Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see at the top is the official Stewards report for race 5 at Emerald TAB meeting in Central QLD today. Not content with jockeys hitting horses with jiggers – or perhaps as punishment for it – now they are giving jolts and volts direct to the riders themselves. I’m not sure if anyone […]
I like taking note of quotes from smart men too. In racing, they are generally men who can count. After all, it’s a game of numbers and percentages isn’t it? A reduction in turnover from $160 million to $60 million isn’t a loss of 60%. It’s a drop of 62.5%. A 60% reduction would have […]
It is clearly unacceptable to breed dogs for racing and not take responsibility for the welfare of all dogs which are bred, irrespective of their racing ability. Alan McSporran, the rich kid turned lawyer who wrought havoc on racing, and then got sacked from the CCC. So here is the issue. According to numbers published […]
I have just got off the phone to Mr M. Butterworth esq. Triple NZ Trotting Cup winning owner, Spring Champion Stakes winning owner of the most promising 3YO in Australasia, sportsman, lover of Meg, enthusiast of life, and cleaner up of incontinent cat’s mess. It’s an odd mix for sure, but Melbourne Merv is no […]
Wayne Pasterfield – He’s a damn good lawyer this bloke Tommy Berry will be choking on his corn flakes this morning after reading the decisions made yesterday by the NSW Stewards in relation to jockeys Kayla Nisbet and Jack Martin taking slings for tips from owner and professional punter Jacob Hoffman, and once he recovers […]
South Australian racing has descended from a much-troubled tragedy into an utter farce. The year is only 19 days old, and already we’ve seen: Three Port Lincoln race meetings called off in a row A Murray Bridge race meeting first rescheduled to a ridiculously late mid afternoon time slot ‘reasons of animal welfare’ and to […]
See the horse that I have circled? Do you see it wearing any blinkers? If you do, take your own off. There aren’t any. He is not wearing blinkers at all. Which creates a bit of a problem. Why? Because the official racing Queensland form guide and results says that he is. So does RISA, […]
Brown Rice with some rather good riders that he trained, back in the days when he was still young and beautiful Within literally minutes of publishing our exclusive story breaking the news of RJW Johnson’s retirement from the fitness and weight reduction for jockeys game we began getting deluged with messages from tearful readers who […]
It’s official. Ronald James William Johnson – aka RJ, the jockey fitness guru also known as the Brown Rice Man – has officially retired. For the seventeenth time. The news has a come as a great shock to his close friends Wayne Gannon and Gary Nolan, who have spent the night in lockdown attempting to […]
Determined to avoid the hottest part of the day, Racing SA has pushed back the starting time of Saturday’s meeting at Murray Bridge by three hours. With a top temperature of 42 degrees forecast at 1.30pm and then a cool change taking effect in the evening, the first race has been moved from 12.17pm to […]
