Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Having clocked up hundreds of hours of being on the track in 25 years at Burnie and beyond with the water truck operating a boom spray that looks way too regular a patch for the boom spray to have being turned around on whilst still on. The laws of physics mean that the inside of […]
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed We asked a question during the week about where Aaron Bain was, having not raced a […]
So who’s the Kiwi trainer who put their hand up this time and said they administered the Levamisole? Six or eight weeks after importation, two races apart sounds more like local administration then an imported problem Could the difference be that NSW tests, as you claim is essential for integrity, every winner and the other […]
Lucky Lingard has been on fire over at his ever excellent website letsgohorseracing.com, and his last two in depth articles have been crackers. Here is the first of them about the Gold Coast track debacle. It’s a stuff up not sabotage says Lucky, and I believe him. Have a read and see what you think. […]
By award winning racing writer John Lingard letsgohorseracing.com.au (Reproduced with permission) PRESSURE is mounting on the new LNP Government to instruct Racing Queensland to deliver a ‘please explain’ to the Brisbane Racing Club over its continued refusal to immediately provide a copy of the minutes of the controversial AGM that was held in October. Several […]
The last time Grubby Day turned up half-pissed to ride after a big night out he spotted the RBT and bolted, then hid in the toilet when the testers went looking for him at the caravan park that he was staying in. N. Day was later able to convince the QLD Racing Appeals Panel that […]
Harness racing returns to Menangle tonight after a near 3-week absence, and it’s about bloody time too. I realize that HRNSW have been doing this ill-conceived shutdown of racing at headquarters over the Xmas for a few years now, but just because something is familiar doesn’t mean that it’s right. It’s not. Shifting metropolitan class […]
Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack is probably feeling anything but crackerjack after copping a 9 month disqualification after throwing a pair of positive swabs to Levamisole on NSW soil, both with the same Kiwi import (name – Skinnydip) in races run 2 weeks apart, and 6-8 weeks after the horse arrived in Australia. He shouldn’t be too […]
The inconsequential 3-month suspension issued to a trainer for groping a young female jockey as he legged her up in the mounting yard at a recent Queensland race meeting set me to thinking about the uselessness of revoking a person’s ability to race at meetings they never would have raced at anyway. This flaw in […]
We told you last month about a trainer having been stood down for inappropriately touching a young female jockey as she was being legged up aboard the horse she was riding for him at a country QLD meeting. Inappropriate is not actually the right word to describe the trainer’s outrageous actions – it was an […]
