Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
When punters arrived at Riccarton for NZ Cup Day n Saturday is was sunny and the skies were clear. Then in between races 4 and 5 the heavens opened, and this happened. In Australia the meeting would have been called off in a heartbeat. Not across the ditch. There they just downgraded the track to […]
We all know that New Zealand is a clean, green country. It’s water is clean, it’s air is fresh and unpolluted, and its forests are lush. Everything about the country except the wages is pristine. Even the horse racing. There are no bicarb drug cheats in the Kiwi gallops or trots. Not one. The RIB […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
Grab your kids soccer ball and try this at home. I bet you don’t succeed. Diego Maradona did it against the best soccer players in the world. The man may have been El Loco, stark raving crazy. But he was El Magnifique.
I don’t think the caller at the Mt Perry races on the weekend will be calling the Melbourne Cup anytime soon. Good on him for trying, but after calling only two of the ten runners in the ten horse field more than once, six of them once only and two of them not at all […]
A funny incident occurred in the 4th race at the Gold Coast on Saturday. The whips of jockeys Anthony Allen (in the blue and white) and Danny Peisley (in the red and white) became entangled. Allen ended up with both whips. Jockey A. Allen is not a strong rider with the persuader in the right […]
Jockey Lacey Morrison (pictured) has had more fines and suspensions for whip rule breaches over the past 12 months than the average rider, so it is fair to say that she is somewhat fortunate that the Stewards at yesterday’s Cairns TAB meeting were half asleep at the wheel. Lacey struck her mount in race 4 […]
At the risk of being accused of banging on about how good the Kiwi 3-year-olds Got The Chocolates and Marketplace are, I though we would do a comparison of the time the pair of young pacers ran in The Velocity on Friday versus the best time ever run at Addington over 1950m or 1980m by […]
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and it saddens me immensely to say it, but Victorian harness racing is fucked. Absolutely and utterly rooted. All of Melton pretty much bar the track and buildings are gone, sold to pay off debt. Harness Racing gets nothing out of it except some savings on […]
The more I think about the win of Got The Chocolates in the $500 000 The Velocity at Addington yesterday, the more I realize that we may have witnessed greatness. Twice. We saw it in Marketplace too. Got The Chocolate got them, and he gets all the accolades too for he did it the hard […]
