Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Outside of novelty events where a heat and final is run on the same program, it has been quite a while since we’ve seen horses allowed to race twice on a single card in a day. After what we saw at the Cambridge Paceway last night you would have to say that there is a […]
In the day we sweat it out on the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through the mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on Highway 9 Chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and steppin’ out over the line Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back It’s a […]
The All-clear for the race was delayed to permit Stewards to review the Judge’s initial placings as it was their observation that KABAYO KING and ARCTIC PEGASUS had carried the incorrect numbers and had started from incorrect positions, although on the correct handicap mark. Having reviewed the official vision the Stewards satisfied that the identity […]
We have been trying to warn everyone for a long time now that the FBI racing busts in America were the beginning, not the end. For over a year now we have been writing stories telling you that the phone taps in the USA picked up drug cheats from all over the world talking about […]
You may remember the case of Norm Loy, the country gallops trainer who was last year disqualified for three months after the following comment on his Facebook page about the then NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian: “You are the biggest fucking moron Gladys Berefucklien. How can you lockdown an entire state you stupid fucking mole. All […]
Unlike in New South Wales, where jockeys like Tommy Berry are allowed to get away with breaching the whip rule at almost every meeting they ride, and not receive a punishment, the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board officials are getting tough on animal abuse. Good on them too. These below are the punishments handed down […]
Queensland’s thoroughbred Chief Steward Peter Chadwick doesn’t seem to know which way is up. The official Steward’s Report states clearly that jockey Nathan Day was disqualified for 9 months in relation to the ‘incident’ that occurred at Callaghan Park involving the Clerk of the Scales. Disqualification means that Day cannot participate in the racing industry […]
Dual code superstar John ‘JC’ Catton won the $500 000 QTIS Jewel at the Gold Coast on Saturday with his sensational two-year-old filly She’ssgottheboom. Reports are that a huge night was had that carried on well into Sunday morning. At lunchtime the very next day JC, who has clearly got the constitution of an Ox, […]
The CEO of Harness Racing NSW Mr John Dumesny (pictured above) has been in touch early this morning to advise that the control body certainly does not condone or support the types of sexualised post that we highlighted overnight as appearing on the Wagga Harness Club’s Facebook page. Mr Dumesny says that he suspects that […]
