Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Take a look at this field in a maiden at Traralgon earlier in the week. Every single runner in the race is a 1st starter, and they are all trained by Robert Camilleri. Most of them are legless, although until they jumped no-one knew that except the trainer and his punter mates. They are clever, […]
Ben Yole’s best mate the Tasmanian greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock – who was recently disqualified for life after live baiting after the tail of a pademelon (a small possum sized kangaroo) was found on a lure at his property – has appealed his DQ, claiming that deceitful animal activists had ‘planted’ the tail. It’s a […]
The announcement of the life disqualification of the obviously continued incorrigible live baiter Anthony Bullock is welcome breath of fresh air from a fetid Tasmanian racing environment. Bullock – the mate of Ben Yole, and the man who chainsawed his unwanted horses into pieces and fed them to his hounds – has been put out […]
Anthony Bullock is Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer. He has won 13 of the past 14 State Premierships. Which is probably a good reason why dog racing in the Apple Isle should be shut. It’s well-known that I both like greyhounds as animals, and that I like racing them, and I don’t think that as a […]
The Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club (BGRC) is the exemplar of how to run a race club, as it has proven once again by the outstanding results revealed in this year’s annual report. This is a club that was floundering a decade ago, having recorded 5 successive years of end on end losses, but under the […]
In a strange but progressive and welcomed twist of fate, just a week after posting a brilliant result for yet another financial year – it’s tenth on end – soon the Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club may be no more. At next week’s club AGM it’s members will be asked to vote on an amalgamation with […]
Me the good luck charm with Mick Zammit and his son after the big race. I have known Mick Zammit for 40 years, and my parents knew his parents before that, way back to the days when Mick and Tony’s dad Sammy was a trot trainer. They have always been good people the Zammits, genuine […]
For the 8th consecutive year Queensland harness racing has returned a 7-figure loss, taking the total losses over these 8 years to over $45 million. The only good news is that the loss this has been reduced to ‘only’ a million dollars, but still it is unsustainable in the long term, and something has to […]
Irony of the week is GWIC Chief Steward Wade Birch’s pronounced declaration that hair testing of greyhounds is going to be ramped up during the Million Dollar Chase carnival. It would be a bit hard to hair test the Chief himself wouldn’t it? You could however look at the betting records when he worked as […]
Loading them into the boxes for race 4 at Sandown on Thursday night GAR. 165 – Conduct detrimental to the interests of greyhound racing An offence is committed if a person (including an official): (a) commits or omits to do any act or engages in conduct which is in any way detrimental or prejudicial to […]
