Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
After their stable’s rout of the big races in Australia and New Zealand on the weekend, we thought we’d take a quick look at the comparative season statistics for both the Mark Purdon and Emma Stewart stables. The similarities are frightening. Emma Stewart’s metro figures are straight underneath Purdon’s, and her state-wide stats are in […]
I like to swear, more for emphasis and to challenge boundaries than anything else, and to fit my literary character as the bloke sitting on the bar stool at the Geebung RSL shooting the shit with my mates about racing. But I write for a subscription website and all the readers are over 18. Ben […]
Another great Irishman with a bit of Ernie in his name So what do you make of the Birdsville jigger inquiry? My view is this. Ric McMahon is lying like fuck, and then lying some more when he claims not to know what a jigger is, or how to use it. That’s bollocks. McMahon moved […]
Q. At what point are they turned on? A. BWCs allow authorised officers to collect audio and video recordings while working out in the field. Fieldwork includes situations such a routine stable/kennel inspections, animal welfare investigations, and race day Steward’s inquiries Comment: Do you notice that at no stage do QRIC ever answer it’s own […]
Now I am not a registered lawyer, so I can’t give you legal advice, and won’t. But I can give you a couple of important tips. In the course of doing something recently, I had cause to look very closely at the Rules of Greyhound Racing, and their interaction with the law prescribed in the […]
A portrait of a drug taking, woman bashing, fraudster and coward as a young man Matthew ‘Matt’ Anderson is a drug dealing violent offender who once bashed and choked a woman he claimed to love, leaving her covered in bruises and cowering in fear of her life. In June 2020 he was convicted of assault […]
The usual suspects who hate the clan claim that Mark Currie’s strike rate has exploded up since his son boom-boom Benny – aka the Tornado – was allowed by the Stewards to return to the fold as a stable hand, with the inference being that somehow they are cheating, with Ben pulling the rorts. It […]
Glenda Markwell went to the Pearly Gates track on Friday after reaching the finishing post in her incredibly brave and stoic battle against the terrible disease that kept trying to kill her. Nautical Lass in race 1 at Randwick just run was the last ever horse to carry Glenda’s name as trainer in the race […]
On the 29 September licensed Kiwi trainer Murray Neal turned up to the Otaki-Maori race meeting in an official capacity assisting fellow trainer David Jensen, who won the 6th race on the program with a horse named Here Comes Trouble. No-one could have predicted how prescient the horse’s name would be. Despite being at the […]
I don’t wish to speak ill of the dead. But I don’t believe in deifying people who have passed either. In among all the praise for the now deceased trainer from people in the halls of power, just remember one thing. Mick Mair was charged with the sexual assault of a teenage stable employee in […]
