Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This above is the Murwillimbah race track. Poor bastards. This below is Robert Heathcoate’s stable in Brisbane. Two more inches and we would have been talking catastrophe. Bloody hell. Thank God it didn’t rain another drop. PS – It is worth noting that both tracks have their horseshoe’s upside down. My grandmother always said it […]
Trot trainer Tony Peacock used to be in the top ten in the world back in his fighting days. Most of us weren’t born then. Lester Ellis was five times the world champion. Ellis never got the kudos he deserved, because he fought in the golden Fenech era, and the Marrickville Mauler got all the […]
International Women’s Day is a wonderful thing. For years my wife Maggie was on the organising committee, and my youngest daughter is today involved. IWD is all about ending discrimination, and have a gender equal world. Hear hear! The Cairns Jockey Club are celebrating the day by giving women free entry to the track. Men […]
The integrity of Queensland racing has been questionable for a long time. Strange decisions are being made by Stewards. Swabs are rarer than a Penny Black stamp. Even stranger things are being ignored. Just when you thought the huge concerns couldn’t become any deeper, yesterday at the Sunshine Coast they did. Watch the replay […]
In a timely move that is to be commended, Racing Queensland has opened up the purse strings to provide gallops, harness and greyhound trainers with a one-off payment to help them through the clean ups and repairs from last week’s floods. Harness and gallops trainers with 1-6 horses in work are eligible for a $350 […]
Kevin Seymour AM is a man loved and loathed in equal parts, for reasons known mainly to those who have an opinion. I do, but it is somewhere to the right of the medal. I like Mr Seymour, I like him a lot. We are diametrical opposites, and met as foes not friends, but it […]
Really? No precedent cases? I did a simple Google search, and I came up with 10 pages of them. This is nonsense. So is the notion that the race day Stewards have no responsibility for the right horses racing as themselves in the right races. That is absolute baloney. Making sure that there are no […]
Have a goddamn look at this. And try not to vomit. It is the Launceston trots on the 13th of February, and this is the feature race, the $20 000 Sinbad Bay Final. Todd Rattray – the driver of the leader Magician, in the red and white – has taken his foot out of the […]
The head on vision from the Launceston trots on the 13th of February 2022 is there on the Tasracing website. It is there for race 5 too. But it has mysteriously disappeared for race 4. The race in which a horse named Magician was backed to win more than $10 000. One and the same […]
Corporate bookmakers pay out on first past the post. They apply what is known as a protest payout, which means if a protest is lodged you get paid either way, whether it is upheld or dismissed. Mark Yole, the driver of the horse that got booted in the guts by Todd Rattray and fell, somehow […]
