Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Goulburn trainer Anthony Warren was discovered to have four sealed syringes in his float at Canberra on Cup Day. Warren had only a single runner on the program, the $26 shot Wegotabetterhoffa in the last race. Somewhat oddly the Stewards decided not to take pre-race swabs from the horse after the syringes were detected. That […]
Athletics NSW call all competitive events off once the temperature hits 40 degrees, and for good reason too because humans are most susceptible to heat exhaustion or heat stroke once the mercury rises about that level, which poses a real risk to their health and safety when performing vigorous activities, particularly outdoors in the unshaded […]
Cooktown Lacey Morrison and Grubby Day rode the card between them up at the top end of Australia where the bitumen runs out. Morrison kicked home 4 winners, Day got 3, including the Cooktown Cup. Former three-time Caloundra winner Choir Boy improved on his 4th in the race last year to annihilate its rivals in […]
Turbeau was never going to run in Saturday’s Cooktown Cup with 62kg on its back. He was just in there to make up the numbers and ensure that they got a field of 5 at acceptances time so the race would go ahead for owner Tom Hedley’s other runner Battle Royale. The morning after the […]
Roy Rogers, a handy man on the trigger who kills innocent horses without remorse These are the four young horses that WA trainer Roy Rogers killed by shooting them in the head. None of the deaths were justified. These horses weren’t sick or injured. None of them had a current racing embargo in place. They […]
The disintegration of SA gallops trainer Ryan Balfour is complete. Racing South Australia have ruled that he is no longer a fit and proper person to hold a license. Balfour’s license has been cancelled, effective immediately. The license cancellation period is indefinite. He may reapply for a license in the future, but I wouldn’t like […]
Western Australian gallops trainer Roy Rogers killed 4 horses. At least that’s what the Stewards report said. The word on the ground is that he actually killed 24. These horses weren’t injured or anything, not to the point that they had to be put down. They just weren’t much good, and Rogers didn’t want to […]
No-one can ever accuse the QRIC Stewards of being consistent. This was vividly illustrated on Melbourne Cup day when Five riders at five different Queensland tracks were pinched for failing to fully ride their mounts out to the finish line. Remarkably each received a different penalty for the exact same offence. How can that be? […]
Declan Bates is taking his sacking as the rider of Pride Of Jenni by owner Tony Ottobre graciously, and is acting like the perfect gentleman about it all, but in my view its bullshit and utterly unfair. It was Ottobre who told the press that Jenni would be ridden more conservatively in the Cox Plate, […]
For the second time in four days the officials in QLD have forgotten to remove the ear muffs from a horse before leaving the barriers, resulting in it running around looking like Scotchman with blue sideburns. It happened in race 4 at Bundaberg yesterday, and what happened afterwards was a comedy in itself. Starter B. […]
