Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the three embargoes placed on horses by the Stewards after the Bowen race meeting on Saturday 11 April? Well they might have been, but they weren’t. As I write this it is Sunday the 19th of April. Not a single one of the embargoes has been put in place. See below. This is very, […]
Captain Maverick, last in the lime green with black and white sleeves and black and white checked cap, was an outsider at $71.oo in race 5 at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Notwithstanding the price, it was a very odd ride by Kyle Wilson-Taylor, and had he taken the right option instead of the wrong, the […]
Remember us telling you a couple of months ago about how Cloncurry trainer Terry Hall (pictured at top) was moving to Barcaldine to train out of the jigger man Todd Austin’s stables at Barcaldine, after Austin was refused a license when his electric DQ expired and his previous bowler Brett Cavanough bailed, not that he […]
You wouldn’t want to be in a hurry to get your appeal heard in the Apple Isle. The Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board appears to move as fast as a 3-legged turtle crossed with a slug. Gallops jockey Catherine Van Muster (who has a stay) was suspended for a month for careless riding in July last […]
Can you see the mistake? If you can’t pick up the newspaper, or grab a calendar, and check the date. The Stewards obviously didn’t. Friday was the 17th. Saturday was the 18th. It’s the little things that count. Like knowing what day of the week it is.
See those poor dead horses laying by a dried up pool? They are racehorses. This property is/was owned by a registered breeder named Catherine Smith. The story that follows makes me sick. I hate writing it. Wanna vomit. Do. This is a story of indifference and neglect at all levels of racing, welfare and animal […]
RSPCA QLD claims that it exists for animals to live better lives. Last year it was paid more than $60 million for the purpose. A concerned citizen contacted the organization that purports to care for animals, and told them about the dead horses. They got this reply. They weren’t supposed to. It was an internal […]
We wrote a week ago about Max Delight’s appalling trial at Menangle where it was beaten by 180m, and asked the question about whether its’ racing days might be over. Watching the trial in the absence of any explanation you would have thought so. Next thing you know though, Max rocks up in Perth in […]
