Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As a New Zealand citizen myself – the only Geebung born, bred and raised Kiwi that I know – I fully understand the reluctance of the average All Blacks fan wearer to reach into their pocket and pull out a quid. Money is hard to come by in Aeroatoa so spending it hurts But when […]
Aaron Bain Racing’s rapid rise in South Australian thoroughbred racing is set to go to another level with the move to the former Lindsay Park property in Angaston. The historic horse haven in the Barossa Valley, made famous by Colin Hayes as Lindsay Park and then Kildalton Park with the McEvoy’s will be known as […]
There have been rumors floating around for a long time that trainer Ben Smith was a glass pipe jockey. After his guilty plea yesterday to having had prohibited substances on board in his system when swabbed at his Kembla Grange stables on the 4th of April, you have to suspect that the rumors were right. […]
Central north-west NSW trainer Dwayne Brown has been training for a long time, and until recently hasn’t had a whole lot of success, winning only around $125 000 in prizemoney in the 22 years from 2ooo to 2022. After more than 2 decades of trying it suddenly seemed to click for Brown in 2023, and […]
He looks a bit like his trainer Swayzee, doesn’t he? I cast doubt earlier in the week on Jason Grimson’s ability to bring Swayzee back for a successful third prep in the Brisbane Winter Carnival, but on the evidence of his win at Menangle last night it appears that I may have been very, very […]
Trot trainer Ray Cross might at 85 be almost old enough to vote five times, but at an age when many people are either dead or in nursing homes he is still going strong,. Old Ray hasn’t lost his touch either. Last night at Melton he won his second race in 48 hours with the […]
Nigel McGrath is a cheat. By his own reckoning McGrath was giving his horses the banned substance propantheline bromide – a muscle relaxant that works like EPO by increasing the flow of blood – for two years during the Blue Magic scandal that resulted in 2 people dead, supposedly by suicide, although few believe the […]
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 […]
