Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How great it was to see Jason Bonnington at Cranbourne tonight. The poor bugger doesn’t look to be that well. I half wonder if he hasn’t had some health issues. But he was in his usual inimitable form. Anyone who loves the trots as much as my mates and I do is alright by me […]
Hot off the press news is that Nathan Jack’s horse truck has caught fire and burned to the ground at Clonbinane, near Kilmore on the way to Melton. Kingman wasn’t on the truck because Luke likes to travel him alone. Funny that. Nudge nudge, wink wink. Eye Keep Smiling was on it though, and so […]
Kingman is a Kiwi apparently. But Larry isn’t. Work that one out if you can. Menangle must be a new province of the South Island. Queensland is strictly Australia. I can fix that. Give all the horses dual citizenship. Then they can be like me. A blooody Kiwi mate. I will even thrown in a […]
Funny things are happening tonight at the NZ Harness Racing Awards ceremony. First of all someone has put up all the results up on HRNZ website when they are only half way through the presentation. That takes the excitement and intrigue out of things somewhat doesn’t. The buck always stops at the top. Brad Steele […]
The NZ harness racing awards are on tonight. Right now they are halfway through. But I know all the winners, even for the awards that haven’t been presented. It’s not because I am Nostradamus. HRNZ have stuffed up and put all the results up on their website before they are announced by mistake. Bet N […]
The driver of the winner of race 1 at Bathurst last night escaped sanction for what looked to be repeated breaches of the whip rule. In race 2 the driver of the winner was fined $200. They both looked pretty similar uses of the whip to me. So how come only one of the drivers […]
Just had some reports from on the ground at Tumbarumba. They are all saying that the 15-year-old kid caller Vini Donnelly is slaying them. He should be calling at Caulfield the good judges assert. Apparently he is a lovely young man to talk to as well. How good is he. Very is the answer. He […]
Darren Flindell called the first race at Rosehill a desperately close photo. He must have been watching a different race to me. The inside won clearly to the naked eye. It wasn’t even doubtful. Flindell must be going blind.
The sad mail drifting through this morning is that former star jockey Luke Tarrant’s appearance in the Caloundra Magistrates Court yesterday was on multiple armed robbery charges, of course drug related. You could see that train wreck coming a mile away. We are told Tarrant has been refused bail. Poor little bugger. Let’s hope they […]
Everyone’s favorite former Brisbane and FNQ rails bookmaker Haydn ‘Horrie’ Flynn turns 40 today. I am sure you will all join me in wishing Horrie a very, very happy birthday. May the sun shine on him always, and the winners fall like rain.
