Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well my mate Marvellous Mervyn is a very well known and highly successful harness and race horse owner who presently has a champion of one code and a prospective champion in another in his stable, and his spring carnival this year is looking good, most promising indeed. This bloke is a lovely chap and an […]
Most readers are by now familiar with the world famous film The Yoyo, an autobiographical thriller about life on the punt, written, directed by and starring Melbourne Mick. Mick is the world’s second worst punter (behind me). Unlike Marvellous Merv he can tip a winner – in fact sometimes he even tips seven or eight […]
Errata means error. The Crown Prosecutor themselves raised the issue with the Judge as to what to about them. It was agreed that minor errors – spelling errors, etc like the example that the prosecutor gave below – would be simply corrected. CROWN PROSECUTOR: Sometimes when ‑ I’ve already failed at least once to not […]
The Crown alleges that on or about 8 January 1982 the accused, alone or with the involvement of another person or persons, murdered Lynette Dawson. Then, or later, the accused possibly with assistance disposed of her body at an unknown location. The Crown puts its case against the accused that he was motivated to kill his […]
Adrian Layt is a Queensland based jockey whose official riding weight is registered as 56.5kg. Layt hasn’t ridden under 55kg (plus 1kg gear allowance) for donkey’s years. Yesterday at Townsville he was permitted to ride a horse in race 4 named Riverside Special. It was weighted at 54kg. A. Layt was never a hope of […]
Do you remember me telling you a couple of months back that the QRIC and it’s long-time Chief Vet Dr Martin Lenz would soon be parting ways? Well, I guess we were right. What a surprise hey? You always read it first here. Dr Martin Lenz to Leave the QRIC
These are the results of the APG Mixed Online Sale held last week. Every one of the 14 trotters and pacers in the catalogue are being sold by APG as vendor. Each of them – all 14 – was purchased by the APG as agent. WTF? Agents for whom? Were these really genuine sales, or […]
Poly tracks are poly tracks. They don’t get rated on the usual scale of good to heavy, because they have no soil or turf. What they are is what they are, which is sand, wax and fibre. This is what the manufacturer Michael Collins says about them: Polytrack is scientifically proven to minimise the risk […]
This one’s from a reader who has trained more than a few Group 1 winners in his time. I have a feeling he’s talking about the TAB ….
We are all formed as adults from our experiences as a child, but even more – consciously or unconsciously – from our deeper family experiences long, long before. For each of us the marker poles and the touchstones are different. One of mine is being a victim of child abuse – rape really, even though […]
