Jockey Cam – What the Hell’s the Point?
The boffins at Racing Victoria very rarely get their big ideas right. For proof look at the now abandoned mandatory scanning of international runners in the Melbourne Cup; the now abandoned ‘race only 6 days a week’ policy; the now abandoned whip-free race meeting; the all but abandoned idea to build a new national peak […]
Will the AFL Drug Cover Up Scandal Cost Gillon McLachlan the Chairmans Role at Racing Victoria?
There is increasing speculation in racing circles that if Gillon McLachlan is proven to have knowledge of the AFL’s drug testing cover-up practices – and to date he hasn’t been – it may cost him the long-mooted Chairman’s role at Racing Victoria. Racing is a sport that is dependent both on being free of drugs, […]
Decision Reserved in the Racing Case of the Year
The seminal case of Goadsby v Harness Racing NSW – a matter that will have far-reaching ramifications for licensees and racing officials across all three codes – was heard yesterday in the NSW Supreme Court. The judge in the case has reserved their decision, meaning that they need some time to go back over the […]
Nevesh Blames it on a Cloud
Does the Gold Coast race track manager Nevesh Ramdahni ever take responsibility for anything? Will the sycophantic members of the QLD racing media ever put ask the hard questions that might force him to admit at least some fault in relatiion to the Gold Coast track fail disaster? Judging by this interview between Radio TAB […]
Shane From Shellharbour Has His Say on Media Rights, Cutaway Rails and Online Two Up
Dear Peter Profit Unfortunately what Mark Latham didn’t mention was how the AFL beat the NRL in the media rights deal by the length of the Flemington straight. In NSW racing the Hawkesbury club went into administration, we have TAB tracks out west that dont even have semaphore boards, and PVL sits back and allows […]
Mad Mark Latham is Nothing But a Spear Chucker For the Rich Racing Men Who are Really All Tip and No Iceberg
The secretly funded new seemingly anti-Peter V’landys racing website thestraight.com.au broke new ground in its apparent campaign against the Racing NSW CEO by reciting from a speech given to the largely irrelevant upper house in the state given by the totally irrelevant MP Mark Latham under parliamentary privilege. https://thestraight.com.au/all-tip-no-iceberg-latham-launches-extraordinary-parliamentary-attack-on-part-time-peter-vlandys/ In his speech the madcap former […]
Trainers Desperate For Their Horses to Get a Run Turn Away From the Poly Tracks in Droves
Nominations for the maiden at Beaudesert on Saturday An incredible 206 nominations have been received for the 8 race Beaudesert meeting on Saturday, bigger numbers than I have seen anywhere outside of a feature metropolitan meeting for a long, long time. The Toomoomba meeting on Thursday has huge numbers too, with 156 h0rses nominated to […]
Tasracing Take Out a Half-Page Ad in the Paper Saying ‘We’re a Bunch of Clueless Morons Who Don’t Know What Day of the Week it Is, or How to Read the Racing Calendar’
This above is a paid half-page advertisement that Tasracing had taken out in the Hobart Mercury this week to promote the three codes of racing taking place over the Easter period. Unfortunately is doesn’t promote anything at all, other than Tasracing’s rank stupidity. There aren’t any harness races at Elwick in Hobart on Friday, they […]
Pissing in the Wind – The Human Participant Drug Testing Regime is Draconian
We are going to have a lot more to say about this case in due course, for it is unfair discrimination of the highest degree. First though have a read of the RIB decision, so you know what we are talking about. Don’t be put off by the fact that it’s an NZ trot case. […]