Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember we told you about the great rock n’ roll Tom Hedley weight rort with Valenki a few days ago? The one where a horse of Hedley’s named Valenki was entered in race 4 at Cairns on Thurday to compress the weights and then scratched an hour after acceptances? How To Compress the Weights in […]
She’s Speedy was $3.30 in the betting when scratched at the barrier from the last race in Cairns yesterday. Every fool in racing knows that the horse’s withdrawal should have triggered deductions from the face value of the tickets for bets on runners in the race. The major bookies did. TAB and Ladbrokes took 23c […]
I can understand a trainee starter mucking things up early in their career. We all do that. But how can a judge get a photo wrong in the digital age? It’s a good trick isn’t it? Only in Queensland.
Three cheers to the Yeppoon Turf Club for supporting industry participants with subsidies to help them get through the current fuel crisis. We are Australians. Mates help out mates. But where is Racing QLD when you need them? PVL has led the charge on racing authorities looking after their own, and Racing Victoria has followed. […]
Samantha Murphy in interview with Racing NSW, talkin about rehoming slow horses to Taran Kelly, and hungry lions There does not appear to be any dispute between the parties that the Appellant (Samantha Murphy) in fact facilitated the retirement of 27 horses to the property after the conversation in question. That’s what the NSW Racing […]
Do you remember the series of stories we wrote about a bloke named Adrian Talbot, the brother of the Wagga Greyhound Racing Club chairman Ben Talbot, and how he was running an illegal operation that slaughtered unwanted racehorses to convert them into dog meat? https://peterprofit.com/?s=adrian+talbot A Horse of Course – The Great GWIC Brumby Meat […]
A hitherto healthy 4yo mare named Badlifedecision races at Mackay on the 2nd of April and goes like a busted arse. She is loaded onto a float to be transported home, slips, staggers and flips, becoming prone on the ground. The mare regains its footing, then staggers and falls again falling, becoming prone. A short […]
Roy Chillemi trains for leading FNQ owner and all round dodger Tom Hedley, who is a very sharp man with a dollar. Chillemi entered the Hedley owned Valenki for the Open Handicap at Cairns on Thursday. Given that it was the highest rated horse in the field by far, Valenki – who had raced 3 […]
The race meeting at Innisfail in North QLD this weekend is in grave danger of being scrubbed. At the close of nominations the five races on the card had the following numbers: 3, 3, 5, 4, 3. In QLD you need five acceptors for a race to go ahead. As it presently stands that means 4 […]
