Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Apprentice Mikaya Weir must have been inspired by Ben Dorrie’s midweek call for Cyril Small to be inducted into the Queensland Racing Hall of Fame, for you’d swear she was doing a Cyril on Vo Rogue impersonation aboard Smart and Dapper in the 8th race at Newcastle yesterday. It worked too. Watch in wonder. All […]
Can anyone tell me how when we have relatively simple national racing rules that apply across Australia they can be interpreted so differently from State to State? I refer here specifically to the whip rule, and the disparate application of it by the Stewards in Victoria and NSW. Yesterday the Racing Victoria stipes outed rider […]
When Bernard Saundry was the CEO of HRV was when Ian McEwan was chair, and that was the era that HRV built the new 1000m tracks and closed a number of country tracks (not clubs) in favor of racing on the new bigger, better wagering turnover tracks. Denis Napthine undid that in his stint as […]
Don’t you just hate it when the connections of a beaten horse don’t lodge a protest, but the Stewards do? What hope is there of the same person deciding against themself on a panel of just two? Nil and Buckley’s is the answer, just as it proved after Steward B.J. Clark lodged a 4th v […]
What the hell is going on with the new mega multi-million track at the Gold Coast? They raced on it once on the 9th of December, and then twice in early January for the Magic Millions meeting, where quite a lot of questions were asked about the quality of the surface, particularly on the big […]
It’s difficult to know what to make of Sharp N Smart’s run for 6th place beaten 2.4 lengths in the Herbie Dyke Stakes at Te Rapa yesterday. Jockey Matthew Cameron rode the NZ Horse of the Year upside down, pushing him forward in the early part of the race to sit outside the leader and […]
The Hondo Grattan has been run and won, and now the first 4 placegetters are through to a berth in the $250 000 Group 1 Chariots of Fire, the premier 4YO pace in the Dominion. It’s looking like perhaps the race of the year too. The field so far is: Frankie Ferocious Don’t Stop Dreaming […]
The decision of a bunch of ignorant bumblebees decided to schedule the $1.25 million harness slot race in the window as New Zealand’s far more prestigious $1 million slot race The Race By Grins has left the race that was supposed to revive WA harness racing bereft of quality runners, and as barren as the […]
RWWA’s decision to transfer the scheduled Ascot meeting to Bunbury under its hot weather policy has caused a great deal of upset among trainers from the Perth area and beyond. These trainers are questioning the judgement of the principal racing authority in deciding that it was better to make horses travel 5-6 hours to Bunbury […]
As you see from the Stewards Report above, only 6 horses out of the 10 races at Doomben yesterday were pre-race swabbed, and only the winners tested after the race, making it 16 in all that gave a sample. The Stipes report always details the swab attendants and vets working at the meeting, almost without […]
