Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Shape Shifter – A term used in literature to describe a duplicitous character who changes their behavior or loyalties depending on the situation. This is race 4 at Albion Park on Saturday night. It is the odds on favorite, and has been backed from $2.30 into $1.85. The 7 Golden Fire has blown out from […]
Shape Shifter – A term used in literature to describe a duplicitous character who changes their behavior or loyalties depending on the situation. Grimson does it again. We are at Albion Park race 7 now. Grimson drives the leader Our Sunset Delight. Peter ‘Noddy’ McMullen is behind him on the fence about Rakasandy. The same […]
What I have reproduced below is a missive from Gary Chittick about the Project Stamina team report and recommendations for the reform of New Zealand racing. Like most things that Chittick writes, it is well worth a read. ————————————- It would appear I now have to continue my weekly Corner with the amount of rumblings at the […]
JD Hayes and Dakotah Keane, pictured above at last night’s Victorian Racing Awards I am a bit confused. I’m quite sure that I saw jockey Dakotah Keane out one night arm in arm with one of the Hayes boys when I was down on one my regular racing trips to Melbourne, not sure which, or […]
Number 11 in the red colors breaks down horribly in this race at Kembla Grange yesterday. It suffered a catastrophic bilateral sesamoid fracture and had to be euthanised, or put down or killed. We are not telling you this to sicken you, or because we get a thrill out of the horrific or grotesque. The […]
$3.50 Kim Daly $4.00 Wade Birch $5.00 Reid Sanders $5.50 REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS (BUT AN INTEGRITY CHIEF FROM NSW IN A NON-GALLOPS CODE) $6.00 Terry Bailey $7.00 Catherine Clark $8.00 Josh Adams $8.00 Mary Collier $10.00 Marc Van Gestel $11.00 A Former Corporate Bookmaker $12.00 A Copper, Any Copper $14.00 Another Woman, Any Woman […]
Breeders in the trots have become obsessed with constantly introducing new foreign – almost exclusively US – lines into our standardbred families. Year after year stallions who couldn’t make it in America are brought out here – or their semen is – and touted as the next best thing, the new Bettors Delight or Art […]
Take a look at race 4 at Gloucester Park last night and keep your eye on Chris Voak, the driver of number 1 Maximum Rock. Have you ever seen anything like this before? The gear malfunctioned, and no matter what Voak tried to do he couldn’t rectify the situation. Maximum Rock lost 5th place on […]
Above is the head on view of the interference suffered by the second placed horse Run Like A Girl as a consequence of the leader Queen Olympia abruptly and dramatically shifting out passing the 100m mark in race 4 at Eagle Farm, that led to Ceejay Graham lodging a protect against the winner. Below is […]
I would have bet my life and my wife that the protest in race 4 at Eagle Farm would have been upheld. If I had I wouldn’t be here to write about it, and Maggie would be someone else’s sex slave (lucky them). How the hell did they dismiss that one? The leader veered straight […]
