Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Golden Sixty’s regular ride Vincent Ho (pictured above) was given a 10 meeting suspension for supposedly sitting up at the finish on his mount in this race. It seemed tough. Ho is on the horse steaming up through the middle in the red and yellow colours. The Stewards found him guilty of failing to ride […]
Young trainer Cameron Ross seemed to have been terribly harshly treated when he copped a 17 month disqualification after one of his horses threw a positive swab to Dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory drug. Ross was a first offender, and stuffed up by nebulising his charge with Dexapent – a drug containing the substance – within the […]
Grahame Begg’s popular gelding Cardinal Gem also passed away yesterday after an accident on a walking machine. Multiple stakes winner, last competed at group 1 level. Condolences to his connections too. So tragic. https://t.co/8V6OdYnFuw — Damien Ractliffe (@DamienRactliffe) October 9, 2023 A week in which we should be celebrating all that is good and great […]
Three years ago shares in Pointsbet were being traded for upwards of $15.00. Today you just about can’t give them away, with the share price collapsing to just 76c. It’s no real surprise, given that the company has lost almost half a billion dollars in the past 2 years alone. All that spending on high […]
Betmakers is the company powering a vast number of the new corporate bookmakers we see popping up almost every day in the wagering market. It hasn’t made it successful. Companies are supposed to make money, not lose it. Betmakers doesn’t seem to know how. In the past 2 years the company has lost almost $130 […]
Multiple Winners Koala King 1979/80/81 Popular Alm 1983/83 Bag Limit 1987/88 Sinbad Bay 1989/1991 Desperate Comment 1996/97 Lennytheshark 2016/17 Multiple Winning Drivers 5 – Vinnie Knight 4 – Chris Alford 3 – Luke McCarthy, Brian Hancock 2 – Dexter Dunn, Brian Gath, Mark Purdon Winning Female Drivers Kate Gath (Caribbean Blaster) Amy Tubbs (Melpark Major) […]
The Victoria Cup – once known as the Winfield Cup, back in the dim, dark days when cancer stick companies were allowed to advertise their killer wares – has been a fixture on the Australian feature trot race calendar since 1975. Some great horses have won the race, with the honour roll featuring a who’s […]
Graeme Payne is a loyal employee of the Auckland Trotting Club whose job for 16 years until it was restructured used to be running the TAB at Alexandra Park. Payne was initially employed from 2005 to 2013 on an unsigned individual contract that paid him a miserly base salary of $45 000 per year for […]
This is Shani. She was from Germany and was attending a festival in Israel when Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered her. They then paraded her naked body on the back of a pickup truck around Gaza as people spat on and beat her. Never forget. pic.twitter.com/GIv1kUT6lv — PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) October 8, 2023 It churns your […]
This is a still shot taken at around the 7 minute mark of today’s hitherto excellent Daily Telegraph mini series about the Everest. It’s a monumental stuff up. That ain’t the 74 year old master trainer John Hawkes. It’s his son Michael. Oh dear Daily Telegraph racing editor Mr Ray Thomas. Son. What have you […]
