Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ben Yole trained 49 of the 60 runners in races 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 at Burnie on Friday night. He had only 2 of the 8 in Race Two, and in Race Five he had just 3 of the 9. They were the only two that Chainsaw lost all night. In fact […]
The Victorian Stewards have this afternoon created a metropolitan racing precedent by taking race 5 at Flemington off one of the joint dead heat winners My Yankee Girl after determining that the mare’s rider Blake Shinn had breached the whip rules to such an extent that he had gained a decided unfair advantage over the […]
Chinchilla is a town in mourning. Everywhere in Queensland is, including here. Tomorrow the town full of tragedy is going to race in honour of our fallen heroes. I wish I didn’t live a thousand miles away, because I want to be there. We all do. Hopefully every club that is racing in the State […]
In a report tabled in NSW parliament on Tuesday, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) outlined how Mr Fuller breached conflict of interest rules, and reversed its earlier decision to clear him of any wrongdoing. It also called on the new commissioner Karen Webb to clamp down on officer involvement in the corruption-plagued racing industry. […]
The Magistrate in the Weir case says that if the Melbourne Cup winning trainer hadn’t pleaded guilty he would have been going to jail. If that is not a statement that should send chills down every animal abusing cheat’s spine, then I don’t know what it. How the Magistrate reconciles his statement with the fact […]
When Tosel Basil died in December 2018 racing.com – presumably relying on advice from either Ozzie Kheir or Darren Weir – reported that the horse had been spelled after a disappointing rub in the Mooney Valley Cup. That race was run on the 26th of October 2018. Yet on 30 October – four days later […]
Five minutes after we published the previous story about Ryan Wiggins ride on Silver Galaxy in the 2nd race at Doomben today, the Stewards Report went up. Wiggins got away with knocking the horse in the green over completely. WTF? The Stipes say that the horse raced greenly and ducked in of it’s own accord. […]
The news that Darren Weir has today pleaded guilty to criminal charges of animal cruelty in relation to the use of a jigger on three horses spells the end of his career in racing forever, and co-offenders Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond’s too. Although Weir’s four-year disqualification from training relating to the same offence expires […]
Racing Victoria has floated wholesale changes to next year’s Spring Carnival, including moving established Group 1 races. RV has privately met with all three Melbourne clubs and consulted Country Racing Victoria, with an appetite to capture the later part of the year when there is little competition from other sports and the weather is typically […]
In the story below Ray Thomas describes the messages between jockey Tom Berry and punter Zaid (Michael) Miller – aka the Butcher – that we have been publishing on this website (yes we are the racing website referred to) as texts. They are not – they are Whats App messages. Whats App is an encrypted […]
