Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
South Australia 5-time Singapore and 6-time Macau premiership winning j0ckey Manoel Nunes, who is looking for a new professional base following the shutdown of racing in the Singapore, rode a double at Murray Bridge on his South Australian debut. Local star Kayla Crowther showed him what for though by booting home a treble. Over at […]
Major Moth had 28 starts for Australia’s leading trainers Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin. It won 13 of them. The fastest winning time it ran was 1.54.3. Last night Major Moth won under double wraps over 2138m at Albion Park first-up from a 9 month spell. It was the horse’s first start for its new trainer […]
This bloke eased up a wee bit early didn’t he? Those who backed the horse have nominated its jockey for Idiot of the Year.
This is the tongue of the topweight Namazu after the Townsville Cup, in which the horse put on a rodeo performance after 100m and took no competitive part in the race. Goodness me. Hasn’t he paid the price for being in a pig of a mood? A spell will do him good.
Yeah, yeah, before you get to say it I will admit it. I bagged the hell out of KO Racing for buying Maotai and syndicating it out to those keen to own a small piece of a horse. How wrong I was. Maotai looked like a really good horse when winning first-up at Flemington this […]
Champion New Zealand driver Blair Orange is smiling like a man who has just won lotto, and who could blame him? His son Harry has just won on Ilsas Girl at Alexandra in his first ever race drive. It was a pearler of a steer by the young man who is bred to be a […]
If you think the massive reduction to prizemoney for the Breeders Crown series announced yesterday is the only crack on the chin that Victorian harness racing participants are going to cop this year, then I’d suggest you think again, for the pain has only just begun. There is no alternative, for as we’ve been trying […]
The big losers from the decimation of the Breeders Crown series are Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin, with the pair set to miss out on millions of dollars as a result of the wholesale cuts to stakes. Tonkin and Stewart have dominated the Breeders Crown in recent years, particularly since the change in dates meant […]
Just a couple of weeks ago the Victorian Racing Tribunal upheld a 3-week suspension the Stewards gave small-time driver Michelle Wight for persisting to race three-wide on a $26 outsider, when there was no chance of her getting in. https://content.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/VRT-Decision-Michelle-Wight-11-July-2024.docx If that decision is the baseline, then Steve Turnbull should be given 3 months for […]
Back in the day missed, slipped or dead foals were called exactly that. Not anymore though. Now they’re called non-lives. How can we avoid being one of them? The answer would be worth trillions.
