Slap Me I’m Seeing Things
Keep your eyes on the dog in the white rug number 3 in race 8 at Richmond. You would have torn your ticket up in disgust before they’d gone 50 meters. Then this. Wow! Slap me I’m seeing things.
The Birch is Back – Big Time
Liam Birchley is a great trainer, and an even better bloke. He is true Australian too. The wannabe coppers at Racing Victoria back in the day took him without any evidential basis for everything that he had, and kicked him out on his own. Liam was down, but he never bit the dust. Men of […]
LB – Liam’s Birchley’s Back (First Published 3 April 2022)
Liam Birchley is in my opinion one of the hardest done by blokes in racing, not that he would agree with me, for the trainer’s not the type to get bitter or complain. He has plenty of grounds to though. Birchley’s training career was literally destroyed overnight by Terry Bailey and his ‘Integrity’ Team at […]
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY – CLARK, McGRATH & MANDER
Story by John Lingard, https://letsgohorseracing.com.au/ THE ‘Next Lap’ – a phrase coined for the future of Queensland racing – promised a new operational model that would deliver streamlined governance and broaden expertise on the Control Board. It highlighted how ‘integrity must be the foundation of the industry in Queensland’ under-pinning community confidence, protecting animal welfare […]
Some Horses Should Never Be Backed
Not As Promised is a super talented trotter, and has been since he was a kid trained by Jess Tubbs. A trotter doesn’t win 17 from 37 and place in another 9 unless they are very, very good, and they don’t boast a best time of 1.52.3 either. Yeah Not As Promised is good alright, […]
Cream Rises to the Top
South African trained jockey Sean Cormack is a very, very good hoop, far too good to be riding in Townsville on a Saturday afternoon. Cormack has won 14 Group 1 races. That’s more than Ethan Brown, and you wouldn’t see him hunting around in North QLD when there were richer races on offer much closer […]
Sheila Won the Cups Double Again – Meeting Symons and Marrying Him – Ladies and Gentleman, the Bride and Groom (First Published 12 August 2022)
Sheila and John Symons, saying I do. Well, John said yes and Sheila said I will, so I guess that’s close enough. It all happened at 2 o’clock this arvo in the little chapel down on water here at Port Douglas, and it was beautiful. I’ve never seen two people happier in my life, neither […]
Re the Start at Hawera
Archie In my opinion the best red coat in North NZ is Ron Weller, (an ex Aussie and a good mate). Ron does Auckland and Cambridge. I am led to believe that the stewards at Hawera wanted him to do the job, but when he told them he would require somewhere to stay overnight to […]
Gee Larry is Good
Leap To Fame turned the tables on Kingman last night by giving his great modern rival a pasting in the Ballarat Cup, and in the process reminded us all of just how good he is. Larry had lost a few 0f his most avid fans after being beaten at 5 of his past 10 starts […]
Keayang Zahara is Too
The greatest female trotter in Southern Hemisphere harness racing history made it 22 out 23 last night in the Ballarat Trotters Cup, and didn’t she do it easily too. Champion square gaiter Just Believe held the track record for the 2200m at 1.57.0. Keayang Zahara went 1.56.8, and probably could have gone a second faster […]