The Real Story of Merv Dean – Cardigan Bay’s Owner Was a Pool Hall Proprietor and SP Bookie
Merv Dean will long be remembered as the man who bought the great Cardigan Bay from the Todd brothers of Mataura. But there was much more to Merv than just that. Merv’s parents ran tobacconists in Hamilton, and in his youth Merv assisted his uncle, Henry Lee, one of New Zealand’s most notorious bookmakers. Lee […]
Real Men v Right Royal Charlies
Sir Les Didn’t Eat Quiche – Why Charlie’s Fluffy Coronation Egg Pasty is Queer
Tasmanian Racing Crisis Deepens with Fresh Claims of Corruption and Cruelty
New allegations of animal cruelty, doping, corruption, wage theft, tax evasion and sexual harassment within the harness racing industry demonstrate the need for a broader inquiry than that currently underway, Labor says. Shadow Racing Minister Dean Winter said he had been provided with witness statements given to the Murrihy Inquiry which he said outline even […]
All Kiwis Are Crazy
Just look at this lunatic above. Do you think he’s mad. Then watch this one below. Bloody New Zealand. All Kiwis are crazy. Just ask Planes. https://youtu.be/GICkCkjRX2I
The More Things Change Over in the Wild West, the More They Just Stay the Same
The disastrous barrier draw for the Quokka 2 weeks ago brought back non-fond thoughts of a previous draw disaster for harness racing fans with long memories. Legendary WA based harness racing historian and writer Alan Parker describes the events of the 1987 WA Pacing Cup catastrophe in his brilliant and utterly unappreciated seminal classic The […]
EXCLUSIVE – Yirribee Stud Sale Goes Bad – NSW Breeding Takes a Huge Hit
The hot mail is that the sale of the historic NSW standardbred stud Yirribbee has gone belly up. They say that the buyer Jake Stockton – who too over the stud on a lease in September last year and renamed it Wingate – couldn’t raise the balance of the required finance to pay the deferred […]
It’s Goodnight Nurse for the Radio TAB Breakfast Show – Will the Press Room Be Next?
The Radio TAB breakfast show in Queensland has in in instant gone the way of the dinosaur. It’s been scrapped, and will be replaced by the NSW version of the show. Few will miss it, for it was crap. A wank fest run by a bunch of boys posing as clowns. Just listen to the […]
7 Days Out For This? – They’d Have to Be Bloody Kidding
Mark Purdon was given a 7 day suspension by the RIB for breaching the whip rule in his winning drive on Akuta in the Taylor Mile on Friday night. It’s a joke. Purdon didn’t even warrant a reprimand. Have a look at it see what you think. Akuta is the horse on the outside in […]