Have a goddamn look at this.
And try not to vomit.
It is the Launceston trots on the 13th of February, and this is the feature race, the $20 000 Sinbad Bay Final.
Todd Rattray – the driver of the leader Magician, in the red and white – has taken his foot out of the stirrup in the straight and kicked the horse outside him Mayleejae Eagle fair in the guts.
Boot!
It was the most disgraceful act you will ever see on a track short of pulling a gun and shooting a horse, and it made Mayleejae Eagle and his driver Mark Yole fall flat on their nose, just as they were a real chance of winning the race.
I have never seen anything like it.
You won’t either, because the Tasmanian ‘Integrity’ officials have edited the official Tasracing video to cut it out, and somehow the head on Stewards Vision that is published for every other race has vanished.
I don’t need to tell that the Chief Steward on duty was Steven Shinn do I?
The same Steven Shinn who we broke the story about being stood down from duty.
The same Steven Shinn who is a well known mad punter.
The same Steven Shinn who left his employment with Queensland under a cloud.
The same Steven Shinn who cast it about Queensland that this author was full of Edgar Britt, and that he hadn’t been stood down but was merely on annual leave.
The same Steven Shinn who was named in the Tasmanian Parliament on Thursday as having been stood down.
Well now we all know why.
Magician was backed from $2.60 into $1.85.
There are rumours for weeks that a $5000 bet was placed on the horse, and that a Steward received a cut of the profits.
Was it Shinn?
The desperate punt tragic Chief Steward?
Has he allowed this to happen, and has he covered it up?
Mark Yole and his horse could have died.
Is everything we ever heard about the corruption in Queensland racing when he was here ringing true?
The alleged missing swabs.
The alleged inquiries that never happened.
The alleged ones that were hooked.
Did Shinn do them?
Is this bloke is a crook.
Have people’s lives have been placed at risk by a Steward, and have they done it for money?
They say that a man by 50 has the face that he deserves.
Steven Shinn has the face of Gerald Ryan.
Of course he does.
Of course he does.
Shinn (above), and Ryan (below)
