The Tommy Berry Inquiry – The Race – (or One of Them Anyway)
The word on the street is that one of the main focuses of the Stewards attention in the Tommy Berry inquiry race number 10 at Royal Randwick on Saturday 23 October 2021. Berry won it on Quantico, which was backed from $10.00 into $7.00. The Butcher is said to have had $10 000 on Berry’s […]
EXCLUSIVE – God Bless the Butcher – A Mug With an Out of Control Ego and Lips That Sink Ships
This Butcher’s probably the worst punter I have ever seen. Who the hell would back the Raiders to win $23 000 when they are playing away against a Panthers side that has Martin, May, Yeo. Kikau, Fisher-Harris, Leota, Cleary, Luai, Burton, To’o, Charlie Staines and Crichton in it? You’re basically playing the NSW Origin team. […]
EXCLUSIVE – Charlie, Charlie, Charlie – He, Him, They
This is the race that Tommy Berry was telling the Butcher about. Berry’s message is very, very instructive. Allow me to break it down for you. You know the worst thing? He told me it (Wairere Falls) would win before I got on him. Who did? It wasn’t the trainer Chris Waller. He was down in […]
The Jigger Man Wins a $200 000 Showcase Race – Part 1 – Yeah Good
Todd Austin trained Echo Point until Ric McMahon got with the jigger that they he wanted him to use in trackwork on ‘one of ‘ his Birdsville Cup runners. I use the inverted commas because not only one Cup runner was jiggered, both were. The photographer just didn’t catch the other one in her photos. […]
The Jigger Man Wins a $200 000 Showcase Race – Part 2 – Now the Sparks are Flying
Stewards have slapped the husband and wife duo of Todd and Toni Austin, along with jockey Ric McMahon with a string of charges relating to the alleged Birdsville Cup jigger scandal from August this year. Stewards allege the trio were involved in the scandal ahead of the famous bush meeting on August 30, when a […]
Todays Gallops Tips
SYDNEY Race 8 no 6 – Shaquero He is one of the most frustrating horses in the world this bloke. Has a world of ability on his day, but catching him can be very difficult. Having said that, this race is weak and he looks well in at the weights. With Berry on board today […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band Are Boogieing With the Wrong Bookie in the Jigger Case – But His Client Who is Instructing Him Already Knows That, Don’t You Texas?
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
The Hottest Thing in Wangaratta Since Ned Kelly Stayed the Night – Part 1
We are at Wangaratta yesterday, and we are looking at race 6. It’s an apprentice’s race, the last sort of thing you’d suspect of being run hot. Which, when you think about it, is the ideal one. Low paid apprentices keen for a flash car and a jet ski like the grade above them. Wildly […]
Six Questions About a Queensland Stewards Inquiry
Question One Where exactly did Chris Taylor’s mount Going To The Sun stumble at the 700m mark? Question 2 Is it acceptable for a jockey to ease their mount out of the race when are they in contention as a chance, in circumstances whereby an official vet could find nothing wrong with the horse? Question […]