Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole from Tasmania is officially Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer. He is also one of the nation’s most prolific individual horse killers, which is why we call him Chainsaw – that and the fact that he and his mate the greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock chop the trotters they kill into pieces and feed […]
This is a story about the art of the spruik, and it’s master. I would have called Gai Waterhouse it’s mistress, only I am a modern new age feminist turned gender equality junkie, and Gai lays down for no-one except through marriage, love and duty, or because she wants to, and then only with Robbie. […]
On the 23rd of February 2022 the license of Dalby based trainer David Reynolds was suspended indefinitely until the hearing of serious criminal charges against him, and his seeming inevitable sentence that appears likely may involve a term of imprisonment. Reynolds was given seven days to amend the bona fides and to arrange a transfer […]
I gave Nathan Jack a huge wrap for his drive on Mach Dan, and I will give him another one for his steer on his Dad’s horse Just Hope in the NSW Oaks last night too. This bloke is a freak. He gets tipped out for years on what now appear to be bodgie charges, […]
We recently wrote a series of stories in which we were highly critical of the Racing Queensland funded ‘broadcaster’ On The Bit Racing and its related entity the Queensland Country Racing Awards for nominating a licensee that both organisations were aware was facing serious criminal charges for their prestigious Queensland Country Trainer of the Year […]
If standards of behaviour are breached, the entire profession comes into disrepute, its (racing’s) public standing is in jeopardy, and its standing as a respected and honourable profession is diminished – The Hon J W Gendall QC, NZ Racing Integrity Board Adjudicator New Zealand racing has a rule that un-vaxxed people can’t ride trackwork, just […]
There have been eleven applications for an Internal Review (appeals) determined by the QRIC’s ‘independent’ reviewer this year. 10 out of the 11 appeals against penalty have been rejected. That damn Sharlee Hoffman (formerly D’Avila, much to her chagrin) had to go and spoil the Stewards perfect score. Good. She was innocent anyway. I’m not […]
See the horse above named Ghent? The one that has been backed from $7.00 into $3.50 without any falcons passing on a tip. It is trained by Gaita Pullicino. Gaita and/or her son have been banned from harness racing in just about every State in Australia, bar South Australia, which issued her a license to […]
David Moran and Laura Crossland were defacto partners in 2019. Damian Wilson was cutting his lunch. Crossland said sayonara to Moran, and moved in with Wilson. Moran was not happy at all. On the 14th of November he got juiced up and moonshine and rocked around to Crossland’s stables in the Shepparton Training Centre blind. […]
The only thing we can say is that as long as the horse is nowhere near Chainsaw or his greyhound trainer mate Anthony ‘B&S (Boner and Slicer) Bullock, at least Longfellow might have some future. Then again, Emma Stewarts runners have a nasty habit of breaking down in work, so maybe it’s not so certain […]
