Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Flush from her huge success last weekend, and in honor of her winning special She’s A Huslter, Dr G. Whiting has demanded that I use the lips – which she swears are exactly like hers – on the cover of Hustler magazine as our banner picture this week. So blame the good doctor about the […]
Gai and her mates among the breeders are jumping up and down about the Asian Racing Conference’s plans to give some of the more dodgy Group 1 races in Australia a shave by downgrading them to the status they really deserve. Australia’s black type system under fire amid threat of international downgrade I for one […]
The opportunistic farmer from Sassafras who as Premier put an end to greyhound racing now claims that he is moving to protect the beautiful breed. If Jeremy Rockliff told you it was a hot day you’d put on a snow jacket. Rockliff had never spent a second thinking about greyhounds until his numbers still fell […]
Want to hear something amazing? Emma Stewart is sitting second in the Tasmanian women trainers premiership. She has won the 2nd highest prizemoney of any woman trainer too. Stewart has only had 26 runners in the State all year. 18 of them have won. Her Tasmanian strike rate is 69%. Emma Stewart is also sitting […]
It has been a bad couple of weeks for greyhounds in QLD. A fortnight ago at the Q2 a greyhound named Boston Rocks was severely checked on the fist turn and fell. It suffered a catastrophic near side front leg injury and was given the magic green needle to put it out of its pain. […]
‘Devastating life events’ led to SA horse trainer Ryan Balfour to drink and drive and pass out in his car, court told Story by Natalie Vikhrov, Adelaide Advertiser A prominent South Australian horse trainer was suffering “devastating life events” – including the loss of the family racing business – before he drove so drunk he […]
What the heck was Grant Dixon doing here on the $1.22 favorite Blackjack Crippa yesterday at Albion Park? Blackjack Crippa is drawn gate 2 in the Greg Mitchell colors. It is not a flying beginner, but surely it was up to Dixon to at least have it up on the gate so it didn’t give […]
Albion Park 20 November 2025 Race 8 GARRARDS HORSE AND HOUND PACE 1660m MS Son Of The Shark is a five-year-old that coming into this race had run 55 times for just 5 wins. The quickest of them was the last one, 20 months before, when he had won in 1.53.7 over the mile at […]
NSW harness racing trainer Joe Fenech has escaped penalty despite pleading guilty to a presentation offence involving Levamisole, after raising his use of the supposedly ‘safe’ wormer Fenbender 100 to explain his breach. The Stewards of the Hanging State accepted Fenech’s explanation, finding that the trainer’s culpability for the offence was negligible, as he could […]
A date has been set for the hearing of Harness Racing NSW’s application for Judicial Review of the seminal Ben Sarina decision that ruled that warned off or disqualified people were no longer bound by the rules, because they were prohibited from any involvement in the sport that the rules regulate. The matter will be […]
