Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is taken verbatim from the Stewards inquiry into Jason Maskiell’s hook job at Seymour. It was all his son’s broken collarbone’s fault. Jockey Maskiell’s mindset was all wrong. CHAIRMAN: Okay. Is there anything you want to put forward now to the Stewards? MASKIELL: Yeah. Yeah, just in hindsight, my mindset was probably a bit […]
Jason Maskiell in race 4 at Seymour on the 15th of November. He is in the green, yellow sleeves and red cap, riding the horse with the white blaze. Maskiell one race later, in the yellow with blue and red cap, near the fence. There is a bit of a difference in the rides isn’t […]
Alicia Rose was once a promising mare who at the ages of three and four, when trained by Angela Davies at Narara, racked up the excellent record of 10 starts for 5 wins, 4 seconds and a third. Her connections thought so highly of the mare that they took her off Davies after she won […]
Lot 62 at this week’s NZ National Yearling sale in Auckland on the weekend is a beautifully bred colt by champion sire Bettors Delight out of the dual Group 3 winning mare Spellbound, a daughter of Art Major. He’s a cracking looking type too the colt, tall and rangy yet well structured and strong, with […]
Was David Moran actually trying on Tedesco in this race at Shepparton on Tuesday night? It didn’t look like it, that’s for sure. Tedesco is the horse with the gun run behind the leader. It has blown like a gale in the betting, out from $1.95 to $4.40. We soon see why. The sprint lane […]
You may remember us writing extensively at the back end of last year about the Albany Racing Club’s’ financial woes and its corrupt CEO. Well the CEO is now gone, but the club’s financial problems remain. So much so that on Wednesday the control body Racing and Wagering Western Australia (RWWA) announced that it has […]
The big harness racing news out of New Zealand is that multiple premiership winning trainer Mark Purdon is launching a North Island stable. Purdon, who in recent times has been in a training partnership with his son Nathan despite living in the North Island, will base his new operation out of Steven Reid’s former barns […]
Remember the team driving rort by the Reece Moore stable at Port Pirie on Friday night? The one where the odds on favorite was put out the back and not pulled out to make its run until it was too late, thus allowing the stablemate and leader to win? Well the same two horses clashed […]
Tasked with cleaning up racing in Tasmania, respected integrity official Sean Carroll says his top priority is to rebuild the confidence of the racing public and racing participants in the Apple Isle – Sean Carroll last week on Racenet It’s fair to say there hasn’t been a lot of confidence in Tasmanian racing. I can […]
Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch has been granted a stay of operation of his 12 month suspension for a positive swab. Hatch was actually suspended for 9 months after being found guilty of a presentation charge by Stewards, but the conviction enlivened a previous 9 month suspended sentence that he received for a previous positive swab, […]
