Leslight 4-Week Suspension For Racist Remark Reduced to $1000 Fine

Apprentice jockey Tyler Leslight’s 4-week suspension for calling rival rider Wanderson D’Avila a ‘black c**t’ has this week been reduced to a $1000 fine by the Racing Appeals Panel. In making its decision the Panel found that the sentence issued to Leslight was disproportionate to those handed down to other offenders against the rule, including […]

Tips and Rumors From Around the Traps

Which leading Sydney trot trainer who is already facing one substance rule breach charge after one of their horses returned a positive swab to Levamisole may soon find themselves facing another to do with a different horse? Is it true that the recenty departed former CEO of the Ipswich Turf Club turned up to a […]

You Can’t Call Footy Players Monkeys, and Quite Rightly Too – So Why Do We Continue to Call Redheads Apes?

‘Ranga’ is an abbreviation of ‘orangutan’. Used mostly in Australia, the word has gradually spread across the world and has now been adopted to refer to all redheads. It’s thought that is began being used as a derogatory word around the 1990s in Australia school yards. https://gingerparrot.co.uk/ginger-dictionary/ranga-definition/ Bazza McKeown my ginger haired associate and friend […]

Don’t Believe That a Brown Clown Could Call a Black Man a Monkey? – Then Watch This Story of the Tama Uli

My wife’s great-grandfather Turaroi Tokoma, the well muscled man in the picture without the shirt. Tokoma spoke four languages by the age of 12 – German, English, Samoan, Indonesian and 3 native tongues – without ever having been formally taught or going to school. Most Samoans called him a monkey too. Many white skinned people […]

These Racing Writers From the Murdoch Papers Sure are Slow Learners

A growing feud between jockeys Bradley Appo and Sariah Champkin threatens to engulf the Toowoomba Turf Club community. Veteran rider Appo and apprentice Champkin have both been suspended following a July 1 trackwork incident. Appo has been banned for three months after Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards determined he was riding dangerously toward Champkin during […]

Sariah Champkin is a Racist – And By Their Actions the QRIC Stewards Are Too

Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards today concluded an inquiry into an incident which occurred at the Toowoomba Turf Club on the morning of the 14 April 2023, whereby a racially derogatory remark was directed toward Jockey Bradley Appo. After taking written and verbal evidence from both Jockey Bradley Appo and Apprentice Sariah Champkin, as […]

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