Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Matt has been my mate since were teens at the racetrack, and I love him. You would too if you knew him. About a decade ago his Mum was diagnosed with severe onset dementia, and all but one of his siblings wanted to put her in a nursing home because they claimed that they didn’t […]
It was a wonderful Ipswich family tribute to a caring mum and proud sporting dynasty. Winning the latest Ipswich Auction Sprint Series final with the aptly-named Little Byrnes meant so much for greyhound owner Matthew Cranitch and his children. Little Byrnes was the nickname of Matthew’s mother Margaret, who passed away in September 2018. Incredible […]
Chynna Marston — ambassador and face of horseracing broadcaster Sky Racing, and poster girl for recycled racehorses — is being investigated by Racing NSW after being reported to the RSPCA for her alleged mistreatment of animals. Last week, in news that raises questions about her high-profile appointment to Tabcorp’s Sky Thoroughbred Central, Marston and her […]
The news today is that the squeaky voiced greyhound fan Peter ‘Scooter’ Gleeson is making a comeback to the media after sensationally being sacked from his long-time various roles with Rupert Murdoch owned companies when discovered to be a dirty low, down plagiarist who regularly stole other people’s work and republished it claiming to be […]
Once upon newspapers had racing editors. Some of them even did their job and checked that everything on the racing page was tickety boo before they declared correct weight and put the paper to print. Things have changed now. The Courier-Mail hardly has any racing writers left at all, and there are no editors. That’s […]
In a sensation Sky Racing personality Chynna Marston has this week been placed on the Racing NSW exclusion due due to animal welfare concerns. As a person on the exclusion list Marston is not permitted to be provided with any retired thoroughbred that has been domiciled in NSW for the majority of their life, or […]
All the offices are closed at the moment so we cannot get official confirmation this evening, but the information we are receiving is that the ban relates to the severe malnourishment of a retired racehorse in her care that left the horse near death when discovered. Adding grist to the mill of concerns is that […]
On 2 July 2020 Chynna Marston was fined $10 o0o by then Racing NSW Chief Steward Marc Van Gestel for animal welfare offences. The penalty was suspended for 2 years on the basis that Marston did not reoffend. A condition was placed on her that she was not permitted to have any more than 16 horses […]
We have been subjected to a degree of online abuse this evening, which is okay by us within the limits of how it was thrown, for we believe in free speech and expression of opinion, as long as it free and fair and doesn’t involve calling being rock spiders. But in light of this reaction […]
