Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Seriously concerning reports are emerging out of Wagga suggesting that Greg Gangle (pictured), the CEO of the Riverina Paceway, has been stood down from attending the next six race meetings held at the track because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. The word is that Gangle, a self-described ‘real estate investor and entrepreneur’ who arrived […]
On the 8th of October this year the racehorse Jimmy Neutron, a classical nonnie that has had 32 starts for no wins, was barred from racing for three months after bleeding in a midweek race at Doomben two days before. That meant that the galloper would not be seen again at the racetrack until the […]
I have written of my admiration for the skills of NSW trot trainer Troy Williams before. On Tuesday at Menangle the master trainer Williams impressed me even more. Manly Mach used to be a cat, much like the footy team that is named after. Aaron Bain couldn’t get it going in Adelaide, Ben Yole wouldn’t […]
I have very bad news for Bonno. No, it is not the definition of his nickname in the Urban Dictionary, although it is not one that I’d want. The bad news is not that Beyonce doesn’t wail either. It is that she never wailed, sang, whispered or said ‘girls, they run the world’. What she […]
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” ― P.T. Barnum So this Baluch bloke is Australia’s most wanted. Everyone is talking about him being granted bail by a goose, he’s escaped and is on the loose, and every police force in the country wants to lassoe him with a noose. The problem is that none of them […]
About three days ago Racing Victoria announced its new ‘Million dollar Summer of Speed series’. A month before it begins. How do you prep a sprinter for a series that kicks off in just 4 weeks time? It would be a good trick, wouldn’t it? These races are rubbish, and it is not even really […]
What on earth would possess any sane racing authority enough to convince them that transferring the Underwood Stakes at Caulfield to Sandown, and then moving the Sandown Cup, Guineas and Zipping Classic (formerly the Eclipse Stakes) to Caulfield and moving it back a fortnight while keeping the same now totally inappropriate names was a good […]
This afternoon I was contacted by a harness racing identity who wanted to alert me to the fact that Petes Said So – the heavily backed winner of the last race at Menangle on Tuesday ($4.60 into $3) – had run a near full second than it ever had before, and that the horse been […]
If the winner of the 12th race at Addington on Cup Day wasn’t chemically assisted, then Francesca Cumani is without doubt the ugliest woman that I have ever seen, and Rachel Hunter runs a close second. No Time Like Now is the horse’s name. It started at a price of $40, and won by almost […]
The Chairman of Racing Victoria Brian Kruger has declared war on Peter V’Landys. It is the greatest misjudgement since Hitler decided to fight the war on two fronts by taking on Stalin. Kruger has laid down the law. Either PVL comes to the party, or NSW gets frozen out. In Kruger’s fantasy being frozen outs […]
