Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The 6th at Beaudesert this afternoon was delayed due to a snake reaching the winning post first. They say it was big one too. One brave member of the track staff shooed it away. I bet the job ad didn’t mention snake catching as a required skill. Only in Queensland. The royal state of racing […]
2 Units latest video release for brain dead morons. If you can work out what the hell they’re on about you’re doing better than me. 2 Units is a company owned by David Strehlau, who calls himself the Sultan, and Nicholas Foote, a pair of 30 something self-styled form experts who dress and act like […]
The ‘someone’ who was attended to by ambulance officers at the Rockhampton meeting on Tuesday was the assistant starter Bevon Burnell. The same Bevon Leslie Burnell who appeared in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court at 9.00am the next morning. Coincidence? Which North QLD jockey is couch surfing at the moment after first his wife walked out […]
I can turn and walk away, or I can fire the gunStaring at the sky, staring at the sunWhichever I choose, it amounts to the sameAbsolutely nothing I’m aliveI’m deadI’m the strangerKilling an Arab – The Cure The man who murdered Melton is off to Abu Dhabi to kill purebred Arab racing too. I speak […]
South Australian gallops trainer Ryan Balfour’s escalating pattern of erratic and aggressive behavior has taken a new twist after he was this week arrested and charged with serious criminal trespass and assault against his equally unbalanced estranged brother Todd, himself a former trainer who shot to national infamy this year after he pulled down the […]
JASON PIPER Central QLD jockey with a predilection for sex with teenage transexual street kids. In 2005 when he was 25 years old Piper stabbed one of them to death, a 16yo urchin named Ronald Brown. Jailed for life. The QRIC granted Piper a trackwork riders license when he was released on parole after serving […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has been advised that a licensed jockey was arrested by Queensland Police for an offence against the Criminal Code. Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Catherine Clark said that the participant’s licence has been suspended immediately. “QRIC’s role is to maintain the integrity of racing so the jockey will be stood down […]
Did SA trot trainer Shane Loone have a bad day in court this week? Whose urine was really in Jack Brown’s sample? Will the HRNSW Stewards actually pre-race blood test some horses in the market at the Breeders Challenge finals meeting tonight at Menangle? Gai and Adrian tried their hardest to set the Moonee Valley […]
Craig Williams earned $400 000 by riding the winners of the Everest and the Kosciuszko. Now that’s a mountain anyone would like to climb. Ciaron Maher’s earn for the day was even better. He took home a paycheck of $1.2 million for the day. Which Tasmanian Steward is refusing to work under the current chief […]
Andrew Rule is one person who certainly won’t be on Ben Melham and Jamie Kah’s Christmas card this year, after the pair blew up big time after reading a story about Kah penned by the award winning crime and racing writer that was published yesterday in the Sun Herald (see story below). Melham was the […]
