Look at This Grub – Everyone Makes Mistakes Scott Sheargold Says – They Sure Do You Pervert

NORTH Queensland jockey Scott Sheargold has been fined by stewards after pleading guilty to sending an inappropriate text message to a fellow racing participant. Former jockey Danny Adam, the father of the racing participant, Charlotte Adam, who received the inappropriate text message, said he is appalled by Sheargold’s actions. Charlotte, who is a regular strapper […]

Evil Triumphs When Good Men Do Nothing – And If Brains Were Dollar Some Jockeys Would Be Flat Broke

Some people claim that jockeys are stupid, but I have never believed them. When you meet and get to know good people like Jimmy Orman, Laura Cheshire, Dale Missen, Ian Toward, Russell Maddocks, Whopper Stephens, Lyle Plumb Snr (my dead heat with Doc Chapman for favourite seniors gold card holder in racing, for very different […]

How a Corrupt, Wire-Wearing, Rollover Dog Maggot Who Robbed Racing Blind Named Wayne Innes Sent This Innocent Racing Writer to Jail – And How the Queensland Police and the CCC Arranged It

A few years back I started writing about a Queensland racing identity named Wayne Innes. Innes was a popular figure at the track, a racehorse owner, sponsor, corporate Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) member, a regular in the exclusive Chairman’s room, and the best friend of his personal racehorse trainer Kelly Schweida. But there was something […]

The Persecution of Ben Currie is Writ Large by the John O’Shea Decision – All Men Are Equal Above and Below the Turf – Except the Toowoomba Tornado

Ben Currie and John O’Shea were convicted of the identical offence of presenting a horse to race when it had traces of the prohibited substance Methamphetamine in its system. O’Shea’s horse also had amphetamine in its system. Currie’s did not. O’Shea had two previous convictions for dishonesty to Stewards on his record at the time […]

Wherever the Muscle Man Michael Bryant Goes, Well Backed Winners Follow – That’s No Shock Is It?

Michael Bryant is best known as the equine chiropractor – known in the fame a muscle man – who worked with Peter Moody Mark 1 and tended to Black Caviar throughout most of her career. More recently he has been working with Sunshine Coast trainers like Dick Vandke and continuing the golden run of success […]

When is Australia Going to Throw Phoenix Thoroughbreds Into the Flames? – And Start Asking the Hard Questions About Aquis Too?

The Racing Post reported Thursday that Phoenix Thoroughbreds has been suspended from racing in Britain. The British Horseracing Authority told the Post the group’s racing accounts were frozen and the decision was made on the basis of finances rather than suitability. Despite a declaration last month that it would no longer race in Great Britain, Phoenix […]

The Ridiculous Racing Rant Persecution – And a Quick Little Lesson About Pandora’s Boxes, Cans of Worms, and Unintended Consequences

I didn’t know that the NSW Chief Steward was a District Court judge, and I wasn’t aware that he was an expert on defamation law either. Which is no surprise, because he is not. Defamation is one of the most discrete areas of specialisation in the law, and no more than 2-3 percent of solicitors […]

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