You Always Hear It Here First
Told you so didn’t we? You always hear it here first. Linday Hatch to Give Away Training? Many thanks to our sources. No doubt our scoop will piss Tony Gollan off. Good. He knows why.
Chairman’s Update – Racing NSW Continues Record Distributions To Participants
Dear NSW Racing Industry Participants, One of the main Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of a public company is the dividends it pays to its shareholders. In the racing industry, the equivalent KPI is the total returns paid to participants. Accordingly, it should bring great satisfaction and pride to NSW participants that the thoroughbred racing industry […]
The Cook and Chairman of a Turf Club, the Truck Thief and Meth Trafficker on Parole, and the Tippers – Only on the Glitter Strip – Giddy Up
Brett Cook is the Chairman of the Gold Coast Turf Club, and runs the show. He is also the owner and managing director of a company named Coastal Tipper Hire, which was as the name suggests hires out earthmoving vehicles. Cookie is the Man Who Can Fix Up the Gold Coast Track – After All […]
Fast Tracks, Magic, or Something Else Altogether? – I’ve Got an Acquired Brain Injury – It’s All Too Hard For Me
https://www.harness.org.au/racing/fields/race-fields/?mc=AP030326#APC03032601 The Real Rocketman is an 8-year-old pacer who in 101 starts coming into yesterday had never won in faster than 1.56.1, and in defeat had only broken 1.55 once, that being when it ran 1.54.9 in finishing 5th, after having the 1-1. Yesterday it won in 1.54.0. How? Was the track super fast? It […]
Irvine Welsh on Fear and Loathing
The most dreaded things are not the physical dangers, But the mental perils we find ourselves in. Our worst nightmares lie within us, dormant. Our successes flourish, and then fade. But our failures? Oh how they grow like tumors in our weary hearts.
Houdini Was a Magician Too – But Look What Happened to Him
When the 7-year-old gelding Martin Magic came up from the SA-Victoria border area to QLD to join the Matt Elkins stable it had raced 98 times for 11 wins, but had never won in faster that 1.58.led a That win came 3 years ago. More recently it had led a year ago at Terang and […]
The Stewards Are Doing Both Amelia Rose Heinrich and Racing a Disservice
SHE’S GOT IT – Began awkwardly and bounded at the start. Raced wide throughout. Near the 150m when looking to obtain a run to the outside of KAMALA, was impeded and had to steady when that runner shifted outwards. Apprentice A Heinrich was reprimanded under the provisions of AR131(a) for careless riding. Close to the […]
Here’s Looking At You Too Kid – Peace
Once you’ve stared evil in the face, there is no turning back The walls close in around you Those walls of terror. – Irvine Welsh In these terrible times or terror and evil, where innocent little kids are being murdered en masse by rockets fired by faceless men from far away, the universe has sent […]
The Upheld Protest That Shouldn’t Have Been – IMO Anyway
Take a l00k at this race above. Protest 2nd v 1st upheld. Now look at it again in super slow-mo. It looks to me like the driver of the horse on the outside was the one who drove his wheel up inside the leader, not the other way around. If I am right the protest […]
If You Don’t Know Where You Are Going, You Will Never Get There
What is going on with the prizemoney for feature races at Menangle. It seems that it is all just TBC. To be confirmed. That’s a great way for a trainer to plan their horse’s prep isn’t it? We might go to Menangle and we might not. It all depends on what HRNSW are going to […]