Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The highly sought after Decron Horse Care Noel Smith Invitation Drivers Championship rounds were conducted at Horsham in Victoria today. It was an 8 race card. Guess how many runners on the program HRV Stewards pre-race sampled? Three. Their prices? $12.00 $31.00 $151.00 I guess it’s not only the NSW testing regime that’s a farce. […]
Whoever the brain surgeon at HRV is that decided that running 1200m races around Melton on a Saturday night was a good idea needs a lobotomy. This is the just another example of the present prevailing ideology among idiots that goes along lines like this. “Gee Cheech, the dogs have doubled their turnover, while we […]
On the 13th of October 2021 the Victorian Stewards conducted a random inspection of trot trainer Justin Torney;s premises. During their visit the Stewards caught Torney red handed in possession of 4 bottles of the banned growth hormone EquiGen. EquiGen contains a growth hormone called Somatotropin. Growth hormones are peptides that are just like EPO […]
Ben Yole had 10 runners at Cranbourne yesterday, but only contested just 3 races. Tasmanian race fixing and team driving has been transplanted to Victoria. Yole’s man Robert ‘Honest Bob’ Walters is the ringmaster. Watch and you will see. RACE ONE Yole has 2 runners. They are Good Feelings drawn the 2, and Major Assassin […]
Wayne Walters is widely credited as the trainer of Torbek, the horse that they famously pulled off a massive plunge on at Seymour in April 1979. That’s about as true as the story that the then council clerk and now dodgy Cairns motel owner Brian Jorgenson was the mastermind behind the plunge. It was all […]
RV’s goal is to maximise safety for riders and horses and to minimise the occurrence of racing incidents, while acknowledging the inherent risks of the sport. The falls at three consecutive Saturday metropolitan meetings have been widely reported. Each incident is being reviewed thoroughly via a Stewards inquiry. The first inquiry saw two riders suspended […]
Racing Victoria have today issues a 2 page statement in response to widespread questions about the current racing program, and whether it causing rider fatigue and contributing to falls. You can read RV’s statement as published in the article above. The committee of the Geebung Polo Club met today to consider the statement. This is […]
Our story yesterday about the business interests of Ben Yole’s major owner Steve Wyles sparked the attention of a reader, who wrote in to tell us about the joint just up the road from Wyle’s old company Freight Partners in Carrum Downs that boils down dead horses and recycles them into oil. I didn’t quite […]
I just watched race 4 at Menangle. They’ve just crossed the line. There is something seriously wrong with Nephew Of Sonoko. You could see it clearly by the way he trotted. This horse should be stood down pending a vet’s certificate of clearance. The Stewards aren’t doing their job properly if he isn’t.
Ryan Backhouse is only 18, I get that. But trot racing is a big kids game, and people invest hundreds of thousands of dollars on each race. They expect better than what young Backhouse gave them in the last at Melton on Saturday night, and if the lad can’t deliver it while he’s a teenager […]
