The Toughest Beat in the World
Saintly Rose was backed from $15 into $10 in the third at Terang today. She was home at the 100m mark. And then this happened. Is it any wonder that all horse players die broke?
The Management of the New COVID Regulations at the Races is a Train Wreck
Well hasn’t it been a hell of a weekend in the COVID Vax Stakes at the tracks around Queensland? We’ve had the State’s leading race caller out of the box (the good news on that front is that the reports are that Josh Fleming is getting the jab this week), we’ve had some jockeys allowed […]
Tumby Park Cracks the Ton
Lost amid all the excitement of the ID21 series and its aftermath is a landmark achievement by leading harness race owners Scott Whitton and Jodie Foster, the couple who race their horses under the Tumby Park banner and predominantly My Ultimate names. The victory of My Ultimate Lizzy at Newcastle night was Tumby Park’s 100th […]
Harness Racing in South Australia is Falling in a Hole – And Participants Are Being Led Down One
A fortnight ago the new CEO of Harness Racing South Australia Mr Dean Elliott made a huge announcement about the future of the sport in the State. It’s rooted. Of course that is not what the CEO said, but why would you listen to a bloke who tries to tell you that cutting the prize […]
What the Hell Happened to Copy That in the Cranbourne Cup?
The big shock of the harness racing weekend was what seemed to be the terribly poor run of the New Zealand Cup hero Copy That in the Cranbourne Cup, a race in which New Zealand’s best pacer performed like mule, dropping out to run a conspicuous 36m last after what you would have to say […]
Why the Greens are Absolute Dickheads
So this is the Greens plan. Shut down racing. Turn all race courses into parks. Rehabilitate all race horses. (From what? Are they meth heads, junkies, drunks or sex addicts? Even the geldings?) Rehome all the horses who have been to rehab. Retrain: jockeyswork riders stable hands strappers stewards starters swabbies barrier attendants clerks of […]
Gee it Was Hot in Brisbane Last Night – And It’s Just Getting Hotter by the Hour
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
The Bell Tolls For Alligator Blood – It Was Fun While it Lasted, Drugs Always Are – But Things Never End Well.
I think we might have seen the last Alligator Blood, or if all was fair in love, war and racing we should have anyway. The Alligator was terrible in the listed Loch Neagh today, absolutely atrocious. Baylee Nothdurft gave him a great run on the leaders back, and for about a tenth of a second […]
Exclusive- Is Josh Fleming’s Race Calling Career Over?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1467574377516613636 The mail is very, very strong that Brisbane race caller Josh Fleming is not vaccinated against COVID-19 and refuses to be. It is clear from her Facebook postings that Fleming’s wife Gabrielle is stridently anti-vax, regarding the compulsory nature of the requirement as akin to totalitarianism or nazism. I am not quite sure how […]
Around the Grounds
QCAT CLEARS DAY – GOODNIGHT SOON TO FOLLOW The decision has not been published yet, but the hot mail is that in yet another outstanding demonstration of why it is being giving the big P.O., the QCAT has overturned Nathan ‘Grubby’ Day;s six week suspension for pulling up Helsun at Doomben in January almost two […]