Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well you could see that one coming a mile away. As predicted trainer Liandra Gray has been stood down following her criminal conviction for animal cruelty. It’s the right thing too. Shows we as an industry and a sport won’t put up with animals being mistreated. Or assaulted with a whip 40 times. Gray is […]
One thing that appears to have escaped notice is that the success of the NO campaigners in the Rosehill sale vote moves the once reviled Robbie Waterhouse and his wife step closer to the ultimate revenge on the racing establishment that decades ago exiled him from tracks around Australia – by their friends and supporters […]
Archie, Your mention of a blow up at Emerald may have something to do with one party allegedly tipping off that the other had hidden a bleeder. Tom Smith…1 positive? Maybe 3 is about right. And what happened to the adjourned inquiry for Aunty Glenda from 19 April? Attended at 5 other meetings since then […]
By our correspondent The Digger In a rare victory for common sense and racing tradition, the Australian Turf Club (ATC) members have slammed the gate shut on the $5 billion Rosehill Gardens land grab. With 56.1% of the 7864 voting members saying No, the attempt to flog off a historic racecourse for yet another soulless […]
Now just wait for Waller and Waterhouse to bleat when prizemoney starts getting cut……. They’ve never had it better then with V’Landys at the helm. When he’s gone it will be a race to the bottom with Victoria. Belle from Burnie
Poh Yuan Chin is on Racing Queensland’s Noms Exclusion List – Thoroughbred He owes the QLD Principal Racing Authority $30 594.87. That’s interesting because Poh Yuan Chin is the principal shareholder of a company named Imperial Bloodstock and Racing, which is a major shareholder in harness race horses as part of a syndicate also involving […]
“I’ll look after you”. That’s what jockey Rory Hutchings said to the Clerk of the Scales at Randwick yesterday, after the race day official pulled him up for attempting to weigh out without his safety vest so he could make the weight. “I’ll look after you”. There are only two ways that you could take […]
The Ciaron Maher trained colt Navy Pilot was a late scratching from race 5 at Doomben on Saturday due to the track downgrade from Soft 7 to Heavy 8. Local Rule 69 provides that when a horse is scratched due to the condition of the track the Stewards may impose an embargo on the horse […]
Race 1 The winner Iknowyou was backed from $3.10 into $2.20. There was good money for the 3rd horse Trapeze Flyer, backed from $10.00 into $5.00, and the 4th placegetter Smart Colour which firmed from $11.00 into $4.00. Race 2 Winner Potestas landed some nice bets when backed from $15.00 into $6.5. It was the […]
The decision in Tasmanian trainer Liandra Gray’s matter will now be delivered on Wednesday in the Devonport court. It will be a nervous wait for Gray, whose racing career rests on the result.
