Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hi Archie The Balmain Boxer calling in from Jontiem Beach jn Thailand where I’m sitting here smoking hot and sweating watching the Tigers lose again, which is getting so depressing that I’m about to go and get a massage to ease the pain. But before I do I would like to comment on your story […]
A number of Queensland jockeys are known to be very upset about the late cancellation of the meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, in circumstances where the weather forecast showed very early in the day that increasingly heavy rainfall would almost certainly render the troubled track at Caloundra unsafe to race. It has been raining […]
The QRIC Stewards pre-race swabbed just 6 runners on the 9 race card at Eagle Farm yesterday, and swabbed only the winner after each race and no other horse. That’s a total of 15 swabs taken all up, at a race meeting carrying prizemoney of $895 000. Rockhampton hosted a 12 race card on Thursday, […]
On Friday night there were only 6 runners swabbed on the nine race card. Look at the prices of them (the favorite not swabbed in the race is in brackets next to it). R1 – $8 ($2.20) R2 -$126 ($3.10) R4 – $151 ($1.90) R5 – $23 ($3.20) R6 – $51 ($2.30) R8 – $26 […]
Integrity management standards in South Australian harness racing have plunged to such depths that the State has become a laughing stock. They don’t even test all the winners down there. Not even the ones they say they do. The Stewards summary for last night’s Globe Derby meeting shows that post-race swabs were only taken from […]
This is the head on Steward’s footage of the final stages of yesterday’s Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.. The outside horse won by 0.1 lengths, which is a nose in my book and a short-half head in Darren Flindell’s. Either way, it’s a bee’s dick. The outside horse came in a smidgen and they scraped […]
The South Australian Racing Appeals Tribunal has overturned Todd Balfour’s 5-year disqualification for pulling down the pants of a Steward and exposing him naked from the waist down, and replaced it with a 4.5 month DQ, which includes time already served. The Tribunal characterised Balfour’s actions as an assault, describing what he did as inappropriate […]
Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonlkin – under whose name the pair’s team are trained these days – had starters in 3 of the 4 Nutrien Sales final races at Melton last night and won them all. Bay of Biscay trained in Emma’s name won the 3yo colt’s final, earning $75 000 as a reward. The […]
Tt was the 5 handed Clayton Crew v the one out Grant Dixon and Nathan Jack last night in the Nutrien 2yo final at Melton . A team of five will usually beat two single gunslingers in a shoot out in their home town, and despite Dixon’s best efforts that’s what happened when the Clayon […]
The GRV Stewards reported that there were no incidents in race 5 at Bendigo yesterday. They must have been watching a different race to me. Keep your eyes on the 3 dog in the white rug and see what happens to it as they turn into the straight for home. See it get smashed by […]
