Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Victorian Racing Tribunal has handed gallops trainer John Leek Jr – who at age 72 seems a bit old for the last part of the name – a 3-year disqualification for attempting to drench one of his jumpers by the side of the road on the way to the races. There is no doubt […]
Caulfield Cup winning trainer Jim Mason moved up from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast a couple of years back to become the private trainer for Noosa crane and lift hire magnate Mike Sherrin, who runs his thoroughbred business under the name of Sheralee Racing. Sherrin previously had his horses with Desleigh Forster, but that relationship […]
There is a somewhat interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this week. It relates to the death of a racehorse named River Danzka in early 2025, and the reasons behind it. River Danzka was a slow 5-year-old gelding trained by former Mount Isa race club President Peter Inwood, and had been beaten […]
Paul Fitzpatrick won seven straight NSW trot training premierships in the 2000’s, and has won multiple Group 1 races. He is no mug when it comes to the training caper. But today Jason Grimson made him look like one. Fitzpatrick had trained the pacer Lexus Lou throughout its 27 start career and won 3 races […]
The great untold story of last year’s QLD Provincial Trainer’s Premiership is how close Mark ‘Boof’ Currie came to winning it, and how far he would have won by had he not broken down four months out from the end of the season. You can see the final results in the picture at the top. […]
Riverina trainer Norm Diebert Snr must have achieved some sort of record as the oldest trainer ever to have a horse throw a positive to cobalt, after the substance above the threshold of 100 micrograms per litre in urine was detected in the urine sample taken from his pacer CHANCETOWIN following its win in race […]
The Emma Stewart of Sydney harness racing Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson had a huge night out at Menangle yesterday winning all four races his stable contested, and driving three of them too. Unusually most of Grimson’s winners were at big odds. $13.00, $11.00, $6.50 and $1.33 they started. Their were some very weird runs by some […]
As we reported , NSW’s leading trainer Jason Grimson was directed to attend a Steward’s Inquiry after driving in race 6 at Albion Park last week, and failed to do so. To describe it metaphorically by using a colloquialism, Grimson spat in the QRIC stipes face. They just wiped the golly away, and allowed him […]
JD Hayes and Dakotah Keane, pictured above at last night’s Victorian Racing Awards I am a bit confused. I’m quite sure that I saw jockey Dakotah Keane out one night arm in arm with one of the Hayes boys when I was down on one my regular racing trips to Melbourne, not sure which, or […]
In a case that has taken an inordinate amount of time to hear, Racing NSW Stewards on Friday disqualified Gosford trainer Greg McFarlane for 2 years and 6 months after his horse Bremel threw a positive swab to EPO in an out of competition test conducted in February 2025. After many delays the trainer finally […]
