Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Victorian Stewards have this afternoon created a metropolitan racing precedent by taking race 5 at Flemington off one of the joint dead heat winners My Yankee Girl after determining that the mare’s rider Blake Shinn had breached the whip rules to such an extent that he had gained a decided unfair advantage over the […]
There were 3 vets on duty for the finals of the Inter Dominion on Saturday night. One was Dr Richard Cust. His son Andrew is a vet at the Ballarat Equine Clinic. Dr Andrew Cust is also Emma Stewart’s vet. Isn’t that great? No conflict of interest there, is there? Gimme a break. It gets […]
When Tosel Basil died in December 2018 racing.com – presumably relying on advice from either Ozzie Kheir or Darren Weir – reported that the horse had been spelled after a disappointing rub in the Mooney Valley Cup. That race was run on the 26th of October 2018. Yet on 30 October – four days later […]
The news that Darren Weir has today pleaded guilty to criminal charges of animal cruelty in relation to the use of a jigger on three horses spells the end of his career in racing forever, and co-offenders Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond’s too. Although Weir’s four-year disqualification from training relating to the same offence expires […]
Racing Victoria has floated wholesale changes to next year’s Spring Carnival, including moving established Group 1 races. RV has privately met with all three Melbourne clubs and consulted Country Racing Victoria, with an appetite to capture the later part of the year when there is little competition from other sports and the weather is typically […]
The question about Spirit of St Louis’ run in the ID 22 Final is not just why it went so bad. It is why after its atrocious performance in Round 3 that the Stewards even let it run at all. Spirit went like a busted arse in that final heat. He sat 1-1 and had […]
The picture published on Racenet of Tommy Berry and Kayla Nisbet is a tad misleading. Berry and Nisbet aren’t partners. They are in-laws. Kayla Nisbet’s sister Sharnee is Berry’s partner. The cases are unrelated, as the NSW Stewards say. Sort of anyway. They picked it up off Berry’s phone. There is a story goes with […]
This minor infringement fine issued to Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack for cheating in the 3rd and final round of the ID22 Trotting heats is both outrageous, and a clear example of how the stewarding in Victoria is on the nose. Cracker’s horse Always Ready was drawn in gate 2, directly behind the $151 shot Teetreetommy, which […]
So do you want the good news, or the bad news? Let’s go good first. Emma Stewart (aka Clayton Tonkin) can only win 6 of the 10 races at Melton on Saturday night, because she is not contesting the other four. The bad news is that she can win all of the other six. She […]
So far there have been 6 heats of ID22 run. meaning that there have been 18 placings in these heats. Horses trained by Tonkin and Stewart have filled 9 of these 18 spots. Belinda McCarthy trained pacers have filled a further 4. That’s just two stables that have produced 13 of the 18 placed horses […]
