Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Turaroi Tokoma, the slave without the shirt. My kids great-great grandfather. My wife’s great-grandfather – my children’s ancestor – was a slave, stolen from his island home in the waters between the Solomon Islands and PNG, and taken thousands of miles away to labour for white men without wages and at the threat of whipping […]
QUEENSLAND HAS LOST A WONDERFUL RACING MAN – DAN COSTELLO By Phil Purser WHEN Dan Costello lost his long battle with cancer last night in the palliative care section of Redcliffe Hospital, after being admitted there last Wednesday – Queensland lost one of its favourite racing sons far too early at just 67 years of […]
Racing Victoria Chief Executive Aaron Morrison has come out swinging against the Government’s proposed limits on gambling advertisements and the ban on promotions to punters, which the government calls inducements, claiming that it will result in a 30 percent decrease in wagering turnover and lead to job losses and the closure of country tracks. It […]
JD Hayes and Dakotah Keane, pictured above at last night’s Victorian Racing Awards I am a bit confused. I’m quite sure that I saw jockey Dakotah Keane out one night arm in arm with one of the Hayes boys when I was down on one my regular racing trips to Melbourne, not sure which, or […]
Above is the head on view of the interference suffered by the second placed horse Run Like A Girl as a consequence of the leader Queen Olympia abruptly and dramatically shifting out passing the 100m mark in race 4 at Eagle Farm, that led to Ceejay Graham lodging a protect against the winner. Below is […]
The President of the Forbes Jockey Club, one Randal Grayson, has been disqualified for 9 months by Racing NSW Stewards for allowing a mare that he owned named Spectrum’s image to starve near to death. Spectrum’s Image was discovered by a vet lying prone on the ground in an emaciated state a body condition score […]
Queensland’s once greatest trainer Ben Currie is back, as of today. The man we call the Toowo0mba Tornado has won his QCAT appeal against the QRIC decision to refuse him a stable hand license. How the regulator ever came to that decision based on the Currie no fault ruling in the End Assembly case we […]
Not a ‘desirable’ person: This ex-jockey is now banned from setting foot on a racecourse Story by Danny Russell: The Age https://www.theage.com.au/sport/racing/not-a-desirable-person-this-ex-jockey-is-now-banned-from-setting-foot-on-a-racecourse-20260804-p60l6j.html More than 30 years have passed since flamboyant jockey Gavin Eades surfed one of racing’s great highs, punching the air in sheer joy after he was declared the winner of the 1994 Doncaster […]
A magnificently penned response by Edward Rennell to the erasure of Greyhounds from the fabric of so many communities and individuals in New Zealand. Beware Australia, both canine and equine, that the political footprint and influence of racing remains small, no matter how much and how many reports state otherwise. And therein lies the vulnerability […]
Story by Matthew Benns, Daily Telegraph https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/administrator-lashes-australian-turf-club-over-strategic-failures/news-story/5d91fce32767b657876e517b0c666b84 The newly appointed administrator of the Australian Turf Club has given members a scathing report on its lack of accountability, internal controls and strategic vision. The newly appointed administrator of the Australian Turf Club has given members a scathing report on its lack of accountability, internal controls and […]
