Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Does anyone remember the so-called Cobram race fixing rort from a couple of years ago? The one that saw Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack and Mark Pitt charged with criminal offences and convicted, with the convictions later overturned on appeal? It was a nightmare for the subsequently acquitted star duo, one that could quite easily have ended […]
Gold Coast Greg says he hopes itS tomato. BBQ is for Kiwis and Blues. We don’t cop that type of squeeze north of the Tweed.
Take that Kev you wanker. Picture taken in the foyer of Parliament House the day after Jules knocked him off. With a little help from her friends. What the factions giveth Kevin 07, the factions taketh away. You ever met anyone who has hi-fived a Prime Minister sportsfans? Has anyone? Yeah. Me. The new QLD […]
QRIC Stewards toady gave consideration to a request of review from trainer Phillip Sears in relation to the findings that when presented to race at the Rockhampton Greyhound Racing Club meeting held on 1st March 2023, that Crème De Monte, when examined by the attending veterinary officer prior to racing, was found to be in season […]
David Moodie was once the Chairman of Racing Victoria. He was also the paedophile trainer Gerald Ryan’s biggest owner, and his greatest supporter. When Dan Nikolic spoke out about Ryan’s attack on him as an apprentice, and other jockey’s who had been victims of the grub trainer’s abuse or attempted abuse joined in the chorus […]
The hot word on the street is that Jim Murdoch QC is soon to be appointed as the inaugural Chairperson of the QLD Racing Appeals Tribunal, the body that is soon to assume responsibility for the majority of immediate objections to decisions made by Stewards in the State north of the Tweed. If this is […]
Racing Victoria remind me of the kid who packs his bat and ball up when you bowl him middle stump in a game of backyard cricket and runs home to mummy and says Mama those boys are mean. Or they would if it were not for one thing. We are not playing in the back […]
Just when you thought racing politics couldn’t get any murkier. It was industry gossip late last year that Racing NSW wouldn’t pay rich strapper bonuses, paid to the handler of the winning horse, if the winning trainer was licenced outside of New South Wales. The common reaction was, to paraphrase, ‘surely not?’, considering that for […]
Animal welfare investigations are growing in number and complexity are they? This is what the NZ RIB Commissioner Mike Clement – a man who had never even been to the races before he was appointed to the job – claims. Really? Where is the evidence of this so-called increase in animal welfare cases in New […]
Many didn’t realise how deeply the Racing Minister was grieving today at Doomben where Grace Grace was keeping her long-standing commitment to the BRC to celebrate International Women’s day at the track. The reason for the Minister’s grief was the recent loss of her much-loved uncle, her mother’s older brother Gerardo Bellino, the Fitzgerald era […]
