Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The poor old Weidenbach family has been in the wars lately. Olivia got tied up with the Ford’s in Tasmania, and copped a criminal conviction and an 18 month DQ. Dumb young silly kid, who like all of us in our immaturity made a bad mistake. The problem is that by doing so she drew […]
Coffs Harbor racehorse trainer Brett Bellamy has been suspended from the sport for almost half a year after being found guilty of three counts of sexual harassment of female racing participants. His offending conduct included making remarks with sexual connotations concerning one participant’s body, engaging in sexual harassment of another female industry participant by making […]
We have been writing for months about claims of misconduct being made against the boss of a major standardbred yearling sales company. There are only two. Nutrien and APG. And the Nutrien boss Mark Burton is a stand up guy who respects women to the nth degree. APG CEO Anthony Essex (pictured at top) is […]
News just in. The sexual harassment case against the yearling sales company boss that we told you about the other day is not the only one. There is another too. We have seen and heard some of the evidence. It’s ugly. This bloke should be sacked on the spot. Apparently he’d got form from a […]
A member of a well known NZ harness racing family has just had a very lucky reprieve in the NZ courts. The bloke – a trainer – has been granted a no conviction record for his indecent assault on a poor innocent young female trot paricipant. The decision is a disgrace. What is worse is […]
The rumors out of APG Sydney post-yearling sale event are ugly. Apparently a very senior unpaid official of the company manhandled a staff member that they were for one reason or another extremely unhappy with. The official was said to have been drinking red wine heavily for many hours before the incident, and is reported […]
It appears that we got the detail of jockey Corey Bayliss legal troubles slightly wrong in our earlier story. Bayliss has not been charged with breaching a Domestic Violence Order as we stated in the story. The latest information that has come to light is that he has been charged with an alleged domestic violence […]
That’s a monster of a sentence the 25 year disqualification handed down to jockey James Innes Jr this week by Racing NSW Stewards, one of the heaviest short of life that I have ever seen, although to a 30 year old mid-rung rider life is what it really is. I don’t know what Innes did […]
In a week in which female riders Angela Jones and Emily Lang are quite rightly getting all the attention as they battle for the Brisbane premiership, another amazing achievement by women jockeys has gone largely overlooked. Last Saturday at Middlemount every rider on the card was female. Out on the track up in the saddle […]
We always used to call Jason Grimson Jill as a joke, because they always hung around with Jack Trainor. Jack and Jill went up the hill … da da da da. It seems however that J. Grimson liked the feminization of their name, because according to Friday night’s Albion Park stewards report they have changed […]
