Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I wrote last year that if Leap To Fame had just one flaw it was that while he can reel off a quartet of sub 28 second quarters that crush his rivals into the ground, history had proven that he couldn’t run his final quarter under race conditions in any faster than about 26 1/2 […]
The trick to working out sectional times is not to take them at their published value, because some horses in a race cover more ground than others by sitting one off the fence in the death or running line, or coming home wide like bad draws in when in Melbourne so often forced District Attorney […]
Jason Grimson didn’t make District Attorney run any faster. The horse could always go fast, and had proven it 3 times in his last 4 runs at Melton when he went his last splits in 26.02, 25.88 and 25.72. Grimson didn’t need to do much at all with him. All District Attorney needed to beat […]
One of the key recommendations contained in the yet to be public released report of the review into QRIC’s operations is that responsibility for the Greyhounds Adopotion Program (GAP) should be transferred away from QRIC and over to the control of Racing Queensland. The Government is set to adopt the recommendation and make the move. […]
It was astounding to see a plunge on the failed 2o23 Melbourne Cup favorite Vauban in the Ascot Gold Cup at Royal Ascot last night. Whoever backed it from $9.oo into $6.00 is an absolute bloody idiot. You could see from last year’s Cup run that Vauban is all spick and no span, and that […]
I can understand the driver of the leader in this race Tom Ison getting a little bit preturbed at the horse behind him running up onto his helmet. Anyone would. But most people wouldn’t cock their neck and give the horse a reverse head butt like Ison did, and for very good reasons too, concern […]
The mail out of the North Island is that dual-code trainer Graeme ‘Rogie’ Rogerson, whose joint training arrangement with Dylan Ferguson ended about a month ago when Ferguson resigned, will soon set up a new training partnership with widely respected horseman James Stormont (pictured below). Stormont, who is presently working down in Christchurch at Claymore […]
Clayton Tonkin rolled another 2yo off his production line last Friday night at Shepparton that could prove to be the number 1 juvenile in his team. Always Hot was the horse’s name. It won on debut beating the high classs 3-time winner from the Aaron Dunn stable Forty Love. That wasn’t the best of it […]
The Government seems reluctant to tell you who they have appointeed as the new Acting QRIC Commissioner, so we will. His name is Malcom Letts. Mr Letts is no relation to the famous racing man of the same surname John. This Letts is a career public servant who most recently he has held the role […]
Former champion jockey Danny Nikolic will face a Melbourne court next month on charges including aggravated burglary, stalking, intentionally damaging property and theft of a motor vehicle. Nikolic, who rode Mummify to win the Caulfield Cup in 2003, was charged with two other burglary offences as part of an investigation by the Moonee Valley crime […]
