By the Way, Happy New Year
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A Death at the Track on a Summer Saturday Afternoon
That’s not Orbisyn. But it is the crossing at which he fell. I was there at the Doomben track yesterday with my young child, having a family day out together at the races. Orbisyn got the green curtain treatment after sliding out at the corner, just after the crossing where the access to the track […]
The Peter Profit Australian Horse of the Year Awards
Given that it’s the last day of the season, we have decided to hand out the Peterprofit.com pacing awards of the year. So here they are. The prize is a free lemonade at the pokies when they are giving them out free. We’d be interested in your thoughts on our selections, and promise to publish […]
Any Two in the Dub! – Multiply the Odds!
Sydney and Melbourne stewards put up their official reports on race meetings within an hour of it ending. It’s after midnight and the QRIC Stewards still haven’t put up their report for yesterday’s meeting. Why not? Are they huddling together trying to figure out how to hide the death of Orbisyn on the track, so […]
A Peptide a Day Keeps the Clean Trainers Away – Day 1 – How To Start
Over the next week we are going to give you a lesson on how to cheat, courtesy of the online drug seller Horse and Camel Supplies. We will start at the beginning, how to start. Enjoy. Most people think that the products for competition stimulates the nervous system by exciting, or enhancing the animal capacities: […]
From the Penthouse to the Cellar
I’m sure that the syndicate of bloodstock folk who paid $300 000 f0r the Written Tycoon yearling half brother to black type winner Assimilate at the Magic Millions sale 2 years must have had high hopes for their expensive new colt. No doubt that’s why they sent him to Mick Price to prepare. They would […]
The Seer Sets Us Straight re Moreton Bay – And Tips Us a Winner
Moreton Bay dead? Crikey if it was dead 25 horses are having a run every meeting. The horse was that fat it looked like it was going to foal down in the enclosure pre race and ran accordingly, hence the drift. Clearly the Dale Evans running and handling inquiry has become the QRIC December KPI […]
Auckland’s Field Size Woes Continue
There are two Group races on the card at Alexandra Park on New Year’s Eve, the time honoured Group 2 Franklin Cup for pacers at its 77th running and the 33rd running of the Group 3 Greenlane Cup for trotters. The races are worth $60 000 and $50 000 respectively, which is good money for […]
His Honour’s Right Hand Man Was on the Punt
How bad is this? The judges assistant at the Reefton Cup meeting was on the punt while on duty. People at the meeting saw him at the tote window in full view of everyone there putting bets on. Presumably one of them tipped off the Stewards, and good on them too. Imagine what might have […]
The NZ Racing Integrity Board is a Tragic Joke
New Zealand has this whizz bang racing integrity system under which race day stewards no longer charge trainers and riders and hit them with a fine or suspension on the spot after they breach the rules. Instead the stewards lay a charge against a licensee, and a panel of ‘independent’ adjudicators who are paid thousands of […]