Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The story so far. An anonymous whistleblower sent The Black Horse Newsletter a tranche of 150 Department of Agriculture documents connected to two of Ireland’s biggest doping scandals. Issue 10 of the Newsletter contained revelations in the John Hughes case not made public before, including the names of some of the trainers and their associates […]
On 16 November 2023, Stewards enquired into an incident that took place prior to the Birdsville Cup, being the sixth race at Birdsville on the 2 September 2023, whereby apprentice Landan Sykes was engaged to ride WAITAKERE. Apprentice Landan Sykes pleaded guilty, in that he did attempt to deceive and manipulate his riding weight, when […]
Aidan O’Brien appears to believe the average mental age of racing fans is about five. Just who does he think he’s kidding, apart from his mouthpiece at the Racing Post, Deputy Ireland Editor David Jennings, who rates about three. Following Auguste Rodin’s impressive win in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, they fed the racing […]
Why on earth was the 2nd best track in Australia at Caulfield displaying such an on pace, lanes 1-4 fr0m the rail bias today during a beautiful period of fine weather? It was nuts. So are the modern methods of track managers. As a punter all you want to do other than back winners is […]
What the hell sort of Stewarding is this? Warwick Satherley, the jockey of the horse in red that races around to the lead, clearly came cutting across to the fence when their wasn’t room to do so. By doing this he chopped the rider of the horse in front in half and caused him to […]
There are just 5 races programmed for Toowoomba on Saturday night, with the meeting running for just under 3 hours. Surely there is ample time to run another race if one is required, and one certainly is, for the Maiden has 19 acceptances in a maximum capacity field size of only 11, leaving 8 want […]
Take a look at the interference in the straight to Drialle, the heavily backed $1.70 favourite in the cream and green that is 3 back the fence as they round the turn. Drialle’s rider Martin Harley had every right to shoot the gap down the stretch between the leader on the rail and the horse […]
After a series of cancelled meetings due to problems with the drainage from the course proper, the Cairns Jockey Club has finally advertised for a new full-time track manager. It’s about time. The bloke that they need is Sean Bridges, the former Eagle Farm track manager who got crucified over the failure of the course […]
These are the field sizes for the TAB meeting at the Gold Coast on Saturday. What a joke. Race 1: Four Race 2: Four Rave 3: Seven Race 4: Five Race 5: Five Race 6: Seven Race 7: Four 36 starters in 7 races, just over 5 per race. No 3rd place dividend paid in […]
This has to be addressed – the process around photo finishes is clearly not good enough. Jye McNeil reviewed the photo & we fully agree with him , it’s hard to argue that it actually wasn’t a dead heat. In this day & age our industry should be better than just a lap top computer […]
