Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie Don’t forget Phar Lap in Cup week 1930. On Derby Day (Saturday) he won the Melbourne Stakes over 2000m. On Tuesday he won the Melbourne Cup over 3200m. Oaks Day (Thursday) he won the Linlithgow Stakes over a mile. Then on the Saturday he won the C.B. Fisher Plate over 2400m. It’s a feat […]
During the week we tipped you Hello World to win the Birdsville Cup. We might have been a day early, because today on day 1 of the carnival it won the Akubra. The Akubra was a 1000m race. Tomorrow’s Cup is over a mile. Will trainer Kym Healy back him up, that is the burning […]
A couple of years ago we told you that junior trot driver Tasmyn Potter was a whizz kid and the next big thing. Today at Wagga the precocious young Potter proved us right. Six winners she drove. Six from seven, with a third in the other. What an incredible effort. And to make it even […]
Then face of evil – conman lawyer John Adams (pictured above) I know a number of people who were conned into investing their life savings in now dead lawyer John Adams mortgage investment fund. There were smart people not mugs. They trusted Adams, who was regarded as pillar of church, the legal profession and society, […]
How would you be being a race caller trying to call this horse in a close finish? No no no no no no no no!
I get that the QRIC are a bit short of starters at the moment with two of them suspended from duty in relation to the wrong horse affair, but really are things that desperate that it come to this? Neil Finnigan is the Chief Steward of Harness Racing, and gets paid somewhere in the vicinity […]
It has come to our attention that our story earlier this week about the Albion Park starters involved in the accidental ring-in affair was not quite right. The starters are stood down from duty on full pay, but not for 3 months. They are suspended from work while a disciplinary investigation process is undertaken, and […]
Western QLD racing identity Gary Peoples pictured) has been many things over his long career – bookmaker, Barcaldine Regional Councillor, former Mayor of Aramac (pop. 372), wagon driver, drover following in the footsteps of the bushranger Captain Starlight – but the one thing he hasn’t been in recent years is lucky at Birdsville. In fact […]
Cambridge as we know it is dead. The track still remains, but after this week’s votes to hand it and everything else except the unsecured debts over to Harness Racing New Zealand, the club that for so many years is gone, or survives as nothing but an asset-less shell anyway. Soon when the unsecured creditors […]
There are a lot of questions being asked about Blake Shinn’s ride on the beaten favorite Somethings Burnin’s in the second race at Sandown yesterday, and with very good reason to, because the jockey slaughtered it. This horse should have won by panels, and it was straight down to Shinn’s steer that it didn’t. Shinn […]
