Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The nominees for the 2021 Victorian Horse of the Year Awards have been announced. Let’s have a crack at picking the winners. 2YO pacing fillies: Amore Vita, Encipher, Irish Black Label Three very good fillies here, and it is a raffle. Encipher beat Amore Vita in the Breeders Crown. Amore Vita beat her in the Vicbred […]
Hello Sailor. He reminds you a bit of Rock Hudson this bloke doesn’t he? Brae Sokolski imagines himself to be the smartest man in racing, and given his incredible record of success since emerging out of nowhere six years ago to become the most successful owner in Australia, you can understand why. The thing is […]
The poor old Shoemaker has hit the wall since his great big ratings selected win on the one out multi and quaddie at Albany in West Australia on a Sunday afternoon a fortnight ago. After getting slaughtered last weekend he announced that he was taking a break from the rigours of being a punting legend, […]
Metro trainers premiership 2015/16 Seven years ago gallops trainer John Zielke was riding the crest of a wave, and enjoying a run of success that delivered the former security guard a million dollars in stake earnings in a single season. Zielke followed that magical 2015/16 run with seasons in which he earned more than half […]
Think I’m going down to the well tonight And I’m going to drink till I get my fill And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it But I probably will Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture A little of the glory of, well time slips away And leaves […]
With less than three months left of the season, and all of the rich 2YO races gone except the few up here, there is only one first year sire with progeny topping the million dollar mark (Russian Revolution), and just one other (The Mission) who looks a bolters chance of joining him. At this stage […]
Brisbane’s Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub may have been torched as retribution for its links to an illegal heroin trade by a competing Sydney drug operation backed by corrupt cops including Roger Rogerson, a court has heard. An immigration investigator says he took the unusual step of “coming out of the shadows” to warn police […]
The Brisbane jockey’s premiership looks a whole lot different now than it did a couple of months ago when we last wrote about it. James Orman’s golden run of success has seen him leapfrog Jim Byrne and Ryan Maloney, and now he sits 4 wins ahead on 58 1/2, with Byrne second 4 wins astern […]
The Whiskey Au Go Go manslaughters – people slaughters, not murders, for the homicide wasn’t intentional – ended with 15 people dying. It wasn’t meant to be like that. The building was just supposed to burn down. But a few fuck-ups fucked up, and the flames flew up, and the doors were locked, and there […]
We got it wrong in the Gallen fight. Sort of anyway. Kris Terzievski isn’t much good, we were right about that. Gallen can take a whole lot of punishment, we were right about that too. But we forgot that he punches like a fairy. How stupid of us. The two free cheap shots he took […]
