Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing Victoria presented only one expert witness in the Darren Weir case, an Equitation Scientist (whatever that is) named Dr Andrew McLean. Dr McLean’s role in the case was to demonstrate that the use of a jigger on a horse in training had the potential to corrupt the outcome of a professional thoroughbred horse race. […]
We are not comfortably satisfied that the outcomes of the relevant races were in fact affected. Therefore, the cases of the Stewards succeed or fail on the “likely to affect” provision. It in turn succeeds or fails on the finding of the capacity of the jigger treatment given to the horses to affect the outcome […]
In a decision that has left many shaking their heads in disbelief, Darren Weir has escaped the serious charge of attempting to corrupt the outcome of the 2018 Melbourne Cup, with the judge in charge of the VRT – a former shareholder in horses trained by Weir – describing his use of a jigger on […]
Ellen Tormey did a George Moore by blowing the whistle and never having to go around horse until the straight in race 5 at Mildura last night. Don’t you wish you could be this lucky with every horse you backed that firmed from $12.00 into $4.00? True Mildura style.
The GRV Stewards reported that there were no incidents in race 5 at Bendigo yesterday. They must have been watching a different race to me. Keep your eyes on the 3 dog in the white rug and see what happens to it as they turn into the straight for home. See it get smashed by […]
Everyone is talking about the fatigue and safety issues involved with racing gallopers on a Saturday night, and quite rightly too because it really will require jockeys to work far too many hours in a week, and to ride and then drive home afterward bone tired. What industry folk haven’t quite got their heads around […]
"HE LUNGES TO PICK HIM UP AND HE GOT HIM!"Dan Mielicki seized the moment with an entertaining call of the clerks' successful chase and capture of a runaway trotter at Charlton this afternoon! pic.twitter.com/o18xpT01DP — The Trots (@TheTrotsComAu) April 10, 2024
Can anyone in the world explain why Celine Gaudray elected to take a sit on Buffalo River in the Victoria Handicap on Saturday at Caulfield? It seems insane given that 6 of of Buffalo River’s 8 Australian wins have come when it has led, and the other two came when it was positioned in 2nd […]
The greyhound meeting at Sandown Park on Sunday looked suspiciously like a gallops program run on the poly track at the Gold Coast. There were 9 races run on the program. Only one of them had a full field of eight starters. One other had 7 runners. All the rest had fields of 6 or […]
The boffins at Racing Victoria very rarely get their big ideas right. For proof look at the now abandoned mandatory scanning of international runners in the Melbourne Cup; the now abandoned ‘race only 6 days a week’ policy; the now abandoned whip-free race meeting; the all but abandoned idea to build a new national peak […]
