Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well the votes are in and Peter V’Landys has been reelected as Australia’s Greatest Racing Administrator in a landslide. The votes being the 2024/25 annual reports of Racing Victoria and NSW. The numbers being the electors. Here is a summary of the count. Racing NSW revenue was $116 million less than that of Racing Victoria […]
The inconsequential error by the Racing Appeals Panel (RAP) wasn’t the only thing interesting about this week’s decision on the Joshua Morrow appeal by RAP-190. The error of magnitude in the original Stewards penalty that it exposed was interesting too, if only for its illustration of the fallibility of our integrity officials and the need […]
We are rarely critical of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel (RAP), whose work we hold in the highest regard. It is once in a blue moon that the panel makes a mistake. But when that blue moon rises comment must be made. The QRAP stuffed up in the Joshua Morrow case. Not once, but twice. […]
Tasmanian thoroughbred and harness racing may not seem to care a great deal about the impending shut down of greyhound racing in the State, but neither code seems to realize what is about to hit them when the dogs are gone. You see greyhound racing accounts for 39.5% of wagering turnover on Tasmanian races, yet […]
What the hell were Victorian Police doing putting handcuffs on former CFMEU Secretary John Setka after they arrested him yesterday and led him away in front of the cameras that just so conveniently happened to be there. It all seemed like quite the set up to me. Setka is 61 years old. He has dealt […]
The good news for harness racing is that N40 owner Josh Davine has resolved the issues that led to him making the decision to severely downsize his racing interests, and will be staying in the game. Nutrien’s online N40 Reduction Sale will go ahead as planned, but those anticipating a cheap fire sale will be […]
Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen decided to take his old mate Gus on a trip to New Zealand. It was a working trip. Gus was there to run in the Dominion Handicap, and Pete was there to pull off a plunge. It seemed a pretty ambitious plan. Gus had won a Group 2 and a Group 3 […]
See this Ewan Sexton chap in the picture? The new Manager of Corporate Governance and Strategy at Harness Racing NSW? Nothing against the bloke, who I am sure is a very nice chap, but who is he and where did his job come from? We have searched up, down and sideways and cannot find any […]
No that’s not the witch in the picture, that’s the wife. I just like the picture. The mail is that Entain’s boss down under Andrew Vouris isn’t real happy that we broke the news about the company’s upcoming round of redundancies before he could do the advance spin. In fact it seems that our exclusive […]
Well not really. But it is highly likely that the Big O would have been if the race had been run under the modern rules. Darren Beadman went berserk with the whip on the great horse, hitting him by my count 19 times prior to the 100 meter mark, which these days would get a […]
