Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There has been a lot of angst in regional QLD about the QRIC’s new practice of rearranging race meeting times in a purported attempt to best look after the welfare of horses and participants in ‘extreme’ heat. One of the major issues is that things appear to be being directed out of Brisbane, where the […]
Former Tasmanian jockey Kyle Maskiell once had a promising career ahead of him. I don’t know quite what went wrong but it all fall apart. Maskiell hasn’t ridden now since 2022. Given that he is nodding his head to four criminal charges today (we don’t know exactly what they are) it seems unlikely we will […]
We wrote in our live coverage that Mitch Goring’s barrister Tim Ryan QC had done an excellent job for his client, and our judgement was spot on. Goring’s penalty has been altered to a 9-month suspension with the final 6 months of it suspended for a year, meaning he will only serve 3 months, most […]
Further inquiries today have failed to find any substance to the rumor floating around racing circles that a trainer was yesterday detected live baiting. We are told the activity in Smiths Rd, Greenbank yesterday was a drug related police raid that had nothing to do with greyhounds. At this stage there is nothing further to […]
Here are four Ryland Thoroughbred owned horses racing in Queensland that are going to need to find new owners post haste. Until they do the horses should be stood down immediately from racing. We don’t want to be paying any prizemoney to pedophiles.
There are rumors floating around in Queensland racing circles that a greyhound trainer in the south-east corner was yesterday caught live baiting. We don’t have the trainer’s name or the full details yet, but the whispers are very strong. One can only hope for the good of the game that it’s not true. Time we […]
For the second year in succession the Albion Park Harness Racing Club has posted an annual loss of circa three-quarters of a million dollars. It is not all the club management or committee’s fault. They have to a large degree kept spending under control by cutting back on discretionary items of expenditure such as marketing […]
Pink Scooter is a lowly rated 5-year-old pacer with a record of 51 starts for just 2 wins, the most recent of them coming at Dubbo in December last year. The horse has had 25 starts since then without troubling the judge, and his personal times in each of them were somewhat slow to say […]
There were lots 0f take-ways from Cup day. Here are just a few of them. 1 – Weight Stops Trains Over 2 Miles Joseph O’Brien’s Irish St Leger winner Al Riffa was all the hype coming into the Cup, with one punter – online casino operator and billionaire – Ed Craven, who made his money […]
Paul Tonkin (no relation to Clayton Tonkin) and Lindsay Rogers are Victorian harness trainers. Both men suffer from chronic pain from incurable back injuries, and each takes a heavy duty medication called Tapentadol to help alleviate the pain that they endure from dawn to dusk and all the time in between. Tonkin and Rogers each […]
