Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
“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 […]
I agree. A thorough examination of cash payments made into the bank accounts of Adam Hamilton and/or those closest to him would make for a fascinating case study into the ethics of race writing and ‘alleged’ mainstream journalism too. Being Petty am I Ad-man? Ten ton per ain’t petty to most, if you know what […]
Archie Last seasons Premiership winning Toowoomba stable seems to have lost their recipe. From the stable’s last 25 runners in Toowoomba, it has had just 1 winner. I wonder if it might have something to do with their horses now having to be stabled where the cameras are on them after acceptance time, with the […]
There are about 4500 patched bikies in the country and a number of them own racehorses, the training fees they are paying could come from (proceeds of) illicit drugs or extortion. But racing doesn’t know that until they (the bikies) have been convicted of something. Racing must do better with the due diligence of (racehorse) ownership in […]
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club and man that we call Winnie the Pooh, claims to be an animal welfare expert. Retirement farms for horses are not enough, and the industry needs to find other pathways following retirement, he beats his chest and proclaims. Just like the Pooh declares to anyone […]
The ‘adopted son’ of Hong Kong, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, dressed in a traditional Chinese costume, practised Tai-chi at a function with the elderly. His mate Johnny must have been out the back reading Mao’s little red book on the throne. John Messara AM wouldn’t be out the back in the shadows trying to sabotage his one […]
This is the cover page of a feature story about Toowoomba trainer Tony Sears in this month’s edition of Racing Queensland’s ‘Race’ Magazine. My mail suggests that RQ may at sometime before the end of the year come to regret their slavish praise of Sears. I’m not to going to tell you why right now. […]
You’ve probably seen all over the news about how the Peter V’Landys led Racing NSW is taking the other racing states bar Tasmania to the Supreme Court seeking orders that they hand over all documents relating to the Racing Victoria led cartel’s secret plans to isolate PVL with the aim of ousting him. Good luck […]
It’s little known to most racing folk, but the CEO of Racing Victoria Andrew Jones is somewhat of a jack of all trades, but seemingly a master of none. One of Jones trades – a failed one – is that he is also a screenwriter. He wrote the script for the movie The Honourable Wally […]
So this is how Ben Dorries, the golden boy of QRIC and supposedly Queensand’s premier racing writer – neophyte is a better word – sees racing. A jockey stops riding and sits up without any cause whatsoever at the 50m mark on a horse and costs his horse – and the punters who backed it […]
