Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are rumors floating around in Queensland racing circles that a greyhound trainer in the south-east corner was yesterday caught live baiting. We don’t have the trainer’s name or the full details yet, but the whispers are very strong. One can only hope for the good of the game that it’s not true. Time we […]
For the second year in succession the Albion Park Harness Racing Club has posted an annual loss of circa three-quarters of a million dollars. It is not all the club management or committee’s fault. They have to a large degree kept spending under control by cutting back on discretionary items of expenditure such as marketing […]
Pink Scooter is a lowly rated 5-year-old pacer with a record of 51 starts for just 2 wins, the most recent of them coming at Dubbo in December last year. The horse has had 25 starts since then without troubling the judge, and his personal times in each of them were somewhat slow to say […]
There were lots 0f take-ways from Cup day. Here are just a few of them. 1 – Weight Stops Trains Over 2 Miles Joseph O’Brien’s Irish St Leger winner Al Riffa was all the hype coming into the Cup, with one punter – online casino operator and billionaire – Ed Craven, who made his money […]
Paul Tonkin (no relation to Clayton Tonkin) and Lindsay Rogers are Victorian harness trainers. Both men suffer from chronic pain from incurable back injuries, and each takes a heavy duty medication called Tapentadol to help alleviate the pain that they endure from dawn to dusk and all the time in between. Tonkin and Rogers each […]
Hope you followed our Melbourne Cup tips in the preview we published yesterday. From our total of six horses in the preview we gave you the 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The trifecta – which would have cost you $120 to box for a unit – paid over ten grand, so it was a pretty bloody […]
If Ben Melham hadn’t got their first we would marry Jamie right now. The First 4 on the Cup. Good on the reader who followed the picks from our preview and landed the prize. God bless Jamie Melham. And God bless Australia. What a lucky country it is indeed.
This magnificent beast in the picture is Parchment Party, the American dirt track stayer par excellence who has made the trek Down Under to try to lift our Cup. The Doc (nude tipster) rates his form big time, and has tipped him to win. Parchment Party certainly looks the part. You couldn’t ask to see […]
Are we some sort of backward neanderthals in racing, stuck in another century when men tipped their hats to ladies and called them madam, and ladies wore skirts down to their heels? We must be. Why else does Racing Australia put a Ms in front of every female rider and nothing in front of the […]
A trainer presenting a horse to race when not free of prohibited substances is what’s known as a strict liability offence. As far as guilt or innocence goes there is only the former if your horse throws a positive swab. Even if you can prove from the recordings made by your stable security cameras that […]
