Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Story by Phil Purser Please be advised that Gitana, the widow of Dan Costello, has advised that a memorial service for her late husband Dan will be held at Albion Park on Sunday 30 August at 2pm. As an aside, Gitana is meeting with me on Wednesday of this week, so that we can work […]
The great untold story of last year’s QLD Provincial Trainer’s Premiership is how close Mark ‘Boof’ Currie came to winning it, and how far he would have won by had he not broken down four months out from the end of the season. You can see the final results in the picture at the top. […]
Riverina trainer Norm Diebert Snr must have achieved some sort of record as the oldest trainer ever to have a horse throw a positive to cobalt, after the substance above the threshold of 100 micrograms per litre in urine was detected in the urine sample taken from his pacer CHANCETOWIN following its win in race […]
QLD provincial rider Peta Edwards got a bit carried away with the ship in race 6 at the Cairns Amateur meeting on the weekend. She hit her horse 8 times prior to the 100m mark – 5 strikes is the maximum allowed – and 24 times in total, nine strikes above the limit of fifteen. […]
We told you the story last week about how the trotter The Vicars Girl had thrown a positive swab during without notice out of competition testing conducted by Stewards at trainer Kevin Weidenbach’s stables. That matter is yet to be dealt with, presumably because the officials are waiting for a confirmatory second test result, so […]
Back in April we told you the story of Jace McMurray’s bad behavior toward race day officials, after an incident in which he threw his saddle at the Clerk of the Scales after failing to make the weight for a mount. It’s a Game of Grams Professional Race Riding – But It’s No Excuse For […]
The Emma Stewart of Sydney harness racing Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson had a huge night out at Menangle yesterday winning all four races his stable contested, and driving three of them too. Unusually most of Grimson’s winners were at big odds. $13.00, $11.00, $6.50 and $1.33 they started. Their were some very weird runs by some […]
Transplanted Irish jockey did nothing for the cause of ending jokes about his countrymen by his ride on Romans Luck in the 7th race at Morphettville today. It was a joke. For some reason Murtagh got it into his head that because all the winners on the day had been moving to the outside in […]
Standardbred yearling auction house APG has been beset by problems on all sides in recent times. Stood down CEO, resigned board members, money problems leading the to abandonment of live sales, and a strong and ever surging competitor in Nutrien have left APG badly in need of a win. It didn’t get it from last […]
The last time I saw the bloke in the picture working a stand at Gympie was in the late 1970’s. Here we are almost 50 years later at the Muster Cup and he is still at it. The only thing different are the wrinkles and the colour of the hair. And the fact that he […]
