Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The half million dollar On The Bit Racing debacle continues apace. Despite the recently privatised outfit’s awful track record, and the decision of Racing Queensland to put its contract out for wide open tender, nothing has improved when it comes to OTBR’s highly paid but horrendously poor coverage of bush racing in the Sunshine State. […]
Stewards considered the serious consequences of the shift from MAGICIAN, that being that the interference to MAYLEEJAE EAGLE which resulted in the gelding falling clearly prejudiced its chances and therefore invoked AHRR 66(g), the pertinent part of the rule being that a horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a lower finishing […]
In a week when Russia quite rightly became the scourge of the world, it was perhaps fitting that a sprinter named after the land of putrid Putin’s favourite aerial freestyle skier copped the worst run in transit since the Titanic and met a similar fate. Smirnova was the galloper’s name, and the smart 3YO filly […]
Alliteration is a stylistic device employed by writers and poets to press a point. I just used it. It’s when you string words together with the same consonant to make a machine gun sort of sound when you read it. See, I did it again, twice. Poets to press a point. Make a machine gun […]
Once upon a time innocent trainers like Darrel Graham and our man Moods used to get tipped out for long periods of time for throwing positive swabs to cobalt salts. It was a travesty of justice, and it was only through the big man’s outspoken criticism of the stewarding practice and Daz’s determined legal resistance […]
MENANGLE Race 2 Alta Orlando resumes in this from a short a break after running third in ID21. He is a high class pacer who begins quickly and should find the lead despite the wide draw. If he does he will be incredibly hard to beat here. We all expected Krug to be in the […]
Have you read Ben Dorries hastily written personal remembrance of Shane Warne? It’s bloody disgraceful. Dorries is disrespectful to Hookesy, who died in terrible circumstances, and he makes Warnie sound like a wanker too, which he most decidedly wasn’t, and even if he was the man is a legend and he is dead and it’s […]
Last year Ryan Duffy copped a 12 month DQ from the Victoria Racing Tribunal helping his mate milkshake a horse, taking the bolt when the Stewards turned up and caught them in the act, and lying through his teeth about the whole thing. He deserved the DQ too. The RV Stewards thought Duffy deserved more, […]
Today’s meeting scheduled for the Gold Coast has been moved to the dreaded and dreadful poly track at the Sunshine Coast. There are 8 races on the card. And 53 scratchings. That’s what we call a track that trainers want to race on. Others call it a $10 million white elephant.
Comeback jockey Michael Murphy has been given a million chances by just about everybody in racing. After yesterday I have come to the conclusion that he doesn’t deserve any. Murphy was riding the horse in the white colours behind the leader in the 6th at Rockhampton yesterday. A gap opened up between the two horses […]
