Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The 5th and last race at Longreach on Sunday was declared a no-race after the Stewards in consultation with the stater established that when the start was affected the barrier gates opened at different intervals and most of the field was disadvantaged . Fair enough too. Look what happened when the gates flew, or some […]
You learn a lot from great sporting coaches. About life, sport, success and yourself. Golden State Warriors NBA coach Steve Kerr is probably the greatest coach of any sport in the 21st century. He is also a very good and interesting bloke. It is well worth listening to what he has to say. Story by […]
What Steph Curry does on the court is more readily appreciable. How do you compare him with Jordan? He’s an incredible leader. Michael was an incredible leader himself, but it’s an entirely different approach. I mean, Steph’s compassion for his teammates, his joy in life, his joy for celebrating everybody else’s accomplishments is so powerful. […]
You mentioned the strong draft class. Can you talk about the challenge of drafting well? You can’t predict a guy’s personality. You can try. Our front office does these personality tests, we sit down and have lunch with them—but you don’t really know. You can’t. And you ask people, you ask their trainer, you ask […]
You’d say it was great winning the Ouyen Cup wouldn’t you, because it used to be a really good country cup race that attracted good class country pacers who were top of their league in regional trot racing. The race was always the best on the card, and befitting of the highest prizemoney. That was […]
The people in charge of running the QLD racing industry must be either masochists who enjoy feeling pain, or sadists who enjoy inflicting it on others, for what other reason could there be for some of the gallops programming decisions over the weekend? Do these people even know the geography of QLD, or understand the […]
Angus Garrard is driving the horse 3-back the outside in the red white and blue. Matt Elkins is on the horse coming around Garrard three-wide. Garrard comes out under Elkins illegally and cannons into him, sending him sliding sideways from the impact and causing his horse to break into a wild gallop and lose all […]
Archie I was having a night at Melton last night with friends. Sitting here with our 9 or so kids between us, and at the next table over out the front, there was junior driver with a dozen empty cans in front of him, talking to another participant, not sure who but had a B […]
Our political correspondent on the ground in the federal electorate of Farrar, Bookie Bob – real name Daniel T. Crimmins told you all a month ago that One Nation were past the post certainties to win the by-election to replace his political hero Sussan Ley as the local member. At the time the corporates and […]
The Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) were falling over themselves to get money from the State Government to build a new grandstand at Eagle Farm for their handful of members. Ministers and Premiers were lobbied, a PR campaign was run painting the new members stand as a life or death priority, and the public was all […]
