Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See how the Australian TAB had race 1 in New Zealand scheduled to run after race 2 at Te Aroha? It would have been a good trick. The only NZ races held that day were the ones at Te Aroha, and the first race definitely jumped before the second. I saw it with my own […]
Thestraight.com.au reports today that a 2.5% share in the superstar US racehorse turned stallion Flightline has sold for A$3.8 million, placing the value of the unbeaten galloper at A$15o million. At that price he is the bargain of the century. Flightline stands at a fee of $A225 000 in his second season and will serve […]
As strange as the news that HRV is looking to move the trots back to Moonee Valley sounds, I am assured by well-place insiders that its true. Call me a cynic if you will, but I still have extreme doubts that it will happen. For a start the Moonee Valley Racing Club have been planning […]
Take a look at this ride of Noel Callow in the 4th race at Doomben yesterday, and tell me how he avoided a suspension for either not giving his mount every possible opportunity to obtain the best finishing position, or alternatively for failing to ride the horse out to the finish. Callow is on Who […]
The ‘someone’ who was attended to by ambulance officers at the Rockhampton meeting on Tuesday was the assistant starter Bevon Burnell. The same Bevon Leslie Burnell who appeared in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court at 9.00am the next morning. Coincidence? Which North QLD jockey is couch surfing at the moment after first his wife walked out […]
HRNSW Stewards blitzed Jason Grimson’s stables last week, turning up 5 days in a row to conduct out of competition swabbing of the trainer’s runners on Saturday night. The theory behind the blitz was that a certain substance that Stewards believe is being used by some harness trainers as a performance enhancer has to be […]
I’m just a mug punter having a few bets to try and scrape quid, not an expert horseman, but there are a few things you learn when you watch horse races every waking hour of every day. One of them is that when the Stewards approve a horse wearing ear muffs pre-race only to help […]
Hey Archie Help a bloke out here & tell me how a trainer charged with animal welfare breaches can be given a stay of proceedings that allows them to continue to train? The parasite I refer to is Nicholas Howlett (pictured), the same trainer who raced a dog with cocaine in it’s system and tried […]
I can turn and walk away, or I can fire the gunStaring at the sky, staring at the sunWhichever I choose, it amounts to the sameAbsolutely nothing I’m aliveI’m deadI’m the strangerKilling an Arab – The Cure The man who murdered Melton is off to Abu Dhabi to kill purebred Arab racing too. I speak […]
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear “There is a fourth. Leap To Fame.” – Reverend Archibald J. Butterfly, Jason Without the Juice Jason Grimson has no difficulty talking a big game. […]
