Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Told you that Verdad was a non-winner didn’t we? The gay deceiver did it again last night, despite dropping six points in grade down to a BM78. You could probably run this first to post hater in a BM58 at Benalla and he’d still find a way to get beaten. Verdad led the field of […]
Did SA trot trainer Shane Loone have a bad day in court this week? Whose urine was really in Jack Brown’s sample? Will the HRNSW Stewards actually pre-race blood test some horses in the market at the Breeders Challenge finals meeting tonight at Menangle? Gai and Adrian tried their hardest to set the Moonee Valley […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
On Tuesday morning officers from the QRIC Compliance Assurance Team (CAT) rocked up to the stables of trainer Ryan Tyrell to conduct an inspection of his two runners at Gatton later in the day. What they found was a pair of horses looking like junkies who’d run out of veins in their arm and resorted […]
The chief executive of a Brisbane racing club has kept his job after being sentenced over the sexual assault of a young woman at an “after-party” at Friday’s Riverside. A racing club boss who admitted to unzipping a young woman’s top in front of a chief executive at a work Christmas party, nearly exposing her, […]
Stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele has this morning been sentenced in the District Court for the admitted crime of sexual assault. Steele was fined just $1000 and ordered to pay his victim $5000 by way of reparation. No conviction was recorded. What a joke. You’d love to have his lawyers if you ever […]
Australia’s oldest jockey Keith Ballard is retiring. So he should too after what happened in race 5 at Mt Isa on the 28th of last month. Ballard rode a Tanya Perry trained 3-year-old gelding named Invading Jilly in the race, and up to until 200 meters from home he rode it well too, popping in […]
We are advised that Bailey Wheeler suffered a dislocated shoulder when a Currie trained runner flipped over behind the barriers at Toowoomba and landed on him. That injury has kept him out for the past month. Wheeler is still apprenticed to Robert Heathcote last anyone heard, and he is back riding this week. Question answered. […]
Watch driver Tiarna Ford’s use of the cane on the winner Hurricane Rock from the 400m mark on in the 6th race at Launceston on Sunday. Hurricane Rock’s the horse in the green and gold coming around the outside. Ford doesn’t just breach the whip rule, she smashes it into little pieces as she smashes […]
Many good judges rate Nick Ryan back in his riding days as the best apprentice of his generation, an elite class kid in his riding days who would have been a Melham or Williams if he hadn’t grown big so fast and got too heavy. That may be well true, but to me Ryan’s just […]
