Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The best bred 2YO in New Zealand stepped out on debut at Ascot Park in Invercargill this afternoon, recording a super impressive win. Always Dreaming is the young colt’s name and he’s by Bettors Delight out of Start Dreaming, making him a the full brother to both Saturday’s Chariots of Fire favorite Don’t Stop Dreaming […]
The Victorian government’s recently introduced laws prohibiting betting on outcomes that relate to the outcome of the performance of an individual minor (age 19 or below) in a sports betting event has sunk the century old tradition of punting on the foot races at the Stawell Gift, with the organisers of the event deciding that […]
Despite our half-hearted efforts yesterday we were unable to draw any information out of the team Yole lawyers regarding the mail about TasRacing going to the Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent he and his boys from racing this weekend. It didn’t matter in the end because we sussed the truth of it from […]
A few days ago, I was playing a game of Words With Friends and put the word “GRAMS” down on the board, using my letter “S” to reach the Double Word spot and get 20 points. My worthy opponent then added the letters P-I-C-O to spell PICOGRAMS and burn me with 40 points! I thought […]
In all the excitement about the Chariots of Fire, perhaps the greatest race in the past decade, the two Group 1 qualifying races for the Miracle the Allied Express Sprint and the Cordina Group Sprint (formerly the Schweppes) have been largely overlooked and undersold, as have the three heats of the blue riband G1 classic […]
Do I have to catch you outTo know what’s on your mind?Well, Cleopatra died for EgyptWhat a waste of time White ones and red onesAnd some you can’t disguiseTwisted truth and half the newsCan’t hide it in your eyes RACE 5 – LORD MAYOR’SCUP (G3) PACE (2130MS) General: Stewards completed the adjourned inquiry into the […]
It’s no secret that WA drivers Gary Hall Jr and Maddie Brown are partners in their personal lives, which is why that when Hall does something in a drive on track that advantages Brown to the exclusion of everyone else it attracts so much scrutiny and why people are wont to question Perth’s leading driver’s […]
We have said it before and we will say it again. They do things differently in New Zealand. We’re not talking here about Orchestral, the 3YO filly who is $1.50 favorite to beat the boys in the Derby. What we are interested in is the 2nd starter Irish Whisper, a filly who has had one […]
I’ve been a racing man for almost half a century now, and never in that half long life have I seen a filly start as the 2-1 on ($1.50) favorite in a Derby, not in the southern hemisphere anyway. Not until now anyway. The superstar filly Orchestral at this stage looks like being the first. […]
Why on earth did the Stewards waste their time and put undue pressure on James Orman by inquiring into this ride? What the hell could they possibly have imagined that Orman did wrong? Putting a horse on the fence at the mile mark of a middle distance race run on a tight turning track is […]
