Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The hot word on the street is that Jim Murdoch QC is soon to be appointed as the inaugural Chairperson of the QLD Racing Appeals Tribunal, the body that is soon to assume responsibility for the majority of immediate objections to decisions made by Stewards in the State north of the Tweed. If this is […]
Racing Victoria remind me of the kid who packs his bat and ball up when you bowl him middle stump in a game of backyard cricket and runs home to mummy and says Mama those boys are mean. Or they would if it were not for one thing. We are not playing in the back […]
Just when you thought racing politics couldn’t get any murkier. It was industry gossip late last year that Racing NSW wouldn’t pay rich strapper bonuses, paid to the handler of the winning horse, if the winning trainer was licenced outside of New South Wales. The common reaction was, to paraphrase, ‘surely not?’, considering that for […]
Animal welfare investigations are growing in number and complexity are they? This is what the NZ RIB Commissioner Mike Clement – a man who had never even been to the races before he was appointed to the job – claims. Really? Where is the evidence of this so-called increase in animal welfare cases in New […]
Many didn’t realise how deeply the Racing Minister was grieving today at Doomben where Grace Grace was keeping her long-standing commitment to the BRC to celebrate International Women’s day at the track. The reason for the Minister’s grief was the recent loss of her much-loved uncle, her mother’s older brother Gerardo Bellino, the Fitzgerald era […]
Winton ‘Big Deal’ Veall is one of Cairns most colorful racing characters. What color exactly is up for debate. Last time we heard about Big Deal – an avowed fan of Frank Sinatra, and wannabe impersonator – he was at the Cairns Cup meeting squiring around a young lady of the night who was up […]
A parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Baliffs or english landlords Ned Kelly in the Jerilderie Letter, describing Victorian Police. He was a good judge our Ned. Sal Perna was a bull-necked, wombat headed, heavy set, mean eyed former copper who in 2010 became […]
Are we the only ones who reckon that the Gloucester Park race programming is so bad that it atrocious? At a time when harness racing is for various reasons rapidly losing marketing share because of it’s lack of relevance and appeal to the ordinary person, the sport has become increasingly reliant on wagering revenue for […]
To date we have given Queensland’s new non-TAB race meeting vision provider Regional Cast an easy run, mainly on the basis that anyone has to be better than the previous provider On The Bit Racing, who were absolute shockers. But we are not so sure anymore, for on the evidence before us it seems that […]
“Our trainers toil away caring for their horses, providing secure employment for their staff, building and investing in infrastructure for today and for the future, and ultimately, delivering the racing product daily around the country “In essence, these trainers are fulfilling their charter. For Racing Australia sadly, you, the Board, cannot say the same. “It […]
