Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
You wouldn’t have wanted to be on the favorite Dayu in the 1st at Caloundra yesterday at the 600m mark. At the top of the straight you would probably have been tearing your ticket up too. But oh how things can change in the blink of an eye or two. Whooshka! How’s that for a […]
The short commentary above about the drop in the price of a slot in the million dollar race at Mohawk says it all about why either the peak racing bodies – in the case of The Everest or the Eureka, for example – or the sponsors like Ladbrokes in The Protostar have to top up […]
This is the slow motion replay of the moment that Tim Tszyu got split open like an axed watermelon in his title fight yesterday. You wouldn’t believe such nothing sort of contact could create such carnage, and cost you tens of millions in future earnings would you? How unlucky could Tim Tszyu be? He was […]
The Michael Stanley trained $81 shot Soho Honey Rider won the $100 000 final of the Group 2 Bathurst Gold Bracelet on Saturday night, but if it hadn’t been for driver error by Zara Fitzpatrick’s dad Blake it wouldn’t have. B. Fitzpatrick had the leader and favorite Lux Aterna’s back on his brother’s horse Libby […]
The already seemingly golden season of superstar 2yo pacers had another contender for best in show added to its ranks when the Russell Jack trained Its Confidential brained its rivals by 31m yesterday over 1760m at Wagga, running final sections of 27.9 and 26.9 to record an overall mile rate of 1.54.2. That’s super time […]
After Carter Dalgety won the last at Addington on Saturday with a brilliant steer on Watermelon Sugar, the Trackside NZ commentator declared that he was the best young driver New Zealand had seen since the days of Dexter Dunn or Anthony Butt. It’s a proposition that’s pretty hard to disagree with based on his record […]
The last race at the feature Bathurst Gold meeting on Saturday night ended after 11.00pm. After that the trainers and their drivers had to attend to swabbing requirements, wash their horses down, load them and their gear onto their floats and trucks, take them home, unload the horse, stable them and make sure they have […]
The boffins at Racing Victoria very rarely get their big ideas right. For proof look at the now abandoned mandatory scanning of international runners in the Melbourne Cup; the now abandoned ‘race only 6 days a week’ policy; the now abandoned whip-free race meeting; the all but abandoned idea to build a new national peak […]
We wrote earlier about the rules being bent to allow Gary Hall Jr drive horses in races trained by others against his own horses that he trains, and here we have another example, again from Friday night. Gary Hall Jr’s (Junior’s) father Gary Hall Sr (Senior) is one of WA’s leading trainers. Junior also holds […]
