Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
By now you have read the stories I wrote about the orgy of whipping at Melton on Vicbred Super Series night, and are familiar with the tale of how leading senior driver David Moran belted the living crap out of two pacers in Group 1 races, won one and finished second, and only copped 2 […]
The showcase night of the Victorian harness racing year ended up as nothing but a demonstration of the utter contempt that the leader of our industry hold for the welfare of our racing animals. It was an orgy of animal cruelty from whoa to go, and David Moran was one of the stars of the […]
This just gets worse. Animal welfare in Victoria is a code word for beat them. The replay that you see below is of the Group 1 Vicbred Super Series 2YO Colts and Geldings Trotters Final, worth $50 000 to the winner. Kerryn Manning is the driver of Plymouth Chubb, the horse one off the fence […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
