Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have been telling people for weeks that PVL was going to introduce rich new feature races in date slots that some of the foolish Principal Racing Authorities that are backing Racing Victoria’s mad-arse plans wouldn’t like, haven’t we? Well gee, we must have a crystal ball. Or an ounce of nous and a smidgen […]
To understand Peter V’Landys, and how he thinks and works, you need to know a little about history old and new, a smidgen of Greek mythology, a wee tad about religion too. V’landys was born on a little island off the coast south of Athens called Kythera, which is spelt in a variety of ways […]
A letter from the Australian Media and Communications Authority (ACMA) sits unopened in an office in downtown Willemstad, the capital city of Curacao, a Caribbean island that has become a centre for much of the world’s unregulated gambling. The letter is a formal warning to a company which facilitates online casino and sportsbetting, informing them […]
There is understandable lament concerning miserable attendance numbers at live racing programs. It shames me when The Meadowlands offers a boffo card, and the attendance is spotty. I have some plausible deniability because I live several hundred miles away, have only been to New Jersey once and have never visited The Big M. However, I […]
This is race that is the immediate focus of attention of the Stewards investigating racing corruption. The horse that blew from $3.70 to $6.oo is Blistering, in the orange and white stripes, ridden by Lewis German. He is a crook, a thief, a cheat and a bum. The investigation is ongoing, but one thing is […]
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards today concluded an inquiry into an incident which occurred at the Toowoomba Turf Club on the morning of the 14 April 2023, whereby a racially derogatory remark was directed toward Jockey Bradley Appo. After taking written and verbal evidence from both Jockey Bradley Appo and Apprentice Sariah Champkin, as […]
JAPANESE-born jockey Yoko Ota is not a dreamer but she has spent half her life living in optimistic hope on a sometimes frightening roller coast ride in racing. The 35-year-old always wanted to be a jockey but her applications to join an apprentice school in Japan were twice turned down. She read of a Japanese apprentice jockey […]
In one of the most inane announcements ever made, Victorian Jockeys Association union boss Matt Hyland has declared that jockeys do not want 10 race cards in the city on a Saturday. The hoops are already burned out by the overly onerous Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday schedule says Hyland, and a 10 race […]
Click to access Stewards-Report-Tenille-Ranger-and-David-Silver-2022.pdf David Silver is a failed syndicator and, in my view – and it is a very subjective view, held by me – a very bitter and twisted man. Silver is a conspiracy theorist when it comes to all things racing that he doesn’t succeed in (most), and for reasons beyond my […]
A horse trainer who sold a non-existent horse for $40,000 and defrauded horse owners will serve seven months home detention. Mitchell Paul Kerr, 30, appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Tuesday to be sentenced on three charges – two of obtaining by deception and another of forgery. He earlier pleaded guilty to all three and was […]
