Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
