Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing NSW employs a retention barn for runners in big races. Horses have to be in the barn by midday on the Thursday prior to their race, and are kept under close guard and physical 24/7 surveillance until 2 hours prior to the starting time of their race. The Tamworth and Albury Cups are […]
Our New Year’s resolution is to give readers a two tips a day and record a profit of 100% by the end of the financial year. The tips for each day can (and will) be on any of the three codes. Have a unit – we are using $100 as our unit – the win […]
The Stewards officiating at Saturday’s Toowoomba meeting channeled Santa by the way they practiced the true Xmas spirit of giving,. Giving reprieves not fines or suspensions I mean. Apprentice Dylan Bennett allowed his mount Beirut Miss to shift in when not fully clear of Good Times Again near the 1100m, taking that runner in, obliging […]
Is Robbie Waterhouse desperately in need of a quick earn? Why else would he have fielded at yesterday’s Gold Coast phantom meeting? We could have loaned him a couple of bucks and saved him an afternoon on his feet. Did Racing Queensland CEO Jason Scott turn left instead of right when backing out of the […]
Looks like a boom spray has been involved. Chemical from the previous treatment hasn’t been rinsed out properly. Subsequent aesthetic chemical put in to green it up for the tv camera from 600m to winning post. Treatment applied and the first 30m has been the residual from previous treatment and we have a dead square, […]
Having clocked up hundreds of hours of being on the track in 25 years at Burnie and beyond with the water truck operating a boom spray that looks way too regular a patch for the boom spray to have being turned around on whilst still on. The laws of physics mean that the inside of […]
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn’t know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread; Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bed We asked a question during the week about where Aaron Bain was, having not raced a […]
So who’s the Kiwi trainer who put their hand up this time and said they administered the Levamisole? Six or eight weeks after importation, two races apart sounds more like local administration then an imported problem Could the difference be that NSW tests, as you claim is essential for integrity, every winner and the other […]
Lucky Lingard has been on fire over at his ever excellent website letsgohorseracing.com, and his last two in depth articles have been crackers. Here is the first of them about the Gold Coast track debacle. It’s a stuff up not sabotage says Lucky, and I believe him. Have a read and see what you think. […]
By award winning racing writer John Lingard letsgohorseracing.com.au (Reproduced with permission) PRESSURE is mounting on the new LNP Government to instruct Racing Queensland to deliver a ‘please explain’ to the Brisbane Racing Club over its continued refusal to immediately provide a copy of the minutes of the controversial AGM that was held in October. Several […]
