Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Want to see something that should ring alarm bells? With the exception of Showsomejoy, who ran 5.8 seconds faster than its previous best winning time to take out race 1 in 1.53.8 off a soft sit on a slick pace, every single one of Emma Stewart’s eight other VicBred Super Series semi-final winners ran times […]
The Naomi Kerr trained Prioritise eased out in the market from $1.60 out to $3.40 in the 5th race at Port Pirie last night, which seemed odd for a pacer that had won its past three on end at the stronger class track in Mildura. It didn’t take long to find out why it blew […]
The Stewards at Prairie yesterday hauled jockey Shane McGovern into the room for a please explain about his failing to ride out Stop On Sophia (the horse in 2nd as the film rolls, in the green and red) fully to the finishing line in race three. McGovern quite truthfully explained that his saddle had slipped […]
Three cheers to the track staff at the Gold Coast who took over from the ‘guru of grass’ Nevesh Ramdhani. They’ve done a great job to get the turf track fixed and back up and firing. It played fair all day. The times were fast. Every horse had an even chance. No-one slipped or slid. […]
What can you say about the TAB outage at the start of spring? Four things I reckon. Gillon the Great has turned into Gillon the Grape in world record time. The outfit he leads is Friar Tucked. This was just a warm-up run for the inevitable meltdown on Cup day. And Tabcorp should change its […]
Methinks punter Peter Lawrence is the last person who should be whining and moaning about TAB rorts. After all, Lawrence is Robbie Waterhouse’s man on the NSW north coast, and a close associate of Sally Snow. He wasn’t complaining when Sally was inflating the TAB odds for his crew during the hour of power then […]
The first at Albion Park last night was an absolute gee up. Matt Elkins on the favorite Royal Speech should have been charged with an unacceptable drive. What he did was a disgrace. With the Elkins trained/Narissa McMullen (his wife) driven no hoper Art Jester attacking it like a maniac, the leader Dangerzone had run […]
Allow me to put I Wish I Win’s performance in the Moir Stakes yesterday into perspective. Black Caviar won seven races at Mooney Valley. The fastest final six hundred meters she ran in any of them was 33.51 seconds in the 2012 Australia Stakes, and she did that coming from the box seat and cruising […]
If you’d backed Miss Aria in the last at the Valley yesterday you would have torn up your ticket at the 600m mark. I know I did. Horses just don’t come from that far back over 1200m on the saucer and win. It just doesn’t happen. Or it didn’t until yesterday. What an amazing win, […]
Emma Stewart turned out 39 runners in the semis of the Breeders Crown last night at Melton. 34 of them qualified for the rich grand finals. Stewart won 9 of the semi-finals, ran the quinella in 7 of them, the trifecta in 3, and the first four in 1 more. All up her stable took […]
