal warning to a company which facilitates online casino and sportsbetting, informing them […]
There is understandable lament concerning miserable attendance numbers at live racing programs. It shames me when The Meadowlands offers a boffo card, and the attendance is spotty. I have some plausible deniability because I live several hundred miles away, have only been to New Jersey once and have never visited The Big M. However, I […]
This is race that is the immediate focus of attention of the Stewards investigating racing corruption. The horse that blew from $3.70 to $6.oo is Blistering, in the orange and white stripes, ridden by Lewis German. He is a crook, a thief, a cheat and a bum. The investigation is ongoing, but one thing is […]
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards today concluded an inquiry into an incident which occurred at the Toowoomba Turf Club on the morning of the 14 April 2023, whereby a racially derogatory remark was directed toward Jockey Bradley Appo. After taking written and verbal evidence from both Jockey Bradley Appo and Apprentice Sariah Champkin, as […]
JAPANESE-born jockey Yoko Ota is not a dreamer but she has spent half her life living in optimistic hope on a sometimes frightening roller coast ride in racing. The 35-year-old always wanted to be a jockey but her applications to join an apprentice school in Japan were twice turned down. She read of a Japanese apprentice jockey […]
In one of the most inane announcements ever made, Victorian Jockeys Association union boss Matt Hyland has declared that jockeys do not want 10 race cards in the city on a Saturday. The hoops are already burned out by the overly onerous Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday schedule says Hyland, and a 10 race […]
Click to access Stewards-Report-Tenille-Ranger-and-David-Silver-2022.pdf David Silver is a failed syndicator and, in my view – and it is a very subjective view, held by me – a very bitter and twisted man. Silver is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to all things racing that he doesn’t succeed in (most), and for reasons beyond my […]
A horse trainer who sold a non-existent horse for $40,000 and defrauded horse owners will serve seven months home detention. Mitchell Paul Kerr, 30, appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Tuesday to be sentenced on three charges – two of obtaining by deception and another of forgery. He earlier pleaded guilty to all three and was […]
Ciaron Maher Racing has reached agreement with Racing NSW to take over the state-of-the-art NSW Southern Highlands equine property Bong Bong Farm, formerly the home of Waratah Thoroughbreds. The farm itself is a 97.5-hectare property that boasts 40 paddocks, four architecturally designed barns containing 61 boxes, 1,250-metre turf and sand training tracks, a swimming pool, […]
Racing Victoria General Manager of Racing Matthew Welsh has announced that Victorian prizemoney will be slashed next season due to decreased revenue from wagering. It’s not quite true. Wagering revenue did go down year to year, but only by $2 million, and that loss was well and truly offset by increases to media and other […]
