Umm …. Really?
How the hell did former Albion Park and APG Gold committee man Trevor Reilly get away with registering this name? Say it out loud. Gee I wonder what he’s pushing up the hill?
Shane Loone Gets Disbelieved – Gee I Wonder Why?
Shane Loone is the South Australian trot trainer whose horses were switched in races at Globe Derby last month, although he got sprung before the planned plunge one could run. You remember Loone. He’s the bloke who said that he wasn’t at the track on ring-in night for more than a few minutes until he […]
How Good is Yankee Rose’s Daughter? – I Wonder if She Will Win QLD Filly of the Year Too?
￥226,800,000 (🇦🇺$2.8mil) Select Sale 2019 purchase 2yo filly 2. ROMNEYA (Deep Impact x Yankee Rose 🇦🇺 (All American)) won the 1600m Newcomers (debut) race at Nakayama in strong style today, great start for the Dam. #JRA#improvingthebreed pic.twitter.com/qoVnxEeSNO — Graham Pavey (@LongBallToNoOne) September 20, 2021 Isn’t this win on debut in Japan by the daughter of […]
Victoria Cup Update – The TAB Have the Full Replay – Here it Is
Harness Racing Victoria can splice the replay of the Vic Cup as much as they like, but until they coordinate with the naming sponsor of the Melton Paceway, it isn’t going to achieve anything other than raising questions about why they did it. The TAB have the full replay up. This is the vital bit, […]
Mark Riley is a Man – Ice Pipe Jockeys Who Bash Women and Shoot Up Houses and Run are Just Grubs
If Group 1 winning jockey turned Group 1 winning trainer Mark Riley is not the hardest done by man in racing, he is at least in the top 5. Riley is serving an effective life sentence for the grand crime of presenting a horse to race when it was close to over the TCO2 limit. […]
A Left of Centre Tip
If you read or see the story about the poor woman with COVID-19 living in a tent in her Mum’s back yard because there is no emergency accommodation available to people required to quarantine, take it with a huge grain of salt. All is not as it appears with Georgia Millsom’s story. That all is […]
Prebble, Bayliss and a Whole Lot More – It is What it Is – Until it Ain’t
They are strange beasts these professional sports people. Leon Spinks beats Muhammed Ali in the upset of the century and has the world and hundreds of millions of dollars in prize purses at his feet. He hits the cocaine, stops training, loses the rematch, then loses it all. Prior to his death earlier this year […]
Remembering Taufan’s Melody
Big Philou’s nobbling in 1967 was the most controversial Caulfield Cup affair in history, but I wasn’t alive then. The greatest Caulfield Cup controversy in my lifetime occurred in 1998. An English galloper named Taufan’s Melody had made the trip across the oceans to have a crack at the Cups double, after having been invited […]
A Quick Tip
Put an English galloper named SAREEHA into your black book. The next time it appears in the UK – which I suspect will be in 3-6 weeks, and in a race over a distance of between 1300m and 1600m – back it with extreme confidence, and load up. Just make sure that you back it […]
Victoria Cup Controversy Part 1 – HRV Edit the Replay
Watch this. It’s the last 250m of the Group 1 Victoria Cup on Saturday night, replicated directly from the official replay of the race published on the Harness Racing Victoria and Harness Racing Australia websites. What you are seeing is the fastest 250m ever run in the entire world history of harness racing. It will […]