Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our track spies at Eagle Farm are telling us that the current track rating of Soft 6 for Wednesday’s meeting will turn to Heavy before the race day begins. They reckon that the track is rooted, and that it wouldn’t take much for the meeting to be called off. What they want to know is […]
Under the Queensland Local Rules of Racing a horse competing at a metropolitan race meeting (other than in a Group race or race 1) must be on course at least 2 hours before the advertised starting time of its race. From an integrity perspective adherence to the arrival time is extremely important, for horses that […]
Trainer Nick Walsh has been found blameless for the incident in which he scratched two of his three runners from a recent race at Rockampton. The betting sheets showed nothing untoward. Nothing to see. Cased closed.
This is the temporary training track for use by trainers at Globe Derby while the main track is being reconstructed. Its been built by dumping two truckloads of shell grit on top of the existing car park, and spreading it approximately two horses wide around a circumference of about 200m to create what must be […]
Rough Habit might have been able to carry more than 70kg to win a race under the snow capped Mt Taranaki in New Zealand more than 30 years ago, but as hard as he tried the giant horse Namazu was unable to repeat the feat with 70.5kg yesterday in the Beef Capital of OZ. Namazu […]
The batteries must have run flat on trainer Patrick O’Toole’ss jigger during the week judging by the performance of his previously sparked up horse Oakleigh on the weekend at Alpha. The winner of just 1 race from 35 starts prior to being hit with the jigger turned post-jolt winner of 2 from 2 was back […]
After seeing our story about Namazu attempting to set what we believed to be a modern day weigh carrying record when by lumping 70.5 kilos in this afternoon’s Tatts Gold Cup in Rockhamption, our avidly parochial Kiwi reader Timiuha from Mt Taranaki has fired a message across the ditch to alert us that in 1994 […]
Ricky Vale back in his bodybuilding days, showing off his muscles Can you remember ever seeing a horse in the modern age attempt to carry 70.5 to victory in a feature flat race like Ricky Vale’s great provincial galloper Namazu will in the Tattersells Gold Cup at Rockhampton this afternoon? Both Greg from the Gold […]
Just six weeks after jockey Scott Sheargold had his license suspended for a fortnight after he stuffed owners and trainers around for the 2nd time in 8 weeks by accepting dual engagements for mounts, and despite his having claimed that he had implemented changes to his booking procedures to make sure it would never happen […]
As hard as this may be to believe, the horse pictured – the team Yole trained 11yo Hez Razor Sharp – last raced only 16 days ago at a meeting in Launceston. It was his 299th race start, and to no-one’s surprise given the condition that the horse is in, it finished 2nd last in […]
