Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Yesterday we predicted that the $540 000 in a fortnight mark up men KO Racing’s giveaway share ‘worth $1000.00s’ would be in one of its cheap used horse buys, and today we have been proven correct. The share is in the Bendigo maiden winner that we highlighted Celestial Harbour, which was purchased online by KO’s […]
If the rumors are right that Luke McCarthy is intending to take a crack at a new career driving in the USA after the Miracle Mile carnival, then he is setting himself a highly difficult but potentially lucrative path. Last year no Aussie driver – not Dexter Dunn, or either of McCarthy’s hitherto very successful […]
Caulonia Courage – name after a small village in Calabria that fought off the fearsome Turkish army during a siege in 1597 – was an average muddler from Mildura who had won 6 races from 47 starts until it recently left the stable of Vince Vallelonga and came to the barn of Seaton Grima, or […]
PARK LANE NZ– Caught wide in the early stages of the race, before being restrained into the running line. Approaching the 100 metres the sulky worn by PARK LANE NZ collapsed causing driver Chris Alford to gradually fall to the ground, Driver Chris Alford was able to pull PARK LANE NZ up. Driver Chris Alford […]
Bob Mahon is not a name that’s well known in racing, and probably for good reason given that he has only trained 16 winners from 267 starters in the past 10 years, most of them at the provincials. You’d never put his name up there with trainers like Annabel Neasham, Robert Heathcote, Kris Lees and […]
Leading Kiwi driver Blair Orange has been a little out of form this season, having recorded only 10 winners from 101 drives, which is well below his usual average strike rate, but he roared back to life yesterday the Forbury Park meeting at Oamaru (doesn’t that sound strange to say) by scoring a hat trick […]
Problem gamblers were significantly more likely than non-problem gamblers to have experienced a win the first time they gambled and to report that losses made them want to gamble more. Problem gambling was also significantly related to the size of an individual’s first win. That is, people that reported larger first wins were more likely […]
The APG Gold Coast yearling sale is on again this weekend, with 80 odd lots on offer for eager buyers willing to chase the much less attractive than before reduced $100 000 prizemoney in a sales race series for each sex limited to 2-year-olds, as opposed to the riches on offer for both 2 and […]
In on of the most intriguing races of the weekend on either side of the ditch, two of the big guns of New Zealand racing clash again on Saturday in the Aotearoa Classic over a mile at Ellerslie on their path to the Sydney spring carnival, with the 2023 Horse of the Year seeking to […]
Until last Saturday week Jason Grimson was the trainer of the 7YO pacer Firefox. Under his expert tutelage, the horse won 4 of its first 5 starts, but then it went off the boil and ended up racing (and winning) in a claimer in Melbourne. It won 2 more races after that, the last of […]
