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When It Comes to the Dangers of Illegal Offshore Bookies, The RV CEO is Way Off Beam

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago4 months ago

Racing Victoria CEO Aaron Morrison reckons that unlicensed foreign bookies pose a real clear and present danger and threat to Australian racing. https://www.racenet.com.au/news/it-is-a-genuine-threat-racing-victoria-ceos-warning-over-illegal-offshore-bookmakers-20260222 What planet is this bloke living in? Obviously not the same one as me. Once upon a time all the big Victorian punters and bookies bet or bet back with Citibet, the […]

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Poor Darren Weir – Victoria Hung Ned Kelly Too

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago4 months ago

So the Chief Steward in Victoria – Ron Montgomery is his name – goes to lunch last week and tells all the diners that Darren Weir is a million to one of getting his license back when he reapplies for it after his DQ expires, or words to that effect. https://www.racenet.com.au/news/racing-victoria-backs-chief-steward-rob-montgomery-over-comments-on-disgraced-trainer-darren-weir-20260223 Hello. We’re in Salem, […]

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You Wouldn’t Be Dead For Quids

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago

I am not sure that Ka Ying Rising is the greatest sprinter that I have ever seen. Actually I am sure that he is not. Black Caviar is. But the Hong Kong flyer is the second best for sure, bar none. What a horse he is. An absolute and utter freak. Frankel, Winx, Black Caviar, […]

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Kiwi Politicians Love Racing – What a Shame About Us

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago4 months ago

That’s the final resting place of Kiwi, the last to first winner of the 1983 Cup who was bought as a stockhorse by gumboot wearing farmer, and was trained mustering sheep up and down steep hills. Kiwi is the horse who put The Pumper J.A. Cassidy on the map, and showed the whole world the […]

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At Least It Was the Right Horse This Time

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago

Bold Personality is one of the most famous names in Australian racing. Not because the galloper of that name was a champion. Because he ran as Fine Cotton in the famous Eagle Farm ring-in. And here he bobs up again, this time in harness at Redcliffe. Some names should be sacrosanct, his being one of […]

queensland Racing The Gallops

The Blocked Drain Debacle

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago

Cluden Park, a place like no other. Ain’t that the truth. The races in Townsville were abandoned today after a 40mm deluge of rain flooded the back straight. That’s the official story anyway, and in part it is true. After that amount of rain the track almost certainly wouldn’t have been safe to race on, […]

Integrity Racing The QRIC

How Interesting

by : peterprofitracing4 months ago4 months ago

Kim Daly sat on the QLD Racing Review panel. No-one elected him. He was appointed by his childhood mate the Racing Minister. The review panel recommended huge changes to QRIC. QRIC employ the Stewards. And here Kim Daly is. How interesting. It’s only a rort if you are not in on it.

queensland Racing The QRIC

So What’s Going to Happen to the Magic Man’s License, Mr Kelly? – Are You Going to Strip His Too?

by : peterprofitracing5 months ago

There has been a lot said written and said about the QRIC’s proposed changes to license conditions in QLD that will require dog trainers to have ten starters a year before they can get or keep one, and the Deputy Commissioner Kim Kelly has responded to letsgohorseracing to state his side of things. But no-one […]

Racing Tasmania The Gallops

The Hobart Cup Losing Connections Have No Hope in The World of Getting Justice – Whatever That Looks Like

by : peterprofitracing5 months ago

The connections of the beaten horses in the under-distance Hobart Cup appear have no hope, particularly those of the second and third horses. The rules of racing permit protests within a 30-day window after the declaration of correct weight under certain circumstances. But a Chief Steward being made aware of an irregularity in the distance […]

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Tips and Rumors

by : peterprofitracing5 months ago

Drenched to death? Why do so many Group 1 winning gallopers seem to be dying of colic lately? Could it have anything to do the drenches and drips they are being fed? Do as I say, not as I do You’d think the Australian Turf Club would have more things to worry about at the […]