Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See that smallish chap in the picture working behind the barriers at the Home Hill races yesterday? That’s jockey Scott Sheargold. He had three rides earlier in the meeting, then swapped out of silks and into civvies and took up duties as a barrier attendant for the rest of the day. Where else in the […]
Star WA pacer Never Ending is now the $2.50 favorite to win the $2.1 million The Eureka, run at Menangle in 10 days time. This is why. You don’t see many horses run home their final quarter over 2300m in 26.3 seconds like this horse did on Saturday night in his tune up for the […]
Racing NSW has collected training cost information from a cross-section of trainers in order to estimate the total payments made by owners for racehorse training, veterinary and spelling costs. Assuming a horse is in work eight months and spelling four months each year, a survey of Metropolitan, Provincial and Country trainers reveals the average annual […]
Returns to Trainers, Jockeys and Stablehands The exponential increases in prizemoney in NSW has not only benefited the owners, but has seen trainers, jockeys and stablehands all receive growth in incomes that far outstrips any other state in Australia. This shared success through the distribution of prizemoney has ensured that all participants in NSW have […]
ATC unsolicited proposal to the NSW Government for the sale of Rosehill Racecourse The ATC has been progressing an unsolicited proposal to the NSW Government for the sale of Rosehill Racecourse. Racing NSW will be analysing this proposal in detail and ensuring the proper due diligence is completed and the outcomes are in the best […]
A 4-year-old mare named Home Creek collapsed at the 500m mark in race 1 Aramac on Saturday. Two horses went over the top of her. The riders of the three fallen horses Tim Brummell, Anna Bakos-Schrapel and Robbie Faehr were all taken to hospital with injuries. T’was but for the Grace of God none of […]
Globe Derby was shut down for racing on the 1st of July when work began on remediating the track. It was supposed to be a relatively simple exercise. Lift a couple of inches off the top of the surface and put down a new one, and build a 628 meter training track in the infield […]
I’m a massive fan of jumps racing and always have been, but when you have seven horses die during the relatively short jumps racing season and three perish on the showpiece final day, plus a jockey in intensive care wife life shattering head injuries, it’s becoming hard to the point of impossible to mount an […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC15082409.mp4 Watch Danielle Veivers flog the living bejesus out of the horse in the blue silks with red sleeves This Punter Rocks at Albion Park a fortnight ago. Veivers hits the horse more than 20 times, most of the strikes using force generated by the use of the elbow or shoulder when applying the whip, many […]
Jockey Jason Hoopert doubles as a race day photographer, and presumably has a Racing Queensland issued media pass that allows him into the saddling enclosure to take pictures such as this. Given the comments that he has made that you can see under the picture at the top it should be immediately revoked. There is […]
