Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Shoe returns to scale after winning the 1958 Melbourne Cup on Baystone Sad news today that legendary Queensland Hall of Fame jockey Mel Schumacher passed away in his sleep on Friday morning. The Melbourne Cup winning jockey known far and wide as the Shoe had been living out in Charleville in recent years. He […]
Gee you were stiff if you were one of the many punters who backed Remember Jack from $4.80 int0 $2.60 favorite in the 7th race at Scone over 1000m yesterday. He’s the one in the light blue silks with a mid-blue cap in the replay above, number 12. This horse should and would have won […]
Australian developers have consent to build 193 new apartments at Auckland’s Alexandra Park, demolishing one of two grandstands to make way for the scheme to add even more units to the land off Greenlane West Rd. Lance Rosenberg, managing director of Sydney-headquartered financier Gleneagle Securities, said that the business had permission to develop Parkview on Cornwall […]
Three decades ago Robbie Waterhouse sought a pardon from the Queen of England to get him back into racing after his Fine Cotton warning off. He didn’t get it from QE2. But he didn’t need it. His Queen whose efforts would get him restored to racing was only inches away on the other side of […]
Sariah Champkin continues without a ride on Saturday, making it three weeks since she has last had a mount after being charged with serious criminal offences related to her alleged stabbing of another racing participant. But why do the QRIC continue to refuse to announce publicly whether she is allowed to continue to ride if […]
Keep your eye on the driver of the horse in 2nd on the rail, it the light colored silks. That’s Jye Standford. What’s he looking for, the one he backed? Seems so. Stanford pleaded guilty to 2 counts of betting against in race a race against a horse he trains, one count for doing it […]
64 harness racing horses have been exported from New Zealand in the past month alone. 18 of them have gone to China for reasons unknown, given that country appears to have no active harness racing industry. The other 46 have been sent to Australia to race (44), or the United States (2), with almost all […]
The Australian Rich List is out, and the fun racing news is to learn that for all Lloyd Williams perceived and actual clout in the Australian racing world, the trot man from Queensland Kevin Seymour AM is richer than him. When you’ve got as much as either of them it doesn’t really matter either way, […]
Many people are wondering how the 5ft 8 1/2 inch Tim Tszyu will handle his 6ft 5 1/2 inch tall opponent Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora in their WBO and WBC World Super Welterweight title bout in Vegas next weekend, given that our boy will be giving away 9 inches in height and almost 10 […]
A couple of high profile former harness racing licensees on both sides of the ditch named Cameron have recently had, or are about to have, their long disqualifications for egregious breaches of the racing rules expire. I speak here of Cameron Fitzpatrick in NSW who has served a 12-year disqualification for his involvement in the […]
