Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The malicious campaign against SA trot trainer Lane Johnson has begun again. What has this bloke done? And who has he done it to? We have some idea, or at least we know what we have been told. If it was us we wouldn’t be painting things on walls. we would be dealing with it […]
The Tuaman with our nephews at the Fight For Life that he got us front row tickets to. I was taking the picture. Maggie’s cousin David Tua is one of the funniest blokes you will ever meet in your life. When we lived over there near him and his Mum he used to drive around […]
This is an excerpt from Gerald Murnane AO’s wonderful book Something For The Pain. The very last chapter is titled, Lord Pilate and Bill Coffey. You can almost feel the pain. They don’t write like this anymore. Gerald talks about Bill Coffey a timber worker from New Zealand with a love for training a small […]
As Archie has told you it’s my Nude Tips 1 year anniversary this Saturday and it’s been a wild and hugely enjoyable rollercoaster ride. I’ve picked this week’s photo in honor of my Viking ancestors, me going as hard as I can for the punters for 52 consecutive weeks of The Battle. I’ve won (editor’s […]
It has been a year tomorrow since Dr Georgia Whiting began sharing her Nude Tips with readers, and what a rollicking – and highly profitable – 12 month ride it has been. Who could ever forget Dr Whiting giving us 6 winners in a row, the Quaddie and the Big Six one out with her […]
Based on how the last race at Mackay was run yesterday you would have to suspect that the winner Red Hot Lizzie is the best named horse in history, because this race sure did look red hot. Lizzie is trained by former trot driver Lachie Manzelmann. Manzelmann had four of the eleven runners in the […]
We’ve been telling you forever that the 4YO Kiwi pacer Marketplace is superstar. Tomorrow night at 6.25pm at Menangle you will get to see that I am right. Marketplace makes his Australian debut in a Free For All at the track in one of his two tune up runs on the way to Queensland where […]
New Zealand’s pre-eminent racing writer Mick Guerin has suggested in a recent article in the NZ Herald that the current review body for the racing industry – dubbed Project Stamina – will be recommending the shut down of racing at Alexandra Park. To further complicate matters, the funding stoush comes as racing bosses await the […]
In most racing jurisdictions in the world highly paid leadership roles carrying six-figure salaries are widely advertised and attract highly competitive merit based selections. But not in New Zealand it seems. Over in the Shakey Isles it appears that it’s not what you know, but rather who you know. Recently departed Harness Racing NZ CEO […]
Sydney’s leading trot trainer Jason Grimson has a very busy long and highly unusual couple of days ahead of him. First today he makes the 11 hour drive from Menangle or 2 hour plane flight from Mascor (cost circa $500) to Mildura our near the South Australian border to take just one drive tonight, that […]
