Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The La Spina family’s home bred 9 starts and still unbeaten filly Lux Aeterna looked like a superstar from the moment she stepped onto a track, and yesterday when she won the Breeders Crown final at Menangle in time of 1.49.9 the 2yo with the Latin name for Eternal Light stamped that card correct. 1.49.9! […]
Freddy Taiba is one of the luckiest harness trainers ever to feed a horse in a barn. Most people wait a lifetime to get a champion and die with their dream unfulfilled. Not him. He lobbed an out and 0ut superstar in just his 2nd year of training. Sushi Sushi was his name. He was […]
Young driver Will Rixon copped a 14 day suspension for interference he caused in his drive on the $151 third placegetter Moltalbano in the $150 000 final of the Group 1 3YO Breeders Challenge at Menangle yesterday, and he got to keep his driving fee and prizemoney commission share. The bloke had been f**ked by […]
The Tenno Sho Autumn run over 200m is Japan’s best race for all comers, equal to the Tokyo Cup. Only top horses win it, superstars like TM Opera M who was the world’s highest earning horse ever at the time of his retirement in 2001; two-time Japanese horse of the year Symboli Kris S; the […]
Lou from Longreach provides us with the latest on the abandonment of the last 2 races at Charleville on Saturday. Please note that despite all the other Stewards reports from the weekend being up, at present there is no report for Charleville. As Gomer Pyle used to say, surprise surprise surprise. I have heard from […]
Extraordinary news is coming out of the Sydney ring this afternoon that all the funds in the Victorian Bookmakers Association Joint and Several Provident Fund have disappeared overnight in what appears to be a Ponzi scheme. The approximately $3 million that was in the fund had been invested in first mortgage business operated by a […]
More information has emerged about the scandal that’s erupting in regards to the disappearance of many millions of dollars deposited with lawyer John Adams in a first mortgage scheme, including all the money in the Victorian Bookmakers Association bet guarantee fund. It seems that the money was supposedly loaned out to homeowners who were short […]
We have written at length about the class advantage that the current crop of Kiwi fillies and mares has over the Australian female gallopers, and they proved it again yesterday with the wins of Prowess in the Crystal Mile and the imperious Imperatriz in the William Reid. I don’t know what makes these Kiwi gals […]
Just take a look at this drive by Brad Williamson on the favourite Perfect Potion at Wyndham a couple of weeks ago. You will never see as big a hook job if you live to be a hundred years old. Williamson has the fave perched beautifully 1 out and 2 back in the line, but […]
