Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
About 40 odd years ago Dr Geoff Chapman has to change the name of one of his horses from Merkin to Merkin was very cleverly named, which is no surprise because the Doc is a very clever bloke. A Merkin is a pubic hair wig once favoured by ladies of the night who would shave […]
There is a huge problem in regional Queensland with the current shortage of jockeys. Everyone knows it, but no-one wants to fix it, or alternatively they don’t know how. Only 6 jockeys turned up to ride at the Mt Isa meeting yesterday. As a result 6 horses on the 6 race card had to be […]
Stanley Road wearing the yellow rug is a renowned slow beginner and very fast finisher. When he got to 3rd on the turn in last night’s $100 000 Top Gun at the Meadows and started powering Stanley looked home to the world. Until he made a very, very bad mistake. The 28.7kg Stanley bumped into […]
After a long, self-enforced absence from the race track during which he is believed to have worked out in the mines, and a period of mourning following the loss of his Dad, jockey Michael Murphy is back in the saddle. Not quite with a bang yet – Murphy has had five rides in then past […]
Alex Ashwood at 34.8% has the best winning strike rate of any trainer in Victoria, better than Emma Stewart, better than David Aiken, better than Andy Gath, better than Anthony Butt and Sonia Smith, better than anyone at all. In fact Ashwood’s win rate is so impressive that he would damn near be a certainty […]
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Line Up was very plain at Menangle. Some fair judges I know were talking this dual Derby winner up as an Inter Dominion chance only a week or two ago. I hope they didn’t back him pre-post in the all in market, for on the strength (or more correctly, weakness) of this run I reckon that if […]
I have enormous respect for Chris Barsby. He is an excellent and always entertaining caller, and a brilliant judge of a photo finish, alongside Perth caller Richard Bell as the best in the land in any code. But even people who are top of the tree sometimes get it wrong, and by describing Mach Da […]
The Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf may have followed the centerpiece Juvenile on the Del Mar card, but it provided more than enough drama to cap off the first day of the 2021 Breeders’ Cup. Modern Games (IRE) was the winner of the race while running for purse money only, while Tiz The Bomb […]
