Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We might have suffered a blow on Saturday in the Derby due to the incompetence of the BOM predictions and Sydney’s ridiculous weather, but the news ain’t all bd. Sharp N Smart has come through the run okay, and the stable is California dreaming about the Cups. So they should be too. I still reckon […]
They say that the Racing Integrity Act indemnifies Stewards against being sued for acts they do and don’t perform, and that the Commissioner is protected too. The horse whisperers bray that QRIC staff members who have helped an authorised officer exercise a power under the Act are too. That may be so, but in my […]
Nathan Jack on behalf of the Cluse family paid $270 000 for the top lot of the sale, and who wouldn’t if they had the dough? He’s a gorgeous looking Captain Treacherous colt, from the first crop of the former top-class race mare Carlas Pixel, who won the Ladyship Mile, the Breeders Crown and the […]
This is the list of supposed currently suspended drivers published on harnessweb, a site run by Harness Racing Australia. Sharyn Slater’s name should not be on it. Her career ended in 2005 after a horrific accident on the track at Carrick. Sadly in 2017 Sharyn died. It’s not very respectful having her name published on […]
The Wade Birch led Greyhound Welfare and Integrity Commission in NSW (GWIC) is doing a cracker of a job isn’t it? On Saturday night at The Gardens their Stewards let 2 kennel mates run as each other in a race. One of them won too. Shame it wasn’t the right dog. Four Joans was drawn […]
One freezing cold morning in July of the year 2021 the Sherlock Holmes department of the RIB decided to conduct a covert operation in Kumeu, as part of CEO Mike Clement’s strategy to make harness racing great again by waging a war on turmeric and pepper. Most idiotic adventures start fr0m what seems a good […]
Betterzipit’s New Zealand racing record. It’s not that flash is it? On Saturday night Betterzipit, a former reasonably well performed but far from top class Kiwi import trained by Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson, line up against a bunch of really good pacers, including two who had run placings in separate fair-dinkum Inter Dominions (definition: ones run […]
This is the list of comparative sentences tabled in Sheryl Wigg’s appeal to the High Court against the sentence imposed on the amateur driver and trainer after an undercover surveillance team from the RIB caught her administering a paste made up of turmeric and black pepper to one of her horses on the day of […]
This is the issue that I was talking about at the end of the last story. In her application for a Hight Court judicial review of her manifestly excessive 19 month DQ for giving her horse a turmeric and black pepper paste on raceday, Sheryl Wigg argued that the panel was unlawfully convened, and as […]
The Appellant draws a distinction with the constitution of benches in the Court of Appeal, which regularly involves one permanent Court of Appeal Judge and two sitting High Court Judges. Considering the process outlined above, it is clear that there is an analogy, rather than a distinction, to be drawn between the Appeals Tribunal and […]
