Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What the hell is the point of this Steward’s footage from the Gold Coast on Saturday? We went to have a look for the head on of Tim Clark’s atrocious ride on the fave in The Wave, and this is all we got. It’s pretty much exactly the same as the standard Sky footage of […]
Poor Emily Pomfrett went to work at Gatton today and she hasn’t come home. Instead the loving young mother, partner and daughter lies in a critical condition in the ICU at the PA Hospital fighting for her life, because a horse named Wanta Willow went crazy in the mounting yard, flipped, threw, and crushed the […]
We’ve mentioned before the troubling trend of many micro-bookmakers, who seem to be arbitraging the regulations and taxation situation. Another story, we talked about operators giving people the run-around for deposits. It appears that whilst Victoria might give a bookmakers licence to my cat if I could get it a suitable ID card, NSW on […]
A still shot of the fall at St Mary’s on Monday Hot on the heels of the death of Orbisyn at the crossing past the winning post at Doomben comes a 7 horse pile up at the crossing at the St Mary’s trots. Now the St Mary’s track is a whole lot rougher than Doomben […]
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That’s not Orbisyn. But it is the crossing at which he fell. I was there at the Doomben track yesterday with my young child, having a family day out together at the races. Orbisyn got the green curtain treatment after sliding out at the corner, just after the crossing where the access to the track […]
New Zealand has this whizz bang racing integrity system under which race day stewards no longer charge trainers and riders and hit them with a fine or suspension on the spot after they breach the rules. Instead the stewards lay a charge against a licensee, and a panel of ‘independent’ adjudicators who are paid thousands of […]
Nigel McGrath is a repeat offending horse drug hitter and race cheat. He has never been done for using a jigger on his charges, but it doesn’t really matter in the context of this story. What matters is that McGrath, like Darren Weir, was a trainer who was willing to break any law in the […]
Bruce ‘Snowy’ Clark, the author of the stories about Darren Weir that we dissected yesterday, has fired back with a further Racenet article in his own defence. It’s a good one too, real good indeed. All in one article Clark unleashes his vitriol on Peter V’Landys; Damian Oliver; the News Limited press and its journos; […]
Four months ago we framed a betting market on when Racing Victoria CEO Andrew Jones would be sacked. The 100-1 we bet about it being in 2024 shows exactly why we shouldn’t be bookies. The coming year for Jones sacking is now the red hot $1.10 favourite in the betting market, after the owners association […]
