Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We have had a couple of calls since we put up the story about Jaden Lloyd being allowed to claim 2 kilos off Hatchet’s weight when he replaced the over weight Ryan Maloney at the last minute in the $127 500 QTIS 3YO Handicap at Caloundra on Saturday, and most of them are saying that […]
The rule that is printed at the top of this page relates to the replacement of riders at race meetings, in situations where for whatever reason one jockey cannot meet their declared commitment to take the mount, and another jockey must ride it instead. The words in the rule are simple and clear – another […]
A horse named Our Mantra failed to finish in the Kangaroo Island Cup on Saturday. The five Stewards on a sojourn to the island for a weekend away must have all been watching Justin Huxtable making a goose of himself by standing up in the irons to give the salute and then promptly falling off, […]
We cast no judgement upon either Mr TA Wier or his brother Michael. All we say is racing integrity depends upon knowing who exactly it is who are buying our yearlings. Thaddeus? Please. Michael and Thaddeus Wier Jr. were spared prison terms Friday but each was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and perform 1,000 […]
Queensland racing is just out of control. Trainers know that there is no money for swabs outside the South East corner, and that only the winners are getting tested. So they hit their horses with gear that only shows up pre-race in blood, and they do so with extreme confidence that they won’t get caught. […]
These claims that you see above were made by the CEO of Harness Racing Australia (HRA) Andrew Kelly, and are published in the Annual Report of the racing sport that was released over the weekend. I’m going to call a spade a spade, tell it like it is and call it as it falls, […]
We decided this morning to take a 2 weeks snapshot of the same fortnight’s racing in Tasmania over the three consecutive years from 2017-2019. What we were looking at was the runners trained by Ben Yole during that fortnight period each year, so that we could attempt to track where they ended up. The fortnight […]
Chris Waller was the hero who came to Queensland. He came, he saw, he plundered. Now he is off to Scone. True story. Waller is about to shut his Gold Coast stable down, and relocate it to Scone. Queensland racing is the bomb. The bomb that blew itself up. Thanks Winxy. Make sure you give […]
BRISBANE Winners: 9 Other: 6 Total Swabs: 15 SYDNEY Winners: 10 Other: 46 Total Swabs: 56 MELBOURNE Winners: 9 Other: 39 Total Swabs: 48 The numbers tell the story don’t they? 56 horses were swabbed at Randwick yesterday. 48 were swabbed at Caulfield. And in Brisbane they swabbed just 15. Robert Heathcote was right. The […]
There were nine races today at Doomben, and six pre-race samples taken. 9 + 6 = 15 I like numbers. They tell you things, and allow you to work other things out by following their patterns. What a cursory analysis of the swab numbers reported in Queensland thoroughbred racing official Stewards Reports tells me is […]
