Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Group 1 Fanta Bale is the 2nd best staying series on the Victorian greyhound racing calendar, and is a race that is only won by the cream of the nation’s long distance running dogs. That makes Palawa King’s win last night in a semi-final of the series all the more outstanding. Have a look […]
Race 1 – Frankie Ferocious There are very few pacers that can cut out splits of 27.4, 28.8 and 27.1 from the front in a race, and then run home their final quarter in 25.8 seconds. Leap to Fame is one who springs to mind, but who can name another? After last night we all […]
The New Zealand standardbred yearling sales kick off today at Karaka and it shapes to be a cracker, with a catalogue filled full of quality bred, well-related youngsters from beginning to end. What’s striking about it otherwise is that there are only 7 stallions out of 13 with entries in the sale that have sired […]
Jason Grimson is just too good for everyone else at the moment. Last night at Menangle, Grimson had 8 starters in 6 races. He won 4 of them, training the quinella in two where he had dual starters. Grimson’s other pair finished 3rd and 4th. Both were big runs. 7 of the 8 runners had […]
Trot trainers don’t pluck a horse from Jason Grimon’s barn and make it better. It’s unheard of. That’s what Grimson does to others, he doesn’t have it happen to him. Or he didn’t anyway, until the wonder kid Seaton Grima rode into town and did it. Grimson couldn’t train Firefox to win a single race […]
If last night’s Albion Park stewarding is any indication, the current disenchantment-driven malaise in the QLD racing integrity ranks appears to be a virus that has spread like a web across all three codes. As at the gallops and greyhounds, far too few pre-race samples were taken from horses running at the meeting on which […]
It’s very rare in modern Australian racing for a filly to be set for a Derby instead of an Oaks, and the ones who do run against the boys in the 3YO classic is so small that you could could it them on literally two hands. The Kiwis do it different, or at least Orchestral’s […]
It’s not quite unanimous – Brad Davison is sticking up for the jock – but Willo’s ride on Jimmysstar at headquarters yesterday was absolutely ridiculous, a total misjudgment of the horse, its opposition, the pace and the race. Williams should never have been leading on Jimmysstar. I don’t care which way you cut and spin […]
Just take a look at this start of the 6th race at Albany in WA on Friday night will you? The horse named Hope in the purple and yellow colors wheels around and breaks through the tape, but instead of calling it a false start which it is, the starter lets them go. As a […]
Further to the TAB outage, it seems that Tabcorp have now backtracked on affected punters having to put in a regular claim form, which could take anywhere up to 12 weeks. In its place the they have know implemented an even more ridiculous process that will preclude many older people who are not tech savvy […]
