Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The NZ Racing Integrity Board is the greatest white elephant since Dumbo turned grey. After last year doing the hitherto unthinkable (because it was purposeless exercise) and auditing every greyhound kennel in New Zealand – yes, they all had doors and walls with dogs inside them – the IRB has in 2023 decided to adopt […]
Of course they were. Of course they were. Lightning did not strike the trio, for the odds of that occurring are far less than those of 3 healthy young horses dying in the space of 16 weeks from unrelated causes. We like to back the roughies here at the RIB. It was unrelated causes. “Oh […]
High-profile racehorse trainer Gerald Ryan – the man at the centre of explosive allegations by jockeys of historical sexual abuse – was allowed to set up stables in Queensland after fleeing Victoria, but only under under strict conditions. One condition, according to a former board member of the Queensland Principal Club (QPC), the state’s racing […]
Graham Dwyer is a gun Queensland trot trainer who ran 4th in the State Premiership championship last year with a win rate of about one in every eight starters from over 850 that he took to the track. Dwyer rarely steers them these days though. In 2022 he drove just 44 times, and won just […]
Former trailblazing jockey and now career development officer for Racing SA Clare Lindop offers her opinion on Racenet that our sport has a real problem with the lack of young men who are seeking to become apprentice jockeys and make it their profession. I totally agree with what Clare says, but sadly she doesn’t look […]
This is taken from the TAB website yesterday. You and I who are regular punters know it’s not true, but what is a newcomer to wagering on the sport supposed to think. “Oh, this J. Orman is an apprentice” is what. This is not a one off, it happens all the time in the TAB […]
See that fella aged 50-something walking down Flinders Street in Melbourne with a big grin on his face and his tongue stuck firmly in his cheek? That’s Adam Hamilton. He doesn’t really thing that Jason Grimson is not harness racing’s most amazing trainer. Hamilton is just taking the piss. Just like you and I do, […]
Summit Bloodstock won 4 races at last night’s Hobart Cup meeting, including the big one. Three of them were very recent NZ imports trained by Emma Stewart. I wanna know how she did it. Ben Yole also trained one of Summit’s winners. I wanna know how he did it too. Here are the winners and […]
Jason Grimson has been racing a team in Victoria since the 25th of November. He has started eight horses since that time. All bar three have won. Those two are Majestic Cruiser which ran as a tired horse in the heats of ID22; Sicario, which ran a close second in the Group 2 Bendigo Cup […]
Elione Chaves won six Swedish jockeys premierships. Karl Zechner once won the South African triple crown, becoming only the third jockey in history to do it. Yesterday the once distinguished riders were kicking around the back blocks of Ipswich. They won a race each, Chaves a maiden and Zechner a Class 2. It’s funny game […]
