Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sundees Sun has just won the Group 1 NZ National Trot. That’s no shock. The time is. This superstar square gaiter has just trotted 2700m in 3.16.3. That is exactly 4 seconds faster than he ran to win this race last year. He’s smashed the national record into tiny little pieces, broken it by an […]
Rickie Alchin – Sydney’s number 5 trainer – took four horses to Tamworth on Thursday night. All of them had metropolitan or provincial grade 1 race or trial form. They each started fave or near the top of the betting market. Every single one of the four went like busted arses, so bad that it […]
Remember Eve is an eight-year-old mare. She is also a cat. Her race record prior to yesterday read 55 starts, all at NSW country meetings, for zero wins. At her past ten starts the mare had started at an average price of $87.70 a race. Three weeks ago – ding, ding – Remember Eve changed […]
A crupper is a simple but essential piece of harness racing gear that prevents the saddle from slipping forward and keeps all the rest of the gear in place. They cost seventy bucks to buy. Trainer Charlie Chiang sent his pacer Barboo around at Redcliffe on Wednesday in one that was of such poor standard […]
So if the NSW Government doesn’t cough up the $800 million that it promised for the upgrade of Accor Stadium (formerly Stadium Australia), and now wants to renege on because the COVID-19 bill for vaccines that didn’t work is so big, then St Peter of V’landys is going to turn the NRL Grand Final into […]
I never watched Dr Who. It was too weird for me. People I knew did though, and they were forever talking about this time machine called the Tardis that was shaped like a telephone box with a police sign written on it. I always thought it was just part of the whacko sci-fi tale enjoyed […]
Divitiarum et pecuniae fructum non alium putabat quam profusionem, sordidos ac deparcos esse quibus impensarum ratio constaret, praelautos vereque magnificos qui abuterentur ac perderent The Roman Emperor Nero, telling we peasants that there is no other way of enjoying riches and money than by riotous extravagance, declaring that only stingy and niggardly fellows kept a […]
Under the trust deed that gives them the cheap land to sub-lease to Mike Symons and his friends so they can get richer and richer, the Melbourne Racing Club is required to provide open space facilities to the public on the Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. Things like outdoor recreational fitness facilities. BBQ and picnic facilities. Pedestrian […]
You’ve probably heard all about the Melbourne Racing Club’s plan to build a second track inside Caulfield, and seen the reaction from the trainers and jockeys about it. They are right of course. CEO of the MRC Josh Blanksby – have you ever heard a more perfect name? – reckons that the new track will […]
What a balls up this whole Caufield racecourse thing is, a shambles of epic proportions. We will tell you about it later. Right now we want to tell you about the great rock n roll Caulfield rort. Do you remember Mike Symons, the former Chairman of the Melbourne Racing Cluband owner of Aquanita Racing? The […]
