Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Breeders in the trots have become obsessed with constantly introducing new foreign – almost exclusively US – lines into our standardbred families. Year after year stallions who couldn’t make it in America are brought out here – or their semen is – and touted as the next best thing, the new Bettors Delight or Art […]
Take a look at race 4 at Gloucester Park last night and keep your eye on Chris Voak, the driver of number 1 Maximum Rock. Have you ever seen anything like this before? The gear malfunctioned, and no matter what Voak tried to do he couldn’t rectify the situation. Maximum Rock lost 5th place on […]
Above is the head on view of the interference suffered by the second placed horse Run Like A Girl as a consequence of the leader Queen Olympia abruptly and dramatically shifting out passing the 100m mark in race 4 at Eagle Farm, that led to Ceejay Graham lodging a protect against the winner. Below is […]
I would have bet my life and my wife that the protest in race 4 at Eagle Farm would have been upheld. If I had I wouldn’t be here to write about it, and Maggie would be someone else’s sex slave (lucky them). How the hell did they dismiss that one? The leader veered straight […]
Monica Wright, the now former wife of Australian women’s cricket captain Ashleigh Gardner, is all over the media at the moment with her calls for ex to be stripped of her leadership role in the team. It’s the classic case of hell having no fury like a woman scorned, but do her claims have any […]
A hat trick this morning! Player of the Week. Seeds don’t fall far from trees. His Poppy taught him well. Go little man. Eat your heart out Liam Messi.
Eddie McGuire is blowing up big time about Peter V’Landys outsmarting the AFL by scoring a broadcast deal for the NRL that puts the aerial ping boys contract in the shade. V’Landys played them all off a break, Eddie says. Of course he did. It is called the art of negotiation, and no-one anywhere is […]
This is Mildura race 1. Take a look at the driver of the leader, Corey Johnson. Watch how he extends his whip out way wide of the cart. These below are rules 156 (6), (7) and (8). (6) A whip shall not be used so as to obstruct, strike or endanger another driver or horse. […]
Ottavio Galetta, a hugely successful owner in both horse codes, has passed away age 82. Galetta, an immigrant from Calabria at a young age, first came to prominence as the owner of the great pacer Don’t Retreat, the 1976 Australian Harness Horse of the Year. He later became the owner of the dual Group 1 […]
The APG are an standardbred auction house on a deep and slippery slide. Their CEO has been stood down after sexual harassment claims were made against him. A board member has left the building after similar claims were made against them. The outfit is so cash strapped that it has had t0 abandon live sales […]
