Nude Tips
One guess what the good Dr Whiting’s special this week is? If you said My Gladiola then a gold star to you. The Doc got 5 last week. This week she is aiming for 7. I’m backing her.
Spot on Sherlock – But What’s Going on Mr Watson?
Three days ago we asked a rhetorical question about whether five SA greyhound Stewards had been stood down. I say rhetorical because we already knew the answer, but to be on the safe side were just awaiting double confirmation that our mail was correct. It was. Apparently Channel 7 broke the news “exclusively” a few […]
Peter V’Landys Does It Again – This Bloke is Iraklis
Those who knock Peter V’Landys are imbeciles in my opinion, and I mean that with the greatest of respect. Just look at what he has done here. The price of fuel is going through the roof, trainers can’t sleep at night worried that they are f**ked, owners are thinking to themselves “Sh*t, how am I […]
The Cambridge Harness Story Changes Course
Well, well, well. It appears from this latest release that the mail we got from Cambridge may have been wrong. We are now hearing that the once thought to be suspect payments that former CEO David Branch received from the club may have been simply repayments of money that Branch kicked in from his personal […]
On Tongue Ties and Blinkers
Mate, Before writing ya slop about You And I and the blinkers/tongue tie etc, did you even watch the replay? (Answer = No; I worked off the Stewards Report) The horse that ran stone cold motherless did in fact wear blinkers and what looked like a tongue tie. The horse was presented to the mounting […]
Former jockey Mark Aghan jailed for bizarre robbery and arson attack in Coober Pedy
Highly decorated? I have never even hear of the bloke. Have you? Story by Charlie Dadds A once highly decorated Australian athlete has been jailed after he descended into a life of crime and drugs following a career-ending fall and the sudden death of his wife. Former jockey Mark William Aghan, 65, was sentenced in […]
Why I Reckon Judge O’Brien is a Genius
People ask me why I speak so highly of retiring QLD Racing Appeals Panel Chairperson Judge Kerry O’Brien, despite him having kicked me in the arse in an exercise of judicial discretion that I thought was rather skewed those with LLB’s way, albeit in my opinion orderly but unfairly. Doesn’t matter though, I’m from Geebung, […]
Who’s Got The Gear?
So the punters who bet on You And I in race 5 at Eagle Farm today do so thinking that the horse is wearing blinkers and a tongue tie, because the Racing Australia and RQ websites don’t tell them otherwise. The horse’s trainer Jackson Morris doesn’t present the horse to race with either. While I […]
The Fallout From the APG After-Sale Incident in Sydney
The rumors out of APG Sydney post-yearling sale event are ugly. Apparently a very senior unpaid official of the company manhandled a staff member that they were for one reason or another extremely unhappy with. The official was said to have been drinking red wine heavily for many hours before the incident, and is reported […]
For the Avoidance of Any Doubt
This morning we published a letter from a reader regarding apprentice jockeys in QLD, which specifically mentioned Jaden Lloyd. The letter was genuine ,as are all the letters that we publish – anything I write myself I do so under my own name – but as is our consistent practice we do not publish our […]