Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Short odds arent my go, and I usually turn up my nose at them. But when your bookie offers you $1.45 about a $1.09 shot you’d be an idiot not to take it. Anyone who doesn’t bet with Neds is a fool. Fire And Passion won of course. The banks never pay that good.
Testatot Silence is a nine-year-old gelding, the sort of horse than animal welfare style rules were implemented to proect. They don’t seem to be working. This aged horse got beaten 16.53 lengths at Emerald the last start that he raced, for no seemingly good reason at all. Stewards slapped a bar on him, decreeing that […]
Beiwacht is an absolute prick of a horse. Let him sit on the pace and dictate it he can win anything, but make him do a bit of work and he is as weak as piss. They reckon he is a future super stallion. I wouldnt send my Group 1 quality mare to this son […]
Australia’s favorite punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley was at the Bigara picnic meeting today, somewhere in the south of the Northern Rivers in the middle of nowhere. He proudly declared it the last peak of the myriad of mountains he has climbed to attend the races at every gallops track in NSW, which is a monumental […]
How does a horse that was late scratched at the barrier run in a race? You tell me. I always though scratched meant pulled out, and if a horse than ran was declared a non-runner it was called as such. Guess I was wrong. I had ten each way Giddy Gan’s Joy in race 2 […]
The last race at Gundagai on Saturday. Iroquai. $27.00 into $5.50. It had only snuck into the race as the third emergency, and on paper it’s form looked shit. But it came up mud today at the right distance, and at the right distance Iroquai – like a duck – swims. He did here. Boom! […]
Racing QLD decided on Friday, out of concern about predicted afternoon thunderstorms, to bring the start time for Doomben forward by two races, so that the first would kick off at 11.05 am rather than just after lunch. https://www.racingqueensland.com.au/news/2026/11-november/race-program-changes-saturday-november-14 I just wonder if anyoneremembered to tell the ambos? When they are booked on private assignments […]
Hi Archie I know I’m becoming a grumpy old man (too late – already there!) but a couple of things in Harness Racing are pissing me off bigtime! I’m so over owners, trainers and scribes telling us that and I quote “You’ve got to remember that she’s Captains Mistress) still only a four year old […]
Izzy A Warrior won race 2 at Gundagai. Given the sadness of the past week, what other horse could. The angels are singing. God bless the poor kid. And may peace be upon her family.
As predicted, all bar four of Tanya Perry’s horses in each race were late scratched by order of the Stewards for want of a suitable rider. It will be interesting to see what the Stewards say about Parry’s apparent refusal to put David Sparks on an additional one of her runners in each race, which […]
