EXCLUSIVE – Tommy Doesn’t Tip – Much
Hot tips. Hit jobs. Sweet brother. Oh Tommy, how dumb are you?
EXCLUSIVE – For the Sake of Clarity
The picture published on Racenet of Tommy Berry and Kayla Nisbet is a tad misleading. Berry and Nisbet aren’t partners. They are in-laws. Kayla Nisbet’s sister Sharnee is Berry’s partner. The cases are unrelated, as the NSW Stewards say. Sort of anyway. They picked it up off Berry’s phone. There is a story goes with […]
EXCLUSIVE – Well the Tommy Berry Thing Sinks Down a Whole Lot Deeper Than It Seems
There are some strange whispers floating around about the Tommy Berry thing at the moment, the sort of thing you would usually discount, had they not come from multiple unrelated sources, each filling a part of the picture that none of the other sources could know. I am not for a second saying that any […]
EXCLUSIVE – Funny That
The Rain on the Eagle Farm Plain Doesn’t Fall the Same
Eagle Farm and Doomben are located quite literally directly across the road from each other, so close that anyone with a half decent arm could throw throw a cricket ball from one track to the other, no worries at all. What you see above are rainfall and irrigation reports submitted to Racing Australia. We believe, […]
Racing as Art
Romero Britto is world famous Brazilian/American artist who has sold millions of prints of his ‘pop art fused with cubism’ style paintings, designed postage stamps for the United Nations, and designed sets for the Super Bowl half time show. This year he was commissioned to design the official artwork of the Kentucky Derby, to be […]
A Rather Curious Question
Toni Austin has been charged by the QRIC Stewards with providing them false or misleading information in relation to the Birdsville jigger affair. This perfidy occurred some months ago. Last Saturday Toni Austin won a share of the $116 000 first prize cheque for her horse Echo Point winning the Country Cups Challenge at Doomben. […]
A Very Wise Letter From a Reader
Archie Why hasn’t Gerald Ryan been charged or or barred from racing his horses in Victoria? The racing integrity unit has conducted its interviews with his former employees and let’s say just one employee said he was assaulted isn’t that enough for him to be barred from VIC and stewards to reopen the investigation? What […]
The Jigger Man Wins a $200 000 Showcase Race – Part 1 – Yeah Good
Todd Austin trained Echo Point until Ric McMahon got with the jigger that they he wanted him to use in trackwork on ‘one of ‘ his Birdsville Cup runners. I use the inverted commas because not only one Cup runner was jiggered, both were. The photographer just didn’t catch the other one in her photos. […]
The Jigger Man Wins a $200 000 Showcase Race – Part 2 – Now the Sparks are Flying
Stewards have slapped the husband and wife duo of Todd and Toni Austin, along with jockey Ric McMahon with a string of charges relating to the alleged Birdsville Cup jigger scandal from August this year. Stewards allege the trio were involved in the scandal ahead of the famous bush meeting on August 30, when a […]