Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
NZ trot trainer Colin Evans was last year convicted of 30 animal cruelty charges brought by the SPCA, including failure to provide his horses with food or water, confining them in their stalls for excessive periods (up to 23 days), and beating them. He was sentenced to 160 hours of community service, banned from owning […]
You’d have to suspect that former greyhound trainer Laurie Rounds has more than a few problems dealing with authority. Last year Rounds went ballistic when a pre-entry inspection of one of his dogs he wanted to put into the Gap program was cancelled due to concerns abut the greyhound’s vaccination status, and threatened to shoot […]
There is a reason that several welts were dicovered on the rump of the pacer Family Tree after the completion of race 6 at Wagga on Tuesday the 7th of July. That reason is that the horse’s trainer/driver took it back to the stables after it had galloped at the start and taken no competitive […]
The theory sweeping through harness racing circles the nation wide is that the dream team of Jason Grimson (trainer) and Cameron Hart (driver) is no more. The theorists are claiming that the pairing which together won almost every race worth winning during their partnership of several years went their separate ways after the Goulburn Cup […]
On the 30th of April 2014 trainer/driver Rodney Pike was disqualified for 8 years after 5 of his horses recorded among the highest Cobalt readings ever seen in NSW after winning races. The levels that the horses recorded were extraordinart – 360 ug/L, 530 ug/L, 1200ug/L, 1440 ug/L & 2360 ug/L. At the time the […]
Now trainer Nick Walsh, pictured with Alfie back in his days as a young gun rodeo star Nick Walsh is a young Rockhampton gallops trainer and horseman in his mid-twenties, who in the few years since he started training has been leading winners in at an average strike rate 3 in every 10 starters, and […]
This is the leaderboard after the first 2 days of the ‘Bool carnival. Ciaron Maher is, as expected, on top with 4 wins. Ooh ah has won 3 of the 6 jumps races and both features, the Brierley and the Galleywood, with the Grand Annual still to come. Team Hayes don’t do much in the […]
Rockhampton based horseman Ricky Vale is one of the most under-rated trainers in the country. He’s brilliant at his trade too, as he showed by winning the $750 000 slot race The Archer on his home track with Namazu yesterday. A lot of knockers claim that Vale can’t train. That’s because they are imbeciles who […]
Racing Victoria presented only one expert witness in the Darren Weir case, an Equitation Scientist (whatever that is) named Dr Andrew McLean. Dr McLean’s role in the case was to demonstrate that the use of a jigger on a horse in training had the potential to corrupt the outcome of a professional thoroughbred horse race. […]
We are not comfortably satisfied that the outcomes of the relevant races were in fact affected. Therefore, the cases of the Stewards succeed or fail on the “likely to affect” provision. It in turn succeeds or fails on the finding of the capacity of the jigger treatment given to the horses to affect the outcome […]
