Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Back to the TAB Eureka and Dixon said he felt a mix of pride and deflation with second spot. “It looked like our race to win, but you can’t expect any more from him,” he said. “You wonder if I’d done anything differently, would it have changed the result, but I’m not to know that some horses […]
My God. Trainer Tim Cook looks around to make sure that no-one is watching. And then he absolutely smashes his horse across the face with a backhander. What a great bloke. The type we all want in racing. A poster boy for the sport. Not. There is always someone watching people like you Mr Cook. […]
This is an extract from a feature story that appeared on the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s website. The comments in italic are ours. ————————————– Local Trainer Tim Cook once stated “My mother always said she went into labour with me going to the Dingo races”. Dingo? How apt is that. This being the case, one can […]
A 20-year-old former employee of Australia’s leading harness racing trainer Ben Yole, who crashed a car towing an unregistered horse float — injuring passengers and killing four horses — has been charged by Tasmania Police. The white Ford Ranger was towing the loaded horse float when it crashed on the Batman Highway at Rowella, north […]
Scott Brunton has been Tasmanian racing’s problem child for a long time now. He has been arrested on drug and firearm charges. Convicted of three counts of meth possession on a plea deal. Doped a Tassie Derby winner that got disqualified after returning a positive. Ripped his workers off. Rorted the Tax Office. You name […]
There have been some developments in the Ben Yole case. The mail is that the man we call Chainsaw was summoned to attend a meeting with Ray Murrihy this morning to answer questions about his relationship with his mate the now stood down grub of a dog trainer Anthony Bullock. In particular we are told […]
Liam Birchley was one of Queensland’s top trainers before the executioners from Victoria cut his career down without proper cause, and tried to grind it into dust. As you may recall, Birchley was the innocent victim of the Aquanita purge, a man accused of racing crimes that he didn’t commit and never did. He was […]
It was all happening at Tambo on the weekend – a lavish luncheon provided by the local ICPA branch for Ladies Day at the races, and the Country Queensland Premiership winners being finalised both on the track there and further north at Corfield. Both country jockey and trainer premierships went down to the wire, with […]
Step up to me, you city gentsAnd I’ll clean your shoes for fifteen centsI’ll fix your tie, you’ll look a smashIf you don’t mind, I’ll take the cash St Louis – Written by George Young of ACDC, sung by the Easybeats Mark Currie carved them up in the Provincial trainers premiership with 88 winners for […]
They say that the simmering feud between Jason Grimson and the Butts blew up big time in the Creek Bar on Saturday night, with fisticuffs being exchanged between the warring parties. Eyewitnesses to the fracas say that Grimson punched Kate Butt’s new boyfriend big time – assaulted him so to speak – while Jack Callaghan […]
