Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You can see the Steward report about race 2 at Townsville yesterday. Now look at the race. And tell me that Amanda Thomson didn’t ride this second placed grey horse the $1.80 favorite dead. Puh-lease. Gimme a break.
You’ve read the official report about race 7 at Albion Park yesterday at the top of this story. The Chief Steward Steve Shinn – a former top level trot driver who once steered Pure Steel, and a man well known to be partial to a bet – allows the cousins Nathan Dawson and Pete ‘Noddy’ […]
Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock have been racing horses in New Zealand for some time now in the Southland and Canterbury areas, buit have stretched their wings out to extend their operations further. The business partners now horses with major stables including the Mark and Nathan Purdon barn and that of Stonewall Stud’s trainers Steve […]
February 27, 2024 The time-honoured Cairns Amateurs Carnival will take on a new twist this year after celebrating its Sapphire Jubilee. Over the past 65 years, Cairns Amateurs has served as one of the state’s most iconic regional events under the auspices of the Far North Queensland Amateur Turf Club. With hundreds of thousands of […]
Sydney punter and former brothel owner Eddie Hayson has been arrested by NSW police over the alleged importation of 16kg of methamphetamine and 5 kilograms of MDMA. Police picked up the 55-year-old year-old on the Gold Coast on Tuesday morning where he is expected to appear in Southport magistrates court. Officers will allege the interstate […]
The following article was published on the ever excellent and incisive letsgohorseracing.com.au website run by award winning harness racing writer John ‘Lucky’ Lingard. I don’t agree with all of the sentiments expressed by Lucky’s correspondent Shane, but it’s great to see people discussing and debating ideas to promote and revive the popularity of one of […]
We often talk about trainers extraordinary winning strike rates on this site, but none we have ever seen match the numbers being recorded by English trainer Charlie Appleby and stable rider William Buick’s at Meydan racecourse in Dubai. Appleby is training winners to runners this season at the extraordinary strike rate of 44%, a figure […]
Ten years ago the then QLD Racing Minister Steve Dickson – the man who famously declared that QLD racing was half a furlong in front of the southern states – announced this worthy initiative to integrate young riders from Korea into Australian racing. Sadly like a lot of Minister Dickson’s grand ideas it faded away […]
Many in the racing industry are wondering how the Tasmanian based former Asian Racing Journal columnist Bren O’Brien has managed to fund his immediately prodigious start-up racing website the straight.com.au, and how he has obtained the funds to employ and pay a suite of staff that includes racing journalists, website designers, accountants, and admin workers. […]
RACING SYNDICATES AMONG BUSINESSMEN CEMENT FRIENDSHIPS AND SEAL DEALS That the rich and powerful approach the turf with cutthroat ambition is clear when Melbourne property developer Lloyd Williams confides that the only time he ever disagreed with his closest friend, Kerry Packer, was over a bunch of highly pedigreed hayburners. It was the late 1980s […]
