Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the name on the bottom of the press release? Nicole Rowles. The new QRIC media officer. Up until December 2021 Rowles was doing freelance media consulting through her own company, and then up until she took the QRIC job she was working for an outfit called K.K.&O. Agency. One of her and KKO’s clients […]
Shane Larkins started his Stewarding career in Christchurch, New Zealand. He crossed the ditch and moved to HRV as a Steward, and then went on to take up the role of Chief at the trots in Tasmania, a thankless task if there ever was one. After that he went back to HRV as Chief for […]
Another great Irishman with a bit of Ernie in his name So what do you make of the Birdsville jigger inquiry? My view is this. Ric McMahon is lying like fuck, and then lying some more when he claims not to know what a jigger is, or how to use it. That’s bollocks. McMahon moved […]
The Stewards report into the Luke Tarrant fall at the Sunshine Coast last week has been finalised. It was no-one’s fault that Tarrant fell they found. And Shane Dye didn’t get Veandercross beaten in the ’92 Caulfield Cup either. Puhlease. The title says it all. You can read out earlier story about the fall at […]
Bruce Clark’s racenet columns in recent times have been very hard to digest and understand. That’s because they don’t make any sense. Gobbledegook rarely does. He doesn’t get any better this week. Just listen to this shit. Darren Weir was not an animal abuser Snowy claims. He kept a living bird aviary as solace from the […]
The former chief executive officer of TasRacing resigned for “personal reasons” just two months after a workplace culture review delivered a scathing assessment of the organisation’s senior leaders. Now, he is running the national peak body for racing in Australia. Paul Eriksson, who was appointed as CEO of TasRacing in 2019, resigned in June despite extending his contract with […]
IN the next few hours the Tasmanian Govt – via TasRacing – are going to release a report into certain matters that occurred under former CEO Paul Eriksson’s watch. Eriksson of course is the man who walked out of Tassie under an unreported (by anyone but us) cloud, and waltzed straight into the job of […]
The Ric McMahon case comes on for mention in the Magistrates Court this morning. We are told by our friends in the north that the great racing man Wally Tutt, a former District Court judge who is making a comeback to the law as a solicitor after many years post being forced by his age […]
This jockey wasn’t caught with a jigger. The charges are based on the pictures taken by an innocent, well meaning photographer that were spotted by us, and published in a story on this website. In the absence of admissions or lag ups, this the best the prosecution got. Which means that the whole case hinges […]
Well we were wrong about Neil Boyle being a Steward in QLD, but not by far, and we are not wrong about the rest. Boyle is now a Steward in Northern NSW. I bet PVL didn’t know that he used jiggers as a trainer when he appointed him. It gets worse. Since we published the […]
