Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
(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 […]
This is the 21st century isn’t it? The year is 2023. We have progressed. Men can n0 longer rape their wives under the protection of the law. Women vote. Their place is no longer in the kitchen. They don’t get sacked when they are pregnant. Thanks to Pam O’Neill, in racing women now compete on […]
Everyone was at the dogs tonight. It was great to see new Racing QLD CEO Jason Scott in amongst it. Even better was seeing the legendary Pammie O’Neill at the track. That’s Pam with my old mate Pas and the 2nd place trophy in the Group 1 QLD Cup. Beaten a bloody nose. Good on […]
A lot of people have bagged women’s sport over the years, and called it second rate, but they are all very, very wrong. The only reason that women in the past didn’t play as well as men was because they weren’t allowed to. That’s all changed now, and the world is a hugely better place […]
Listen to this. It’s Jason Bonnington speaking. ‘Really, (indistinct) had a gear change that much. Probably should. Brittany Graham’s not really my go.” WTF? Everyone in racing knows that a gear change in the way that this grub is talking about it means gelding, or having your testicles removed. Bonnington has said this is on […]
What sort of warped and weird world are the NZ Racing Integrity Board living in where a jockey can be sent out of the sport for 6 days on suspension for hitting a horse two times more than permissible in a race, but a male trainer who grabs a female fellow participant by the neck […]
Not that many people would know it given the lack of any proper marketing or promotion of the event, but the heats of the Australian Female Drivers Championship are on at Albion Park tonight, pitting some of (but not all) of the best reinswomen from around the land against the Mcmullen sisters Narissa and Taleah, […]
