Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Well it didn’t take long for the race loving sheilas of the Isa to tell me to stick my criticisms of their city up my arse. Shaz and Jac reckon Mt Isa is the go. My suspicion is that they’ve school age kids and are stuck, or that their hubby punts his pay before he […]
The picture above that you see of the bottle with the red cap was taken at the Woodend Beach, Christchurch stables of the training partnership of Robert and Jenna Dunn, the part of the operation managed by Dunn’s son John, aka Lurch. The obvious inference to be drawn is that Lurch is using this ‘herbal […]
John ‘Lurch’ Dunn, the man in charge of the Woodend Beach end of his family’s Diamond Racing operation, was in Auckland on Friday night driving Sundees Sun, the wonder trotter who broke the national record for 2700m by an unheard of clear 4 seconds (over 50 metres) in the NZ Trot. There only other runner […]
The horse on the outside gunning for the lead is trained by Steve Turnbull’s son Josh, and driven by another of his son’s Nathan. It is the $1.85 favourite. The horse breaks up after a few strides and loses all chance. It finishes second last. The one that wins the race is the second favourite. […]
Well I am buggered if I know why every good jockey in Australia doesn’t move to Mt Isa. After all, you get to ride 5 horse a week and earn a grand, live in the sort of suffocating heat that killed Burke and Wills, eat crap food and drink in pubs with bogans, live out […]
I see this Mark Jones has been training a few winners over in the NZ South Island lately. He’d want to wouldn’t he? After all, he’s got a fair bit of shame to wash off after losing his best horse Stylish Memphis to Turbo Trainor, both in Australia and abroad. It’s a shame that the […]
Before ….. The Christians reckon that the greatest gift of all is the atonement of Jesus Christ. That’s typical happy clapping nonsense spouted by do-gooders who don’t punt. Everyone with half a brain knows that the greatest gift is a gift wrapped couple of bottle of Menangle’s finest. Delivered by a bloke who feels guilty […]
There were four $52 000 Group 2 APG finals run at Albion Park on Saturday night. The QRIC Stewards only took pre-race swabs – blood samples – in two of them, and from only one horse in each. One of them was the $1.40 favourite in the 2YO Colts and Geldings classic, but the other […]
Zach Butcher has copped a lash here. Fair enough too. But what about the Stewards and the starter? Isn’t it their job to make sure that horses are in their right place? Mr Butcher admitted a charge in that he permitted his mare to start from the incorrect barrier position in Race 8. Mr Mulcay […]
Harness racing is a world unto it’s own. Tubby Peace was one of the greatest drug cheats in the history of equine sport. He robbed everyone – fellow trainers, racing authorities, punters, owners, the public, the lot. So what does industry do? Puts him in the Hall of Fame. It says more about harness racing […]
