Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Prior to the appointment of the controversial and now departed Robert ‘Bobajob’ Macauley as the CEO of Greyhound Racing NSW, the Principal Racing Association for the dog racing industry had its office at Oxford Street in Darlinghurst near Kings Cross, a somewhat strange location for an outfit presiding over a sport that raced at 2 […]
Most people are unaware that there is a Commission of Inquiry into Greyhound NSW going on at the moment, because there has been bugger all media coverage of it, but it’s happening. The inquiry is being held under Part 8 of the Greyhound Racing Act (NSW) 2017, a piece of legislation that gives the Greyhound […]
Something strange is going on at Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW), something very strange indeed. There are supposedly unconnected connections happening left, right and centre, and the unconnected connected people are making a motza through their unconnected connections. If you know what I mean. The law firm Pryor, Tzannes and Wallis that was formerly owned by […]
In the same week that the animal activists scored a huge win by shutting down greyhound racing in New Zealand, a bloody dog has to come out and die on us. Khatanga Tex had only just turned three when it suffered a catastrophic injury on the turn out of the h0me straight in the 9th […]
Injuries per 1000 starters 14 Thoroughbred 3 Harness Medical conditions per 1000 starters 610 Thoroughbred 57 Harness Deaths per 1000 starters 33 Thoroughbred 1 Harness Source – Qld Racing Integrity Commission Click to access Equine-lifecyce-and-on-track-injury-report-2023-24.pdf
In the same week that the NZ government announced that it was closing greyhound racing down on welfare grounds, the peak body of the sport in NSW have gone and named a Group 1 race after a man who was once disqualified for 12 months for breaching animal welfare regulations by selling dogs for export […]
THE New Zealand government’s decision to ban greyhound racing is based on “nonsense” according to a leading NZ vet. And the government has been captured by woke activists from the SPCA, SAFE and the NZ Vet Association, all of them vocal minorities. That’s the backlash from Donald Arthur who has been a veterinary surgeon for […]
Former dual code licensed trainer Glenn Powell is one man who certainly won’t be going to Menangle on Saturday night to watch the ID24 final. In a week when greyhound racing has been all over the news, it’s fitting that his unavailability is all about dog. The story goes like this. Powell was out in […]
Who is the 50 something former Brisbane jockey seen chasing a much younger woman around the Cairns RSL and Rattle and Hum one recent night? Was his eventual success in the saddle due to the yarn he spun about the romance with his also much younger girlfriend having cooled off, when in fact she was […]
You have to wonder whether the NZ Government has properly thought through the knock on effects of the shut down of greyhound racing on the gallops and trots? I doubt it. The Wanganui and Manukau dogs race on stand alone tracks, but the other four greyhound venues all race inside either trot tracks (Cambridge, Palmerston […]
