Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What sort of worst practice head injury assessment (HIA) is this? A horse rears up and smacks its jockey in the head. No assessment at all is done by a paramedic or doctor – or indeed and trained professional – to ascertain the rider’s state of health, other than to ask the jock if they […]
The Stewards at the Charleville race meeting on Saturday afternoon have alluded in their official report that the winner of race 1 Nutso died of colic, not heatstroke. Now I am no vet, but it seems a remarkable diagnosis given the distinct similarities in symptoms shown by horses suffering from either condition; that no modern […]
We are reliably informed that the words exchanged by jockeys Thomas and Morrison are not the subject stewards inquiry into a mounting yard incident after the running of the last race. Mud in our eye. Sorry Nathan and Lacey. All we can say in our defense is that we were having a stab in the […]
When I worked alongside the now QLD Premier Steven Miles at the United Voice union a decade ago he never had guns like this. Back in those days Miles was a skinny kid turned fleshy, an absolute wimp. Oh how things have changed. People used to carry on about Annastacia Palaszczuk going overseas on holiday […]
The hot word around the streets of Sydney’s west is that former Harness Racing NSW CEO and long-time Peter V’Landys handbag carrier and mate John Dumesny is about to be appointed to one of the three vacant independent spots on the board of the NRL club Wests Tigers. In fact the mail is that the […]
My wife’s great-grandfather Turaroi Tokoma, the well muscled man in the picture without the shirt. Tokoma spoke four languages by the age of 12 – German, English, Samoan, Indonesian and 3 native tongues – without ever having been formally taught or going to school. Most Samoans called him a monkey too. Many white skinned people […]
That’s not a rooster or a another derby Daz – it’s a fish! Was that Brittany Graham’s dad Darrel I spotted in the crowd during the broadcast of the NRL double header in Vegas yesterday? It sure looked like the great man who won the 2011 Chariots of Fire with triple Derby hero Lanercost, the […]
Until yesterday at Rangiora the low grade pacer Barnstormer had been anything but, having won just two races in his 43 start career, the most recent one 30 starts ago in June of 2022. That all changed with a bang on Sunday when Barnstormer stepped out and improved a million miles on his past 5 […]
It’s been a cracker of a weekend for horses in Queensland racing, a real ripper indeed. Two of them are dead within 48 hours, one a galloper at Charleville, the other this pacer at Albion Park. What a wonderful two days in the annals of animal welfare. At the least the undertakers are doing good […]
Ben Yole is back at Burnie and he wins four races, one of them as usual with every runner in the field. Chainsaw’s 72 year old father Wayne – who has trained just 3 winners in the past 15 years, but had a whole bunch of Bain/Summit/Solotrek horses transferred to him after his son was […]
