Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It’s hard to imagine any better start to your professional race driving career than winning the first ever race that you drive in. Until you start to dream about winning your first two. 16yo Zara Fitzpatrick who we told you about a couple of days ago after she won at her first drive has done […]
I wonder how the Racing Minister feels about in the inherent sexism of the Innisfail Jockey Club’s tradies and ladies day? What’s a tradie and who’s a lady, and how do you vet a lady tradie so that they can get in free? Do they have to pull their dacks down to prove that they […]
We hear a lot about Jamie Kah and Michelle Payne breaking glass ceilings in gallops racing, and Kate Gath and Kerryn Manning having done the same at the trots, but little is said about the long-standing role of women in greyhound racing, which has long been an equal opportunity domain. But is it really? In […]
Some people carry on about the ‘woke’ world, a lot of people who are reading this in fact. But does woke mean a weird PC dictum, or it just an awakening to a fair world free of discrimination that has broken glass ceilings and created a barrier free world to achievement, realisation of potential and […]
Little known country NSW trainer Darren Egan has been disqualified for 2 years after pleading guilty to an array of sexual harassment offences perpetrated against 5 unnamed racing participants, presumably females. Egan, who has a 7% strike rate and hasn’t had a runner since July, was convicted of 5 racing rule charges related to his […]
We tried to warn them, but the QRIC allowed a cowardly woman bashing trainer to keep his license and even once be nominated for an annual award. Whilst we won’t name him due to the probability of outstanding yet to be decided charges having been laid, this trainer who has clear but inexcusably dangerous mental […]
(In) Justice Cantor, the judge who let a wife killer off with a good behaviour bond, because she nagged him and drove him to do it. (with then PM Gough Whitlam and Governor-General John Kerr) It is scarcely believable that not all that long ago in Australia supposedly eminent judges would allow men to strangle […]
Under the rules of harness racing no female driver who is pregnant is permitted to drive in races after their first trimester, with the onus on the licensee to inform the controlling body of their pregnancy. It’s a safety issue for the pregnant driver and their unborn baby, not a sexist based imposition on women […]
After another big weekend for women in racing around the world, it might be time for the Hong Kong Jockey Club to again consider why a top female jockey or trainer is yet to join the jurisdiction on a full-time basis. In Sydney on Saturday, jockeys Rachel King and Kathy O’Hara won Group 1 races […]
Everyone’s favorite Woodend Beach based trainer John ‘Lurch’ Dunn employs the young driver Devon van Til (pictured below), or at least his father John and wife Jenna do, or anyway that’s what the registration books say. Yeah right, whatever. According to this article above, Van Til’s 1st introduction to harness racing was when Lurch let […]
