Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A trainer presenting a horse to race when not free of prohibited substances is what’s known as a strict liability offence. As far as guilt or innocence goes there is only the former if your horse throws a positive swab. Even if you can prove from the recordings made by your stable security cameras that […]
The Betoota Advocate is a satirical news and current affairs website that takes the piss out of pretty much everything and everyone, so there is a fair chance that the Sportsbet ‘offer’ to buy the publication is just a wind up. If so it is a pretty clever send up of the current forces at […]
Merlin’s time run in winning the Kaikoura Cup at the world’s most beautiful trot track on Monday was the third fastest 2400m from a standing start in New Zealand history behind Eamon Maguire and Lazarus. The difference between the Wizard and that pair is that Eamon Maguire ran his time from the sprint lane trail […]
The snippet you see above is taken from a story by Peter Ryan about Jamie Melham that appears in today’s The Age. It is wrong. Ben Hayes didn’t take over the training of Harlem (in partnership with Tom Dabernig until 18 months after Melham (then Kah) has won the Australian Cup on the horse. David […]
The races at Eagle Farm on Tuesday kick off at the ridiculous time of 10.12 am. Which makes one thing an absolute Cup day certainty. That good thing? That their will be young champagne fueled fillies spewing in the rose garden before the clock strikes 12. Midday. And that there will be pissed people all […]
We told you ten days ago the story of how smart young Kiwi pacer The Lazarus Effect had been driven as dead as a doornail at Addington recently to ensure that it got a favorable front row draw in the $50 000 sales series race at Kaikoura today. Well the plan worked to perfection. The […]
The race for the NZ Trotting Cup just heated up big time after Merlin’s outstanding win this afternoon in the Kaikoura Cup in near track record time. New Zealand’s reigning pacer of the year did it the hard way, coming from worse than mid-field at the 1000m to race around and sit outside former star […]
Fresh from tipping us 5 winners on Derby – she says it would have been 8 if three of her top tips weren’t scratched – the naked tipster Dr Georgia Whiting is back to help us tear the bookies apart on Cup Day. Here are her tips. The Doc has tipped the American dirt tracker […]
Until now it has been accepted by the Stewards, Appeals Panel and Tribunal that Levamisole is only detectable in a swab for less than a week. This elimination time for the drug is based on an otherwise unrecognized study of 3 horses conducted by the the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory in collaboration with HRNSW, which […]
Half Yours was devastating in its Caulfield Cup win, and only goes up a half-kilo here to 53kg, which is incredibly light for a winner of that race. He only needs to stay to win. But can he? That’s the big question. His sire never went over further than a mile and a half, but […]
