Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The sudden split between Yabby Dam Farms and its trainer Anton Golino has set tongues wagging, with most of the speculation centering on a Golino blow up as the reason f0r the break up. There is always two sides to a separation though, so who knows? What is surprising is that Yabby Dam’s owner Pat […]
Born to Run is the theme song of the Carnival of Cups, which goes to show that the organisers of the event from HRNSW know as much about Bruce Springsteen as Chris Gleeson knows about clean racing. The song is not about standardbreds being bred to run, it’s about two desperate kids in a depressed […]
How hot is the streak that James Herbertson’s been on this week? Herbie drove four winners at Shepparton on Tuesday, two at Terang on Wednesday, three at Bendigo that night, and another three at Kilmore last night, to make it a dozen wins in just three days. Not even his granddad Mick Clover could do […]
You don’t see this every day. A racing authority advertising to employ a jockey. Thoroughbred Racing Northern Territory are doing it. This is not a bad idea to address a shortage of jockeys. Directly hiring and employing a rider and attracting them to the role by offering a guaranteed base salary of $1400 a week […]
Craig Williams is not the sort of jockey who usually rides carelessly. If anything you could usually say he was over-cautious, not under. Yesterday was the exception to the rule. Willo shifted in when not clear of the horse inside him, and caused it to get up on heels. It’s cost him 10 days […]
John Filardo is quite possibly Australia’s most unsuccessful driver. In the almost 25 years of this century Filardo’s had almost 900 drives, and won just 13 races. His record of achievement in the cart over the past 6 years is about exactly the same as famous Frankston racing identity Mandrake the Mug’s record on the punt […]
Eagle-eyed race watcher Coulthard from Coolum Beach has brought another T. Bailey stuff up to our attention, this one from race 5 at Sandown on Wednesday last week. Now I always thought that Smart Missile was a retired Group 2 winning sprinter who now stands at stud at Twin Hills, but according to the Saint […]
Mark Zahra might have had a good handle on the pace, if he was actually riding in the race. He wasn’t. Blake Shinn was on the leader. Terry Bailey once again gets the basics wrong. The Saint’s on fire. It’s time to retire.
See the race at the top run at Gloucester Park a fortnight ago? It’s what is called a Conditioned Race. The basic concept behind L5$ races is to give horses who may be struggling at their HWOE Level a chance to drop into a race where they might be able to earn again and establish […]
You need five horses turn out in a field in harness racing for a race to proceed on a harness race card. So WA trot trainer Greg Bond has the perfect solution to making sure that his two-year-old pacers get a run. He enters five of them in a race. Then when he sees how […]
