Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
That’s one on Yole’s horses right there, about to be fed to the hounds. Ben Yole is Australia’s best trainer, or at least that’s what they say. They say that Santa Claus is real too. I believe that a whole lot more. The truth is that Chainsaw is a bum who couldn’t train a pig […]
Daz may have lost his looks over the past 15 years, but the nugget can still train and drive. Linda still loves him too. The poor thing. Age doesn’t weary either of D.W. Graham or me. Or not at least not him anyway, The Dazzler proved it on Saturday night at Albion Park, when he […]
Bill Vlahos is probably the biggest racing scammer in Australian history. He stole almost $18 million from investors in his so-said punting syndicate. I say so said because Vlahos never punted at all. The whole thing was a lie. It was a Ponzi scheme. Vlahos made it all up. A Ponzi scheme is an investment […]
See the bloke circled in red? Shane Wirth. He was a local lad who played for Norths with my mate’s brother. Later on he went to Banyo and Sandgate High Schools, probably getting expelled from one to end up at the other, as kids from our side of town used to do back then. It […]
I have been telling your for a year and a half that Sharp ‘N’ Smart was a champion, from even before he had his first start. Well it turns out I was right. Now it’s official. In a vintage year of New Zealand racing and racehorses, Sharp ‘N’ Smart is the best of them all. […]
A place for everything, and everything in its place. This durable dictum, most often attributed to prolific polymath and American forefather, Benjamin Franklin seems, on face value, to represent a truism simplistic and self-evident by nature. In spite of initial appearance, however, this plaintive platitude, this fundamental cliché has confused and confounded its adherents in […]
You have to admit, integrity management of racing is in excellent hands in Queensland at the moment. G-G-oondiwindi has moved to Toowoomba, where the outstanding Chief Steward on the Darling Downs Crayons Warren has got things totally and utterly under control. Toowoomba itself has vanished, but it was never that good a joint anyway, so […]
Archie Is it true that Menangle Park closed the bar after the last race on Eureka night with a 10, 000 crowd on hand? And is it also true that the thirsty crowds descended on the nearby club owned Menangle Country Club only to find it also closed? I really hope it’s not true, but […]
No doubt the harness media who are on the payroll of either HRV, or certain trainers, owners or breeders will wax lyrical about the Emma Stewart stable getting 27 runners in the 72 horse fields for next week’s rich Group 1 Breeders Crown finals, and for sure they will be acclaiming her 9 wins in […]
I backed Cronulla against the Roosters last night, and was cursing Nicho Hynes for almost the entire last 10 minutes. How does a Dally M winner get 2 field goal shots charged down when he had all day to fire them? Because he erred on the side of caution and spent too long thinking about […]
