Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see above is the race track yesterday at Bundaberg, with the photo taken by a reader who was there. The inside looks alright doesn’t it? In fact it looks a whole lot better than the middle and the outer. So how come no jockey all day wanted to go near it? That’s because […]
The 9-year-old English hurdler Constitution Hill has for 6 months now been touted as a genuine Melbourne Cup prospect, despite being old enough to vote and having only ever won a pair of Novice races on the flat. Sportsbet even had the audacity to post him up in their early markets as a $15.00 shot […]
Jockey Ryan Wiggins has been in more trouble than Flash Gordon for careless riding in recent weeks. He was very lucky to get away with this one at the Coast yesterday with only a reprimand. Wiggins is on the horse in the black silks with blue stars and hooped sleeves. The one that bores in […]
Has anyone been wondering why the once highly promising apprentice turned senior jockey Corey Bayliss hasn’t been riding lately. If this chap who appeared for sentence in the Ipswich District Court last week is the same person as he – not that we are asserting that it is – then we might just have the […]
A month or so back we tipped you off that a couple of trot drivers had been caught with prohibited substances in their systems after without notice drug testing was conducted at a Wagga race meeting. Drug Scandal Rocks the Riverina One of them was leading Riverina reinsman Blake Jones. The substance concerned was cocaine. […]
There is a somewhat interesting matter going before the QLD Racing Appeals Panel this week. It relates to the death of a racehorse named River Danzka in early 2025, and the reasons behind it. River Danzka was a slow 5-year-old gelding trained by former Mount Isa race club President Peter Inwood, and had been beaten […]
PRINCE NASEEM NZÂ Shortly after the start jumped an object on the track and breaking gait for a short distance no action was taken against the Gelding in this instance due to the multiple false starts. Inclined to hang in over the concluding stages of the event when placed under pressure. There were two false starts […]
On a weekend of rugby league where we have seen Jai Arrow chalk up his 100th and last NRL match, and Craig Bellamy almost certainly coach his last game, Motor Neurone Disease (MND)is firmly on the mind of most rugby league fans, even though most people don’t really know much about the condition or understand […]
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 […]
