Well, Well, Well – Pete the Plodder Passes His First Big Test at the Trots – Even if He and Not Many of Us Know It
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Gold Coast Greg Tells it Like it Is on PVL, Racing Victoria Whingers, and the Simple Answer to a Not So Difficult Problem
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 are the Kid in Backyard Cricket Who Packed Up Their Bat and Ball, and Ran Home Lying and Crying to Mum
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 […]
The Greatest Load of Horse Manure That You Have Ever Read in Your Life
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 […]
A Burry Good Question
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. […]
Why Did Mr Phillips Spin a Yarn That it Was Smoking Joe’s?
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, […]
Will the Victorian Chief Steward Ever Do His Job?
Peter Chadwick was appointed as Chief Steward of Harness Racing Victoria toward the end of last year. He has been to less than a handful of race meetings since commencing in the role, and hasn’t chaired a single one. For reasons unknown, Chadwick went missing in action for most of February, and wasn’t seen at […]
PVL is a Lion Playing With Mice
This interview by Jason ‘Richo’ Richardson with the old time singer Lucky Starr – the bloke most famous for the song I’ve Been Everywhere Man – appeared yesterday on the Racing Victoria owned racing.com website. Is it any wonder that PVL is running rings around them and has them tied in knots? Peter is good […]
Sal Perna Was a Genius – Sean Carroll is One Too
A parcel of big ugly fat-necked wombat headed big bellied magpie legged narrow hipped splaw-footed sons of Irish Baliffs or english landlords Ned Kelly in the Jerilderie Letter, describing Victorian Police. He was a good judge our Ned. Sal Perna was a bull-necked, wombat headed, heavy set, mean eyed former copper who in 2010 became […]