SOME of racing's rogue elements are more difficult to rein in than others.

MATT STEWART reports in the MELBOURNE HERALD SUN that blogs and forums are rogue territory and near-impossible to be held to account for accusations that would not survive the first legal test of traditional media.

A racing website called Lucky 88 posted two scandalous blogs earlier this month.

They survived for a week or so - being fed to the site's claimed 2000-plus subscribers - before being pulled down amid concerns that Racing Victoria and its lawyers were investigating.

Lucky 88's first claim was that the Racing Victoria board was corrupt, that Damien Oliver was given a lenient sentence for race betting because he tipped to the RVL board and had threatened to name names.

Lucky 88 claimed Oliver had regularly tipped to RVL chairman Michael Duffy.

There is no evidence to support these allegations.

It claimed that RVL had swept a handful of positive swabs to Peter Moody-trained horses under the carpet because Moody was too successful, too famous, to expose.

Blogs are a fact of life and are virtually unstoppable.

But in the case of Lucky 88, Racing Victoria has had a gutful - and so has Moody.

RacingB*itch, a site that originates from Hong Kong and claims to be the most-read racing site in the world, provided a link to Lucky 88 when it published its Oliver and Moody claims.

Lucky 88 consequently gained enormous exposure within world racing circles.

Racing Victoria chief executive Bernard Saundry last week said although its solicitors were unlikely to pursue Lucky 88, its forensic experts would try to expose its authors.

Saundry said the claims were "absolute rubbish, total lies".

Moody said he usually ignored innuendo about his career, but this time he was tired of "grubs" who spread "crap".

"I'm just really disappointed that a public forum with what claims to be a wide readership can get away with making such outrageous claims against racing's governing body and its participants," Moody said.

"Whoever this grub is deserves to be tracked down and identified."

STORY SOURCE: MELBOURNE HERALD SUN - NEWS LIMITED.