Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Allan Endresz has won his Supreme Court case against the QRIC, and Alligator Blood’s win in the 2021 Magic Million Guineas has been restored. It is the right decision. But it is one with far reaching consequences that are going to shake up the racing world. Let me explain it to you in simple and […]
News out of Racing NSW is that the world’s greatest racing administrator Peter V’Landys has appointed former leading NSW detective Jacqueline Johnstone to the vital role of General Manager Here is what the RNSW press release about the appointment says: Reporting to the Chief Executive, the General Manager – Integrity, together with the Chairman of […]
All words, no action. Welcome to Sydney. The Emerald City of broken racing dreams.
Sydney racing is booming on the prize money side, and in almost every single way, bar one. It’s turned it into the hottest thing since molten lave, and I don’t know why. Sorry, yes I do. Greed, sheer greed. Greedy jockeys, fuelled by the desire for the drug money that is awash in the Sydney […]
AT last a major Stewards’ Panel with the courage to take a stand on excessive use of the whip but how many other states will follow the lead of Racing Victoria? Internationally-experienced jockey Blake Shinn got what he deserved losing a race on protest when stewards ruled that but for his over-use of the whip […]
Ben Yole trained 49 of the 60 runners in races 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 at Burnie on Friday night. He had only 2 of the 8 in Race Two, and in Race Five he had just 3 of the 9. They were the only two that Chainsaw lost all night. In fact […]
The Victorian Stewards have this afternoon created a metropolitan racing precedent by taking race 5 at Flemington off one of the joint dead heat winners My Yankee Girl after determining that the mare’s rider Blake Shinn had breached the whip rules to such an extent that he had gained a decided unfair advantage over the […]
Chinchilla is a town in mourning. Everywhere in Queensland is, including here. Tomorrow the town full of tragedy is going to race in honour of our fallen heroes. I wish I didn’t live a thousand miles away, because I want to be there. We all do. Hopefully every club that is racing in the State […]
In a report tabled in NSW parliament on Tuesday, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) outlined how Mr Fuller breached conflict of interest rules, and reversed its earlier decision to clear him of any wrongdoing. It also called on the new commissioner Karen Webb to clamp down on officer involvement in the corruption-plagued racing industry. […]
The Magistrate in the Weir case says that if the Melbourne Cup winning trainer hadn’t pleaded guilty he would have been going to jail. If that is not a statement that should send chills down every animal abusing cheat’s spine, then I don’t know what it. How the Magistrate reconciles his statement with the fact […]
