Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The boffins at Racing Victoria very rarely get their big ideas right. For proof look at the now abandoned mandatory scanning of international runners in the Melbourne Cup; the now abandoned ‘race only 6 days a week’ policy; the now abandoned whip-free race meeting; the all but abandoned idea to build a new national peak […]
There is increasing speculation in racing circles that if Gillon McLachlan is proven to have knowledge of the AFL’s drug testing cover-up practices – and to date he hasn’t been – it may cost him the long-mooted Chairman’s role at Racing Victoria. Racing is a sport that is dependent both on being free of drugs, […]
The seminal case of Goadsby v Harness Racing NSW – a matter that will have far-reaching ramifications for licensees and racing officials across all three codes – was heard yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court. The judge in the case has reserved their decision, meaning that they need some time to go back over the […]
Does the Gold Coast race track manager Nevesh Ramdahni ever take responsibility for anything? Will the sycophantic members of the QLD racing media ever put ask the hard questions that might force him to admit at least some fault in relatiion to the Gold Coast track fail disaster? Judging by this interview between Radio TAB […]
Dear Peter Profit Unfortunately what Mark Latham didn’t mention was how the AFL beat the NRL in the media rights deal by the length of the Flemington straight. In NSW racing the Hawkesbury club went into administration, we have TAB tracks out west that dont even have semaphore boards, and PVL sits back and allows […]
The secretly funded new seemingly anti-Peter V’landys racing website thestraight.com.au broke new ground in its apparent campaign against the Racing NSW CEO by reciting from a speech given to the largely irrelevant upper house in the state given by the totally irrelevant MP Mark Latham under parliamentary privilege. https://thestraight.com.au/all-tip-no-iceberg-latham-launches-extraordinary-parliamentary-attack-on-part-time-peter-vlandys/ In his speech the madcap former […]
Nominations for the maiden at Beaudesert on Saturday An incredible 206 nominations have been received for the 8 race Beaudesert meeting on Saturday, bigger numbers than I have seen anywhere outside of a feature metropolitan meeting for a long, long time. The Toomoomba meeting on Thursday has huge numbers too, with 156 h0rses nominated to […]
This above is a paid half-page advertisement that Tasracing had taken out in the Hobart Mercury this week to promote the three codes of racing taking place over the Easter period. Unfortunately is doesn’t promote anything at all, other than Tasracing’s rank stupidity. There aren’t any harness races at Elwick in Hobart on Friday, they […]
We are going to have a lot more to say about this case in due course, for it is unfair discrimination of the highest degree. First though have a read of the RIB decision, so you know what we are talking about. Don’t be put off by the fact that it’s an NZ trot case. […]
Take a look at the start of the Golden Slipper from two perspectives. First keep your eyes on the favorite Storm Boy jumping from barrier 2, and see how the barrier attendant seems to have hold of him just until they jumped, and how he seemed to do down on his knees and miss the […]
