Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were unusual scenes before the second race at Ipswich yesterday when Stewards hauled trainer Mark Currie into the room and demanded an explanation for his stable runner Successismagic having been backed from $19.00 into $6.50* given it’s god awful form. It was a fair question too. Successismagic had raced twice previously, finishing 1oth of […]
In among all the excitement about a great night of racing at Melton tonight, something is missing. The Emma Stewart/Clayton Tonkin stable domination of the fields. Last year Stewart and Tonkin had seven runners in the Victoria Derby, more than half the field. This year they only have three. Then they had six in the […]
The MRC parted ways with two CEOs in 12 months. It cost the club $2 million ByDanny Russell and Cameron Houston October 17, 2025 — 7.30pm Melbourne Racing Club forked out almost $2 million in severance payments to cut ties with its past two chief executive officers in a turbulent 12 months that saw former chairman John […]
Stephen Stanek wasn’t much of a horse trainer, leading in just 2 winners from 75 runners in the decade between 2010 and 2020 that he held a license. Stanek doesn’t seem like much of a bloke either according to the report below that appeared in the Toowoomba Chronicle today. There are bad eggs in every […]
Show Me The Money While the debate continues about which of The Everest and Caulfield Cup day meetings are the best, the jockeys are talking with their feet as Craig Williams, Ethan Brown, Ben Melham, Declan Bates, Damien Lane and Michael Dee make the pilgrimage north to ride at Randwick in preference to the big […]
The big guns come out to play at Addington on Friday night, with all of the Kiwi hopes for the NZ Cup lining up over 2600m from the stand in the Canterbury Classic except Akuta, whose Spring carnival campaign looks doubtful after he suffered an internal bleed when unplaced last start. Reigning NZ Pacer of […]
Archie 35 years ago I aspired to own a horse that could run a 2 minute mile!! I am sure I just watched a miracle! The Rascal, winner of race 2 at Albion Park. I went through it’s runs in NZ it ran a place running 2 minutes and won going 2.02. After 2 months […]
The Queensland riding ranks, already decimated by disqualifications imposed during the doctored Health Assessment Report scandal, have taken another hit after jockey Shania Willis was on Wednesday suspended for 9 months after returning a positive swab to a banned substance in random urine sample taken during official trials held at the Gatton track on the […]
Gee you were unlucky if you backed the favorite Vovo in the last at Doomben yesterday. First the mare collides with the running rail leaving the saddling enclosure. She is vetted and passed fit to run. Then when the whole field is almost loaded one of the runners burrows under the barrier and bolts. There […]
Do you want the long story about the NSW Parliamentary Committee Report into Possible contempt arising from the inquiry into the proposal to develop Rosehill Racecourse or the short one? We will give you the short version because the long one is boring. Racing NSW did absolutely nothing wrong, nor did Peter V’Landys. The whole thing […]
