Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
24/5/24 Dear Archie It’s not even midday on a Friday and punters around the country are lubing up for a regular weekend of pineapple insertion when going in search of backing a winner. Gatton race 1 is a maiden over 860m and has a raging odds on favourite named Loaded Gun, which has been $2.20 […]
How do you compete at horse sale with blokes who have as much cash to splash as Yulong’s owner Yuesheng Zhang and his partner Zhijun Zhao? It’s near impossible, certainly for the average racehorse owner. Zhang and Zhao spent more than $11 million dollars at the Magic Millions National Broodmare sale yesterday, and picked up […]
The expression to be Puckeridged has become a popularly adopted phrase in QLD racing circles to describe things that have been stuffed up, in particular but not limited to race tracks. Named – fairly or unfairly – after Racing QLD’s Senior Track and Racecourse Manager Greg Puckeridge, the term gained wide currency in the wake […]
It appears that we will have to wait another month for the worst kept secret in harness racing to be publicly revealed, the appointment of Albion Park chairman Brad Steele as the new CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand. The timing is perfect, for that will allow Steele to serve out his time through to […]
Saginaw – trained by Seaton Grima’s close associate ‘Smokin’ Joe Connolly, a servind NSW police officer – ran in the first race at Menangle on Saturday night and finished a weakening 7th. After the race Saginaw was inspected by the vet and diagnosed with colic, which is most unusual condition for a horse who five […]
The horse Major Cyclone that you see above is an unraced trotter that is trialling at Rangiora today, which in normal circumstances would be apropros of nothing and a case of so what? But this one is a little different, for there are huge question marks over the bona fides of its registered owner and […]
ATA has addressed the issue again with RQ/QRIC – horses that dual accept and at least one of the races is a Feature (any race $75k or more), trainers have until 5pm on accept day to remove the horse from the Feature race otherwise it MUST run in the feature (even if an emergency in […]
A number of trainers sent us the advice republished in the story below that they received from the ATA (QLD) branch about the dual acceptance rule at the gallops, seeking our opinion. It took us a few reads to get our head around the rule, but once we understood it properly we had to say […]
Trainer David Van Dyke accepted his smart mare My Snow Queen to start in two races on Saturday, the Listed Chief De Beers and a Benchnark 85. She drew a place as emergency in both, 3rd emergeny in the BM85 and 4th emergency in the Chief De Beers. The Chief De Beers was a feature […]
Southern Front finished tailed off first-up at Townsville on the 17th of May, and was beaten 114.84 lengths. It was vetted after the race and no significant abnormalities were found. SOUTHERN FRONT – eased down in the final straight and was distanced at the finish. A post-race veterinary examination of SOUTHERN FRONT revealed no significant […]
