Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
It’s been about seven weeks since Bon-Bon wrote his last masterpiece, and gee we’ve missed him. Just like Tim Tzsyu missed Tony Harrison yesterday. Richard Branson didn’t say if you ‘reach higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you ever dreamed’, as out man Jason claims. What he said was that if you […]
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Archie Well I’ve learnt something I did not know from your article highlighting that in NSW they get 2 per cent for all involved in the winning stable. What a great thing. Racing Victoria are whingers. There is an easy solution for them. Do what emperor Pete does. I applaud him. Gold Coast Greg
Racing Victoria remind me of the kid who packs his bat and ball up when you bowl him middle stump in a game of backyard cricket and runs home to mummy and says Mama those boys are mean. Or they would if it were not for one thing. We are not playing in the back […]
Just when you thought racing politics couldn’t get any murkier. It was industry gossip late last year that Racing NSW wouldn’t pay rich strapper bonuses, paid to the handler of the winning horse, if the winning trainer was licenced outside of New South Wales. The common reaction was, to paraphrase, ‘surely not?’, considering that for […]
Connor Crook, the trainer of Fynn Frost NZ, pleaded guilty to a charge under Rule 273(1) for presenting the gelding to race with a bit not approved by Harness Racing Australia. Given the nature of the equipment in addition to the post-race veterinarian examination which failed to display any effect, Mr Crook was fined $500. […]
What you see above is an excerpt from a recent Victorian Racing Tribunal decision in the cases of trainer/drivers Zac Phillips, Tayla Nicholson and Rob O’Connell. The guts of it is that Phillips had possession of a blood spinning machine which he used to extract 4 vials of blood from horses trained by he, Nicholson, […]
