Happy Birthday Baby
30 years ago today my first child was born. Wow. Her mum has got genes. She didn’t get it from me. Happy birthday baby. Love you to the moon and back. And back again. And again and again and again……
As Time Goes By
Call her Butterfly, Madam Butterfly. Maggie dropped out first foal 30 years ago today, on Australia Day. How cool. My great grandfather died on Anzac Day 1918, on the Western Front. His great great, great granddaughter was born on Australia Day. What a great country this is. God bless Australia. 30 years hey? F**k I’m old. […]
On the Genius of Liam Birchley
Read your story about Liam Birchley with interest and agree he was badly done over by a steward who was obviously a complete dictator. Agree Liam was always a master 2yo trainer and winning the Karaka Millions for the 3rd time is a brilliant achievement. One of his best 2YO wins in the last 12 months […]
It Wasn’t Her Gait Either – Or Her Right Sex
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/GPM16012601.mp4 The one to watch in this race from Gloucester Park last week is the 6. That’s Not My Gait is its name. It wasn’t its gait either. This was a trotters race. It paced the whole way. RWWA Stewards should have disqualified it immediately. They didn’t, because they missed the wrong gait completely, even […]
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 […]