Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I’m just guessing about the man with the phone, NZ’s leading bloodstock agent Peter Lagan, bidding for Leeton, Australia businessman Michael Boots, but with leading buyers of yore Emilio Rosati and Dr Jim Giumelli absent from the sales this year, then by a process of logical deduction who else could it have been? When you […]
I wonder how the Racing Minister feels about in the inherent sexism of the Innisfail Jockey Club’s tradies and ladies day? What’s a tradie and who’s a lady, and how do you vet a lady tradie so that they can get in free? Do they have to pull their dacks down to prove that they […]
QRIC Chief Steward Josh Adams can hardly claim impartiality when he regularly chairs panels with his brother-in-law William Wain. Wain, who commenced working for QRIC in July last year, was employed as a CAT Steward, whose prime responsibility is conducting compliance inspections in stables on and around race-day. So, the question is why are the […]
Hall of Fame trainers Gai Waterhouse and Chris Waller have openly rebuked Australian Turf Club proposals to sell Rosehill Gardens racecourse during a sometimes-heated club members meeting on Tuesday night. Waterhouse‘s address to the meeting was leaked to Racenet by multiple sources – and racing’s First Lady did not hold back. She criticised the two […]
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff, the last Liberal leader still in government left standing, has made the politically suicidal decision to call a snap election, more than a year before its due. His maniacally bad judgement is set to have huge ramifications for racing in the State. At the moment Tassie has 25 members of parliament, […]
Is it true that three prominent Cairns based trainers were hauled into the Stewards room last week to face charges after having horses return positive swabs to arsenic? How can these trainers rumored excuse of contamination stand up, when others training out of the exact same complex haven’t returned any positives to the substance? Will […]
As you the reader will know, we single-handed broke the story of the QRIC’s cuts to the number of vets and swab attendants on duty at Queensland race meetings and ran it hard, calling the integrity body’s actions every name under the sun, all of them which fit. After we’d exposed the plan and told […]
The knockers are out with their knives opposing the sale of Rosehill to create 25 000 new homes where the track currently is a land starved, unaffordable city in which young people largely can’t afford to achieve the great Australian dream by buying themselves a home. Are these anti’s kidding themselves, or are they simply […]
Huge congratulations to Racing NSW and its Racing Mates program leader Pat Webster, trainer of the former Group 1 star Happy Clapper. Horse racing is a terribly tough game, and the pressures on participants are enormous. It’s the reason that we can all name a trainer or rider who has died from an overdose or […]
How about this one then? Jockey Simon Marshall believes that he has cause to lodge a protest against his mount Tristanagh’s stablemate Malibu Magic, who had been backed for a fortune, in the 1989 Magic Millions. Marshall seeks direction from both horse’s legendary trainer J.B. Cummings. Bart decides that it would be bad for business […]
