Just Ignore the Mainstream Media’s Bullshit – Dan Andrews and Labor are Birds
If you believed what you read or heard from the mainstream media you’d be convinced that Dan Andrews was going to lose his seat in the Victorian election tomorrow, and that his Labor Government was gone. It’s absolute bullshit. Andrews holds his seat with by an outright majority of almost 7%, before preferences even come […]
Gallops Tips
It’s a pretty lean day at the races todays and once that is screaming upset results, so we’ve limited our tips to six. I reckon there are a few winners among them too. Good luck, and have a winning day. We will. Gold Coast Race 7 no 1 – Juan Diva This mare can’t go […]
Keep Your Hands Off Our Silver, Hall Of Fame Tells Auckland Trotting Club
The debt-laden Auckland Trotting Club is almost down to selling the family silver but has struck opposition in its latest bid to demolish Australasia’s only harness racing museum to make way for parking. The ATC reduced its debt from $122million to $73million last month by finally completing its sale of a large chunk of land […]
The World According to a Cheap Watch Salesman
Jamie Mackinnon runs a business in Auckland selling cheap watches to shops in Levin and the Mangere Town Centre under the banner of Olympic Swiss, even though most of them are actually made in Thailand and wholesaled through China, which makes you wonder about the Chinese developers who’ve got the rights to buy the Pukekohe […]
The Dodgiest Race in the World – And the Chairman of Stewards Who Didn’t Care
See the blokes on the far right in the crowd watching the first race at the Burnie trots last Friday night? They’re associated with the Ben Yole stable. See the man in the white long sleeved shirt? That is the Chief Steward Roger Brown, who is chairing the Stewards panel at the meeting. What is Brown […]
Tasracing Makes a Quarter of a Million Dollar Donation to the Ben Yole Foundation For Shooting Horses in the Head and Chopping Them Into Little Pieces With a Chainsaw
Ben Yole earns $11 in prizemoney for every $9 that the other nine trainers in the top ten earn combined, which is no surprise at all because Yole produces three times as many starters each week as the rest of them put together. Based on these numbers then, Tasracing’s seemingly crazed announcement to pour another […]
The Zipping Classic at Caulfield? – Let’s Hold Catholic Mass in a Mosque Too
When Peter V’Landys cheekily suggested during the Victorian COVID-19 lockdown two years back that the Melbourne Cup should be run at Randwick every man and his dog poo-pooed him, quite rightly saying that the Cup is a Flemington race and that should never change. It is too, and it should always be run at headquarters. […]
Racing Victoria’s International Horse Actions are the White Australia Policy Redux
Yet another international galloper has been scratched from racing in Victoria in a big race. This time it is the English galloper Without A Thought, who – like Durston in the Caulfield Cup – was the favourite to win the Zipping Classic being run at Caulfield tomorrow. During the repeated CT scanning taking process applied […]
Another Day, Another Wildly Inappropriate Queensland Teacher
At the time that a man named Nicholas Dargush posted the disturbing images republished above and below, he was a primary school teacher at Kelvin Grove State School, which is the largest school in the QLDEducation Minister Grace Grace’s electorate. Ten years later – today – Nicholas Dargush is still working with primary school children. […]