Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Where there’s life there’s hope, my mate Matt always says. Perhaps he is right, for Panel Chair his honor O’Brien comes out and criticizes the way that the QRIC has particularized the charge. He basically says that a collection of facts thrown together doesn’t by prove a person’s guilt. You have to show how Smith’s […]
Murdoch rests his case. It shouldn’t have been too heavy, ‘cos it didn’t contain much. The QRIC’s counsel – I didn’t catch his name – begins his submissions in reply. This is going to be interesting. He is not intimidated by Murdoch like so many others are, and is standing up to him like Holyfield […]
For once in his life the Magic Man looks to be struggling. You can’t criticise him for it. It’s bloody hard to spin a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. Murdoch KC is trying though. Now he’s arguing that the assault on the horse wasn’t improper, because the Rockhampton Jockey Club trackwork supervisor didn’t […]
I am quickly starting to think that Murdoch KC knows that he is on a loser here, and is clutching at straws. First he attempts to define improper by reference to case involving Dean Watts and his company Dynamic Syndications. I know that case. It involved Watt – who runs Dynamic Syndications – being found […]
We are live here at the Racing Appeals Panel where trainer Tom Smith’s appeal against his one month suspension for beating the crap out of an innocent horse is being heard. Smith has been smart and engaged the best in the business to represent him, the best of course being Jim Murdoch KC, aka the […]
Humid started the short-priced $1.50 favorite in the 3rd race at the Gold Coast on Saturday. It went like a busted banana, beaten 7.5 lengths in running second last. The vet found nothing wrong with the horse. Rider Jai Williams disagreed. He told the Stewards that Humid had been kicked by another galloper when they […]
Racing in the Western Cape of South Africa has come to a standstill after a major brouhaha erupted at the Durbanville meeting on Wednesday. The situation is bizarre. A Stewards Inquiry was held on Tuesday into jockey Grant van Niekerk’s ride on a horse named ALL OUT FOR SIX in Race 8 at Kenilworth on […]
Keep your eye on the horse in last place on the fence in this race at Hong Kong, the one in the yellow and red silks. If you threw your ticket away at the top of the straight you’d better go and get it out of the bin. California Star is the horse’s name. It […]
Everyone’s favorite race caller gets it wrong again. The winner was the one flying home, not the leader as called. The early crow. No no no!
I know its a bit late to criticize a jockey’s ride last weekend, but I have been waiting for someone to say something about Josh Parr’s ride on Shezanalister in the last at Rosehill on Saturday and no-one has, so we will. Parr slaughtered Shezanalister. The Bjorn Baker trainer horse should have won by panels. […]
