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The Rich, the Famous, The Fraudulent, and Maggie and Me
What see above is 4 Mile Beach. The bloke on the ground is Azkadelia’s owner Peter Foster, who was brutally arrested by thuggish police while walking his dogs, which was a shame because Maggie loved giving them a pat on our morning walks. I never told her who their owner was, or that I knew […]
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back – Welcome to Australian Harness Racing Administration
Hello Archie All credit to Lauren Tritton for winning the big Group 1 in Ohio. What an achievement. She was the first female to drive in that race as well. I don’t think there have been many, if any, female drivers competing at that level in the US, we are way ahead of them in […]
Will Any Disgruntled Owners Seek to Have Wiremu Pinn’s Mounts That Beat Their Horse Retrospectively DQ’d? – They Appear to Possibly Have a Case
Oh for the love of Pizza! Wiremu Pinn won 180 races in New Zealand including a Group 1. That Group 1 win was in the Otaki WFA Classic aboard Merv Butterworth’s grand but injury plagued galloper Marscapone, who at his two starts prior to the G1 win had run placing behind Levante, Entriviere and Roch […]
Barcaldine Fall Update
We are told by the QRIC that it wasn’t the Stewards who originally cleared Robbie Fraehr to ride after his fall in race 3 at Barcaldine, it was the ambos. That may well be true, but the ambos aren’t in charge of things on race day, the Stewards are. They make the call, and they […]
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Victorian racing’s biggest challenges not with V’landys, but with itself
Another great story from the Asian Racing Report, who have no skin in the game The most damaging war Victorian racing has been fighting has not been with Peter V’landys, writes Bren O’Brien. Victorian racing is often in outright revolt. Such is the nature of an industry which has over 15 stakeholder groups with competing […]
Horse Racing is More Dangerous than Football for Concussions. Why US (and Australian) Tracks are so Far Behind on Safety
Jockey Rajiv Maragh seemed headed for certain victory as his 3-year-old colt Al Basha thundered down the stretch at Belmont Park on that May afternoon in 2007. But just before crossing the finish line, Al Basha suddenly spooked and turned sharply left. Maragh fell from the saddle, getting kicked in the head on his way […]
Shed No Tears For Silvio Berlusconi
Yeah, bye Silvio. See you in hell. Silvio Berlusconi was one of the most corrupt world leaders of the past half century. He was a bad, bad man who bought everything that he ever saw and wanted, even the Prime Ministership of Italy, which he held three times and used like a shark to prevent […]
Dismissed globally, diminished domestically: The Melbourne Cup’s identity crisis
The Asian Racing Report is the best racing publication in the world. It has brilliant writers, and they produce brilliant stories. This from October last year is one of them. In these dark days of cuts to prizemoney in Victoria it tells a story that everyone needs to hear. A second-tier global event or a […]