Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
• The big picture. The latest confirmed global figures from multiple sources up to the end of 2021 for the 62 countries breeding Thoroughbreds reveal 84,213 foals were registered that year, a decrease of 32% from a peak of 123,568 in 2005. • North America’s foal crop, the largest numerically worldwide, has been declining for […]
Story by Will Jones, author of the seminal racing tome The Black Horse is Dying, and much appreciated and loved friend of and international correspondent for this site Coolmore Stud is, naturally, the biggest draw on the Irish Stallion Trail, a golden two day opportunity every January for the last ten years for studs around […]
Slipping effortlessly from Churchill to George Bernard Shaw, Byrne waxed lyrical that it’s not always going to be dark at 5 o’clock. Try telling that to the breeders who were at Goffs Sales last November and couldn’t even get a bid of E10,000 on a foal by Saxon Warrior who stood at a E35,000 fee. […]
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 […]
