Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Former Sunshine Coast trainer Damien Batters has been declared bankrupt after Workcover lodged a creditor’s petition seeking to recover debts that he owed for unpaid workers compensation insurance premiums. The bankruptcy comes as the latest blow for Batters, who was stood down by the QRIC in November last year after being charged by police with […]
The problem with small field sizes for harness races in the North Island of New Zealand continues apace, with 2/3rds of races run or about to be run this month in the region having fields of less than 8 runners, the sort of numbers that spell wagering turnover death. Cambridge is the worst affected track, […]
Juvenile chaser Bad Boy Red didn’t even live to see its second birthday before it died at the end of a vets needle on Sunday after suffering catastrophic injuries when dragged down and falling on the first turn at the Q2 Lakeside track. According to statistics published on the website of animal activist group the […]
Ausssie racing man and literary giant Gerald Murnane has once more missed out on winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, this time beaten by a writer from the land of Kincsem, the legendary Hungarian mare who went through her 54 start career at home and abroad unbeaten, including wins in the Goodwood Cup in England […]
Racing Review question Doesn’t QLD gallops race clockwise? And QLD harness (all harness just about) race anti clockwise? So if they shift it inside a gallops track are they: A/ going to build a grandstand and finish line stuff and all at the other end of the front straight or in the back straight? B/ […]
Luke Tarrant had it all. He could have been anything, anywhere. But he just couldn’t stay on the straight and narrow. It seems he still can’t. There is no-one to blame for his troubles but him. Herb from Hughenden Editor’s note – Luke Tarrant’s strike rates over the past 5 seasons paint a clear picture […]
Confusion reigns supreme in the racing ranks as the handing down of the Report of the Racing Review scheduled for Monday has been postponed without explanation to a date to be fixed. Racenet reports that it is understood that the government’s response to the Review – the flagship announcement of Monday’s planned event – has not […]
Punters who are planning to take the odds-on about The Lazarus Effect in race 4 at Addington tonight on the basis that it will boot up and hold the lead from gate 1 might want to reconsider their maps. The mail out of the South is that The Lazarus Effect’s driver Bob Butt has done […]
Disqualified jockey Luke Tarrant has posted on social media denying that he either failed to make submissions to a Stewards Inquiry into the legitimacy of his Health Assessment Reports or make a plea on charges laid against him as stated by the QRIC Stewards. The Stewards found that during a Stewards’ Inquiry conducted at Doomben […]
Could this be the year that Australian novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist and horse racing devotee Gerald Murnane finally wins the Nobel Prize in Literature? Murnane, whose love of the turf is illustrated by the title of his memoir Something for the pain: A memoir of the turf, has been a contender for the […]
