Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Everyone in the thoroughbred and harness racing industries both in NZ and Australia knows that the greatest issue in either sport is the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED’s). Certain leading stables in both codes are implementing wholesale doping programs to gain an edge on their rivals, and it is making them millions of dollars […]
Why on earth would you hold the launch of Queensland’s gala trot race at an expensive inner city rooftop function space, when you have your a number of function venues of your own at the track that you have just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sprucing up, and hiring them out is part of […]
Puglsey from the Addams Family on the left, Albion Park CEO Scott Steele on the right (photo courtesy of the Albion Park Chairman).
The NSW breeding industry is the big winner from the announcement, with breeders given the incentive of $2250 for every live foal bred from a NSW-based mare and an Australian or New Zealand stallion based in the state. The breakdown of payments starts with $250 for a 42-day positive test for mares located in NSW, […]
JAZZY AWARD- Due to a clerical and administrative error the mare may not have been displayed as wearing blinkers, this is incorrect and the mare was to race in blinkers. This was advertised by way of oncourse announcement and social media address. JET SPINNER- Due to a clerical and administrative was displayed as wearing earmuffs […]
A few days back we said that PVL was playing the NSW Govt on a string over the NRL Grand Final, and his threats to take it away. Of course we were right. He’s not much of a Premier this bloke is he? If guts were garters his socks would be down around his ankles. […]
Oh dear. What sort of drive was this by Greg Sugars on the $1.35 favourite La Captain in the 8th race at Ballarat last night? It was all pretty early, with the Candy Man popping the 3’s on shot off the rail into the running line, and then shooting it around the field toward the […]
Tomorrow kicks off the double header picnic meeting for grass fed horses at Kooroorinya, population nil. The track is near Prairie, and just a short few hour run down the dirt road from Hughenden, known to locals as the big smoke. Most of the runners on the card are coming into the meeting off short […]
I know there are trainers out there who say that Eagle Farm is still too hard, and that it jars their horses up. Maybe that’s true, but this is Queensland and soft tracks are really only something that you should encounter when it rains, so if you can’t handle the hard send your horse down […]
The world famed Neighbours soapie is soon coming to an end. Let’s hope the spirit of the trots isn’t. This is how it used to be, and is some places like Knight Street, Redcliffe still is. They say Ellis Street is still hanging on too. That would be good. This is what the trots is […]
