All Hail The King
A picture tells a thousand words. A video tells a million. I have only 4 words to say myself. Wow! All hail the King!
All Hail the Queen
What I said about Larry I repeat for Keayang Zahara. Wow. All hail the Queen. The greatest female trotter we’ve ever seen.
TAB Blunder Costs a Horse a Start in a $10 000 Final
The $10 000 Stawell Toyota Pleasant Creek Final was the feature race on the Stawell program last Friday. To qualify for the final horses had to run in one of the two heats run as the first two races on the card, but here is where is gets slightly odd. Instead of having ten or […]
Someone Doesn’t Know the Rules – How Scary it is That It’s the Stewards
She’s Speedy was $3.30 in the betting when scratched at the barrier from the last race in Cairns yesterday. Every fool in racing knows that the horse’s withdrawal should have triggered deductions from the face value of the tickets for bets on runners in the race. The major bookies did. TAB and Ladbrokes took 23c […]
The Clash of the Titans
Right in between The Trot and The Race tonight is another clash of the titans, this time down south at Addington in what looks to be a match race between the best 3yo in the country Jumal and one of the top two 4yo’s in New Zealand in Got The Chocolates (Marketplace, who is not […]
Nude Tips
The Great Race/s
The top-shelf harness racing circus moves t0 Cambridge, New Zealand tonight, and what a night of racing it is. The Race (formerly by Grins, them by Betcha, and now by Sports Nation) is the headline act. And what a great race The Race is going to be. It is a three horse affair in my […]
The Dogs Aren’t Talking – They Are Shouting
All week the so-called experts have been carrying on about how superb the Penrith Panthers are, and how it seemed unlikely that any team could possibly beat them this season. Pshaw. That might have been the case in the pre-salary cap days, but it ain’t anymore. The salary cap has put an end to unbeaten […]
Happy Birthday Baby
My wife Maggie is 53 today. It’s hard to believe that she was only 23 when I met her. Where have the years gone? Who cares. I love her now as much as the day we met. She is still as beautiful too. Happy birthday sweetheart. You got me. Always have had. Big time. XXXXX
How Do You Get a Photo Wrong in the Digital Age?
I can understand a trainee starter mucking things up early in their career. We all do that. But how can a judge get a photo wrong in the digital age? It’s a good trick isn’t it? Only in Queensland.