Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Like all the horses with the title, Illawong Stardust was named by the great harness racing man Dr Martin Hartnett, who sadly and quite unexpectedly took a trip last year to the great trot track in the sky, where he will be stands tomorrow night watching down as the 4-year-old mare owned by his beloved […]
Besides the garden wall, when stars are bright The ID trophy is in my arms The nightingale Tells his fairytale Of paradise, where roses grew, and Markovina flew. I dream it and the dream is plain In my kick all the cash will remain My Illawong Stardust melody The memory of a 100-1 ID21 winners […]
Humbletonian race day is supposed to be a celebration of the little Aussie battlers who love the trots. It is a satire of the great American million dollar Group 1 classic the Hambletonian, named after Hambletonian 10, the father of the modern trotter and pacer, and won over its 98 year history by such luminaries […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HkU_Vz4qGs&t=25s Proving that some Millenials do in fact enjoy oppression, Generation Y member Arnie Koscho (25) has gone the whole hog and put a Wests Tigers bumper sticker on the rear of his Toyota Corolla. “Got a good deal on it,” lied Koscho. “Seven thousand dollars at only 200,000 kilometres.” At the time of writing, […]
What an absolute joke. Security couldn’t do their job, so Sam did it for them. She should have got a bloody medal. Instead she copped a yellow card. The ref Sara Persson is a Swede. They were fence sitters in the war ,and got that one wrong too. Our Sammy would have knocked over Hitler […]
Australia is the greatest country on earth. It goes without saying. You don’t see Australians piling on to leaky boats to do anywhere else do you? Nowhere other than around the world like Jessica Watson did at 16 to become the youngest kid ever to circumnavigate the globe. She came straight back of course. When […]
Sam Kerr is one of the greatest soccer players that Australia has ever seen. She is without any doubt one of the best land-based Aussie athletes of the 21st century. And due to this one simple act, at age less than thirty already an absolute ANZAC legend. I wouldn’t mind Sam marrying my daughter. Or […]
Weight has been the curse of many a great jockey since the days of Phar La’s rider Jim Pike. Normal people look at the scales in the bathroom and turn their heads and walk the other way. Jockeys step on them ten times a day, every day, and twenty or thirty times when they are […]
I don’t know how trainer Troy Williams – Twilliams – does it. You know the story about Idle Hands, he’s the old walker who had won one race from his past 100 starts when he joined the Twilliams stable at age 11 and 3/4, immediately won 3 in a row, and has won 4 of […]
Trying to understand how any highly paid web designer could come up with the idea of creating a scrambled egg of website like Racing Queensland’s is a huge struggle. No, it’s impossible. What brain surgeon of the IT world could possibly look on at the RQ site and proudly pronounce to world “I did this? […]
