11th May 2020
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Black Caviar has safely delivered her third foal, a filly by Snitzel
Horses are like paintings: people will only pay what they think they are worth and that was very much the case a couple of weeks ago
Australian trainer Peter Moody has described a six-month suspension as “a great disappointment” but declared it was unlikely to end his career in racing.
“Maybe I’d been too successful for too long for my own good and hadn’t looked at rectifying practices within my stable which probably wouldn’t have allowed this to happen…”
Is there safety in numbers or is an almighty broom about to sweep through Australia’s training ranks?
This will be a major test of Victoria’s relatively new ‘cheating in sport’ laws
Hearings seem to proceed slowly and the line between fact and fiction, right and wrong, becomes clouded with protracted debate. All this happens while punters press on not knowing who to believe and heavily suspecting they’ve been had.
The South African racing public has warmed to the achievements of Australian equine heroine Black Caviar. And ironically it was a South African jockey that
Pietermaritzburg may well feel like a million miles from Melbourne Down Under. But two top sprinters retained their respective unbeaten records in a great weekend
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
