Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
One thing that has been largely missed amid all the hoopla and hype about the NZ Government’s announcement that greyhound racing will be shut down is a new law passed under urgency in parliament yesterday. The Racing Industry (Unlawful Destruction of Specified Greyhounds) Amendment Bill – now passed into law – makes it a criminal […]
Just one day prior to NZ Racing Minister Winston Peters announcing that greyhound racing would be shut down, the Racing Integrity Board (RIB) handed down its ruling on rule breach matters involving the country’s leading trainer Lisa Cole. The decision highlights exactly why the new law criminalizing the killing of unwanted greyhounds is a grand […]
According to its recently released 2023/24 annual report the SPCA (New Zealand’s equivalent of the RSPCA) took 30 242 animals into their shelters last year. 16 071 were reunited with their owners or found new homes. The SPCA doesn’t say what happened to the other 14 171. That’s because they killed them. Yes that’s right, […]
One of the things we saw was when methamphetamine was found to be present in the dogs. It was called an accident by the industry when they came to select committee. I’ve reiterated that to industry again: that they actually should have said at the time, “No, that occurred and it wasn’t good enough and […]
