Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This wasn’t a handicap start, just a stuff up. I’ve never seen anything as bad since Self Assured got the walk up start t0 beat Copy That in the 2020 NZ Cup. That one was deliberate, and saw the starter sacked the next day. (He is of course now the starter for HRV in Victoria. […]
Sir Jason Grimson and royal page boy Turbo Trainor were notable absentees from last night’s Menangle meeting, with both presumably still on the other side of the ditch celebrating Swayzee’s victory in the Cup and drowning their sorrows about their foiled fix odds price stooge plunge on Akuta on Friday. In the trainers absence their […]
Emma Stewart won 8 races from 10 last night at Melton, including 7 of the 8 Breeders Crown semi-finals and the 4YO Mares final. In fact the only 2 races she didn’t win were the 4YO Entire and Geldings Final and the second semi final of the 2YO Colts and Geldings, the former because her […]
Queensland’s integrity boss Shane Gillard has spearheaded a new plan to catch dopers and cheats in the racing industry. In the past, the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has sometimes been accused of not doing enough to stamp out wrongdoing. More than two years ago, a group of frustrated Queensland trainers spoke out with their concerns that cheats were […]
Well so much for the QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard’s grand plan to use an innovative swabbing regime to crack down on drug cheating in Queensland racing. There were 10 races at the main Sunshine State metropolitan meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, with an average of $95 000 prizemoney on offer in each. Only 6 […]
Why on earth was the 2nd best track in Australia at Caulfield displaying such an on pace, lanes 1-4 fr0m the rail bias today during a beautiful period of fine weather? It was nuts. So are the modern methods of track managers. As a punter all you want to do other than back winners is […]
Hedley Thomas is a good bloke, even if he does keep normal hours and gets annoyed by 2.00am texts and calls, claiming that he’s sleeping even though it’s only lunchtime. He is worse punter than me too, the thought of which always brightens me up at the end of a bad day. At least he’s […]
Sir Jumping Jason Grimson got the biscuits with Swayzee in the NZ Cup on Tuesday, much the chagrin of almost every harness racing person in the country, but there’s an old saying about not pushing your luck too far, one that Grimm0’s posse has obviously never heard or heeded. On Friday the Sir G-crew’s ignorance […]
We wrote the story above early this week. The Courier-Mail finally caught up today (below). You always hear it here first. https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/qld-politics/george-street-beat-was-premier-unwise-to-defy-union-boss/news-story/3f45dbd0ef65232a9a1a4328880e59f7 The wisdom of Annastacia Palaszczuk’s declaration she doesn’t need the support of union powerbroker Gary ‘Blocker’ Bullock has been questioned by her colleagues. Amid revelations unions were polling Queenslanders on her performance, GSB […]
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