Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
28-year-old Queensland trainer Matt Elkins is in a fine vein of form this season, hitting winners at a strike rate of 19%, almost fifty percent higher than his career rate of 13%. One of the reason Elkins is winning all these races is his ability to get old horses running faster than they have in […]
The return to form yesterday at Marburg of veteran pacer Courageous Leo, who at 50-1 greeted the judge for the first time since he won a heat of the Nanango Show twelve months ago ago (he ran 2nd in the final), reminded us of an excellent article that gun trot writer Duane Ranger penned a […]
The old adage about always backing the rank outsider in small fields proved true again last night at Launceston when the $31.00 roughie A Dragon For Joe came from three back the fence on debut to win the feature 2yo race the KEITH STANLEY DEBUTANTE, defeating his three much better fancied rivals that started at […]
Barcaldine Trainer Toni Schofield combined with veteran jockey Jason Missen to land a double at the birthplace of the modern Labor Party and home of the Tree of Knowledge. The duo also teamed up to finish a pair of seconds on the five race card. Single Honour – who was trained at various times by […]
There is nothing that gets a punters blood boiling more than a major form reversal that results in a win. We saw one yesterday when the Team Hayes trained Angry Skies took out the Warracknabeal Cup. Angry Skies had gone like a busted arse at its previous two starts this prep. It has run last […]
I don’t know if NSW hobby trainer Jacqui Ingham would have been doing cartwheels or taking commiserations last night at Parkes. You wait two seasons for a winner – just your ninth in a decade of holding a license – and when it comes you only get half. Ingham’s stable star – her only horse […]
Lacey Morrison copped a weeks suspension for failing to ride her mount out to the finish line. It’s NOT the leader in the dark green colors as the film rolls, as we wrote in an earlier edition of this story. Tyler Leslight was riding that horse, we have subsequently been corrected. The jockeys actions did […]
City Of Troy at Coolmore, wearing his Longines World’s Best Horse rug By Will Jones, award winning author of The Black Horse Newsletter Aidan O’Brien, of course, told everyone City Of Troy was his best Epsom Derby winner and even the best horse he had ever trained. No one, of course, believed him; it was […]
Queensland trot driver Jordan Topping is appealing her four week suspension for an unacceptable drive in the race we told you about where she went hammer and tong with her arch-nemesis Danielle McMullen, and destroyed the chances of both their horses. I’m not sure whether Topping has shelled out the vig to hire James Murdoch […]
As we have written several times recently there appears to be an infectious disease sweeping the QLD racing ranks that is making people turn to (alleged) crime and landing them in court before a Magistrate or Judge. Sunshine Coast based rider Morgan Butler is yet the latest to catch the wicked virus. Butler appeared in […]
