Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Fresh off his amazing last start win at Menangle, Merlin returned to New Zealand tonight to turn on one of the best performances in a Cambridge Flying Mile ever seen. Merlin had to do it the hard way sitting 3 and 4 wide without cover other than for a few strides, and he didn’t get […]
Have you ever seen a New Zealand or Australian two-year-old run it’s last half mile in 53.4 seconds? I can’t remember one. Merlin did it when he won at Alexandra Park last Thursday night. A half in 53.4. Holy hell, that’s Lazarus time. Nathan Jack reckons Team Emma’s best kid’s got Merlin covered. They call […]
No the bird is not the Nazi Hunter Robert James Wagner is a murderer who is doing life for knocking off his uncle so he could snaffle his boat and his cash. Milton Leslie Doyle is the Nazi hunting Brisbane professional punter who put Wagner behind bars. Doyle didn’t risk his life to put the […]
Robert James Wagner: How two mates helped catch a Nazi-obsessed killer Convicted killer Robert James Wagner loved Hitler. This is the story of two men who befriended the Queensland man in order to elicit his confession to the grisly murder of his uncle. MILTON Doyle knew something wasn’t quite right about Robert James Wagner the […]
Isabel Walsh will be hoping that I Cast No Shadow can start life in her care on the right foot and begin to reclaim some of that form that saw him win the 2022 Inter Dominion Pacing Championship Grand Final. Walsh has recently taken over training duties from Queensland horseman Darrel Graham and the horse […]
Aussie handicapping system Don’t Stop Dreaming is a rating 120 pacer in Australia. In New Zealand it’s only a rating 107. Kango is rateg 118 in Australia. At home its merely a rating 99. Miracle Mile second placegetter Sooner The Bettor left Sydney as a rating 85. It stepped off the plane back to Auckland […]
WHAT a disastrous weekend it’s been for the sport in Queensland and if Racing Minister Grace Grace hasn’t heard the increasing calls for the removal of QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard (pictured above) she must be living under a rock. Former Sunday Mail Editor and Sky News boss in Queensland, Peter Gleeson, in a stunning expose […]
The greyhound meeting at Sandown Park on Sunday looked suspiciously like a gallops program run on the poly track at the Gold Coast. There were 9 races run on the program. Only one of them had a full field of eight starters. One other had 7 runners. All the rest had fields of 6 or […]
So the favorite for the Doncaster Handicap Another Wil has drawn the extreme outside barrier. So what? Two of the past 5 winners have started out wide. Mr Brightside jumped from gate 18 of 20 in the 2022 Doncaster and won. So did Brutal in 2019. Kermadec won from gate 16 in 2015 too. Admittedly […]
SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S MOMENTUM GROWS: HRSA ANNOUNCE PRIZEMONEY INCREASE In the first of what will be four announcements this week, Harness Racing South Australia (HRSA) is excited to unveil a new prizemoney model which will see an increase to stakes across all segments. Saturday night prizemoney (not including feature races and heats into finals events) will […]
