Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Once upon newspapers had racing editors. Some of them even did their job and checked that everything on the racing page was tickety boo before they declared correct weight and put the paper to print. Things have changed now. The Courier-Mail hardly has any racing writers left at all, and there are no editors. That’s […]
In a sensation Sky Racing personality Chynna Marston has this week been placed on the Racing NSW exclusion due due to animal welfare concerns. As a person on the exclusion list Marston is not permitted to be provided with any retired thoroughbred that has been domiciled in NSW for the majority of their life, or […]
All the offices are closed at the moment so we cannot get official confirmation this evening, but the information we are receiving is that the ban relates to the severe malnourishment of a retired racehorse in her care that left the horse near death when discovered. Adding grist to the mill of concerns is that […]
On 2 July 2020 Chynna Marston was fined $10 o0o by then Racing NSW Chief Steward Marc Van Gestel for animal welfare offences. The penalty was suspended for 2 years on the basis that Marston did not reoffend. A condition was placed on her that she was not permitted to have any more than 16 horses […]
We have been subjected to a degree of online abuse this evening, which is okay by us within the limits of how it was thrown, for we believe in free speech and expression of opinion, as long as it free and fair and doesn’t involve calling being rock spiders. But in light of this reaction […]
You can take Billie Jean and stick it up your clacker as far as I am concerned, and stick Thriller up the same Khyber too. The greatest music video ever made is the one for Countdown that launched the career of AC-DC into the stratosphere. It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna […]
Singapore racing is effectively over, but this story is not. The reaction from some in world racing after Monday’s stunning announcement that the Singapore Turf Club would cease racing after 180 years, in October 2024, was ‘how sad’ but then, far too soon from some, ‘what was your favourite Singapore racing memory?” Maybe blame the […]
A former police officer who engaged in dodgy dealings with a Queensland council and the state’s racing body was trying to keep his head above water financially, a court has been told. The former owner of Landfill Logistics had agreements to pay a council executive a $1.5 million kickback among other rorts and he also […]
G’day Phil Happy as always to make corrections when required, which has been done with the error admitted. Also happy to publish correspondence such as your own. Be aware though that your assertions are incorrect in some aspects too, which I shall point out in the Author’s Comments underneath your published message. Glass houses and […]
