Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
August 28, 2026 The Northern Queensland Winter Racing Carnival will go to another level in 2027, with a boost in prizemoney to see almost $3.5 million go up for grabs over two thrilling months of racing. All four major Cups races held across Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns will now be run for $200,000 each, an […]
Daniel Ganderton rode at Devonport on Wednesday. Two later later he was appearing in he criminal court in the same city on two separate matters dating back to 2023 and 2024. What are the charges? Why has Ganderton been allowed to continue riding while on bail? I don’t know the answers to either of those […]
The jockey formerly known as Terry Treichel has beaten the odds and will return to the saddle at Taree on Monday. Now going by his new legal name Daniel Jack Smith, the jockey who was disqualified between 2020 and 2026 by Northern Territory Stewards after pleading guilty to thirty rule breach charges related to betting […]
The picture you see in an excerpt from yesterday’s daily law list for the Beenleigh Magistrates Court. See the name in the box? Perran Sonnex? It’s a quite unusual and rather distinctive name isn’t it? A bloke named Perran Sonnex is the Executive General Manager of Licensed Community Venues at the Brisbane Racing Club (BRC), […]
Luke Tarrant had the criminal indictment against him presented yesterday in the District Court. That means his armed robbery and/or other charges are starting to move quicker to a finale. The question most are asking is whether the one time star apprentice will nod his head to the charges and cop a reduction of his […]
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Copy That was a great racehorse. You don’t win races like he did, including dual NZ Cups, unless you are. But he wasn’t quite sound, and I reckon that worries broodmare owners, because as a sire Copy That is off to a very slow start. Even at the then bargain basement fee of $4600 (now […]
We’ve just got news that a prominent Riverina trot driver has been outed for either 3 or 6 months – I can’t remember because the knockout drugs I got at the take it and swallow party at the hospital today are still in my system, and they cause temporary amnesia – after they threw a […]
I am sure you remember the story about the three licensees who got suspended for 3 months each for accidentally presenting the wrong horse to run at Albion Park a couple of months ago, and then not telling the Stewards about their mistake after they found out. Those blokes – Ricky Gordon, Warren Hinze and […]
Father Wayne, Maggie’s Catholic priest mate from when they were young who is staying with us for a few weeks, and although we are a bit different – he says Grace, and Jeff Buckley and I sing it (I know all the lyrics because it was Archie n Maggie’s shag song when we first met) […]
