Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tasmania Wayne Yole succeeds his son Benjamin as the State’s leading trainer, leading in twice as many winners as his nearest rival Tammy Langley, albeit with three times the number of runners. Rohan Hillier wins the drivers title by a street, with 89 winners from 341 drives at a strike rate of 26.1%. Tiarna Ford […]
Central Coast trackwork rider Gary Kramer has been suspended for 22 months after throwing a personal positive swab to banned illegal drugs after riding in trackwork at Port Macquarie in late September. The sentence may appear harsh, but its not given that this was the fifth time that Kramer has returned a positive to drugs. […]
The ridiculous recent trend of jockeys failing to ride their mounts out fully to the finish continued in the 3rd race at Eagle Farm yesterday, when Cody Collis dropped his hands on the well fancied Heartoni and cost it 3rd place. In a sure sign that the Stewards are getting mighty sick of the […]
The Stewards weren’t happy about Doug Hewitt’s drive on Mach Assassin in the 1st race at Albion Park last night. Neither were the punters who backed the horse from $17.00 into $7.50. Both had very good cause, for Hewitt’s steer was a shocker that cost Mach Assassin any chance of probably winning the race, and […]
It must just have been a fantasy. Someone better tell Frank.
Do you remember the horse Cracker Opie that we wrote about in a story last week? The one we said was driven as dead as a maggot? Well guess what? Today we found out why it had been hooked. Cracker Opie was being set for a $25 000 Maiden, and wouldn’t be eligible if he […]
Breaking news out of Rockhampton is that the QRIC have raided the stables of trainer Nick Walsh after one of his horses threw banned steroid Stanozolol in the trainer’s possession. Older readers might remember that drug, it’s the one that the cheating sprinter Ben Johnson was using when he ran 9.79 seconds for the 100m […]
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated – Mark Twain Namazu is not dead! Praise be for that. Trainer Ricky Vale and owner Pav Cheimrdinov have separately contacted us this morning to let us know that although their great galloper suffered a serious and career-ending injury during the race at Rockhampton yesterday, they are […]
Q: Mr Macaulay, we were talking before the break about your resignation. We had gotten up to the email from you saying, “I indicate were I to resign I will only do so because I am forced to do so.” You then subsequently sent an email that said, “In compliance with your request, and on […]
Robert ‘Bobajob’ Macauley was asked by counsel assisting the Inquiry into Greyhound Racing NSW to explain why he resigned as the CEO of the organization. Bobajob gave an extremely long-winded answer (excerpts below) in which he painted himself as a true leader nobly doing the brave and righteous thing to save his organisation. Q. … […]
