Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
To understand the next story we ask that you first watch this replay of the Clifton Cup yesterday provided by Racing Queensland and its broadcast vision partner On The Bit Pty Ltd. All will be explained in the next story. Well as much as we can find out anyway.
The whispers out of Victoria are that a formerly widely liked, respected and defended trot driver may be in more trouble than Flash Gordon, and it has nothing to do with giving up easy leads, hooking horses or having bets. People don’t realise the dreadfully powerful pull of the punt that compels pulsies (compulsive gamblers) […]
The Queensland harness Breeders, Owners, Trainers, (and) Reinspersons Association was once a lively and active representative body that advocated strongly on issues affecting the industry. Today it appears to have all but disappeared off the map. BOTRA has not released any news at all on its website for three years. No information is provided on […]
What an abject failure The Bondi is. PVL aced Melbourne with The Everest – that is obvious by the rapid decline in quality of the field in the Manikato, a race in urgent need of repair – but he has overstretched his hand completely with this million dollar balls up. The winner Hilal is a […]
Last night in the Geelong Cup, for the second week in a row, the multiple Group 1 winning US owned Kiwi mare Amazing Dream led and got beaten in a race that she should have won. The week before in the VIC Cup she led in a first half of 58 seconds, which isn’t too […]
Everyone in the world except for Grant Dixon knows that unless he is coming from the back off an electric early pace, Colt Thirty One cannot run faster than 55 seconds for his last half mile. It is patently obvious, and clearly borne out by the Colt’s 90 career start race record. Without going back […]
Sometimes when I see what the Stewards get all worked up about I begin to wonder whether I am living in a parallel universe or something. Take race 3 at Albion Park last night for example. Grant Dixon is driving the favourite Beast Mode, drawn the 1. Obviously from that draw he either wants to […]
The benefit of hindsight is a wonderful thing isn’t it? Apprentice Adin Thompson rides a great tactical race on the 20-1 rank outsider and almost pulls off a dashing win, getting nutted in only the very last couple of strides. The Stewards – none of whom have ever ridden a race in their lives – […]
So the Stewards arrive at the non-TAB QLD race meeting at Clifton, and discover that the track has a hole in it near the crossing at the 1400m mark that nobody seems to have noticed before. A couple of blokes grab shovels and fill them in with some loose dirt they dig up from the […]
