A Quick Question
How does a jockey with a very poor whip rule breach record get a reprimand for hitting his horse 15 times, and a kid with a good record get fined $500 for striking hers seven. It just doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. Not much about the ‘uniform’ whip rules does.
Mick Dittman Redux at Morphettville – 38 Years Later
South Australia aren’t real keen on enforcing the whip rules. In the absence of force, jockey Jacob Opperman isn’t overly interested in obeying them either. Take a look at this replay of the last at Morphetville yesterday. You know what it reminds me of? Mick Dittman on Gurner’s Lane in the Cup. Riders are not […]
A Koala Named Tom – Jockey Berry Breaches the Whip Rule Twenty Times in a Month – And Never Even Gets Charged
Koalas are protected species in NSW. So is jockey Tommy Berry. Berry breaches the whip rules at almost every meeting that he rides. In fact over the past month he has broken the rules on average 1.6 times at every race meeting he has ridden. He gets away with it with impunity, which means scot […]
Sieg Heil! – PETA’s Campaign Against the Whip is a Lie – PETA is Lie – What This is Really All About is Raising Money to Fund the Final Solution of Turning the Whole World Vegan – Sound Mad? – That’s Because it Is
PETA (above) claiming that Hitler didn’t have the same ideas as them by saying that even if he did, noble causes shouldn’t be abandoned just because they were supported by Nazis who fed people into gas chambers and threw their bodies into mass holes Hunting and horse races are the last vestiges of a dead […]
Why Every Punter Should Stroll up to the Animal Activist Screaming at You Outside the Track Gate and Shake Their Hand
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – are the enemy of the racing industry. They hate us, and want to shut us down. We’re cruel, wicked torturers they reckon, animal exploiters and speciests of the worst kind. What’s a speciest you ask? A person who believes that humans run the world, not […]
Where Did All the Money Disappear to in the Riverina Track Build? – Wagga You Reckon Mr MP Maguire? – ICACing Myself Laughing – FIRST PUBLISHED 19 OCTOBER 2020
Want to know one of the prime reasons that the Riverina harness track cost rose from $3.5 million to $13 million, and the surface is still so unreliable that every time it sprinkles they have to call the meeting off? See that bloke with the baldish head in the blue coat and brown pants? That’s […]
US Whip Free Group Race Carnival Exposes the Great Stick For Safety Reasons Lie
The New Jersey Racing Commission runs the Monmouth gallops track (and the Freehold and Meadowlands paceways). In September last year the Commission became the first racing authority in the USA to introduce a rule that bans the use of the whip in races by jockeys, other than for strictly defined safety reasons. Due to […]