Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Wet tracks all round make for a tough day on the punt, but it won’t stop any of us from trying. After all, what else are you going to do a Saturday afternoon when the footy season’s over? Spring cleaning? Puh-lease. You will be able to pay a cleaner on Monday after we fill up […]
Many people ask me who Peter Profit was. This is he. My favourite pacer as a kid. You wouldn’t mind owning a horse that raced for ten seasons and recorded a 27% win rate and ran a place 57% of the time, most of them in Free For All races, would you? He was a […]
Well how is this for timing? On Thursday we publish a story highly critical of the Racing Integrity Board in which we highlight the deficiencies in the newly introduced system of an external Adjudicative Committee hearing and determining matters that have been traditionally the domain of racing stewards in each of the codes, and questioning […]
Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards concluded an inquiry into licensed Apprentice Jockey Ms Alisha Ross for providing an altered doctor’s clearance and giving false and misleading evidence to Stewards at the Townsville Turf Club on 1October and the Mackay Turf Club on 2 October 2021. After taking into consideration all the evidence tendered by […]
Never Breed or Buy. Always Adopt. Always Have Animals Spayed or Neutered. Please join countless other kind people who are working to prevent animal homelessness. Find out how you can help, and please pledge to do your part to end this crisis. Every animal bred and born—on purpose or by accident—and every animal purchased from a breeder […]
PETA (above) claiming that Hitler didn’t have the same ideas as them by saying that even if he did, noble causes shouldn’t be abandoned just because they were supported by Nazis who fed people into gas chambers and threw their bodies into mass holes Hunting and horse races are the last vestiges of a dead […]
Well it probably wasn’t, but I am writing this story so I am allowed to call Cole Diesel’s win in 1989 the greatest if I want to, and bully for the rest of them. How many Caulfield Cup winners do you know that step up from over the mile in the Toorak the week before, […]
I was having a yarn recently with the great Australian writer Andrew Rule of Chopper, Underbelly, Winx, Chance and many other great books fame, and the discussion turned to the topic of the greatest Australian racing writer ever. As my early bids I threw up names like Max Presnell, Bert Lillye, Frank Hardy,Rollo Roylance, the […]
The Grand Circuit is the world heavyweight championship of harness racing. It’s fought over seven gruelling rounds of super-elite racing designed to sort the men out from the boys and girls. I’m not using that phrase to be sexist, simply because it is the truth. Just as world women’s heavyweight champ Hanna Gabriels wouldn’t last 10 […]
Lightning Jash’s driver Alex Ashwood was just having a bit of a snooze there. He’s awake now! Bendigo race caller, telling us what we all see, for the benefit of the radio listeners The Alby Ashwood trained and driven Lightning Jash was was backed for a stack in the 5th at the Bendigo trots last […]
