Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The veil of silence over the Emma Stewart stable’s admission that it administered a substance of some sort to two horses on the day of the Vicbred Super Series is deafening. The actions of the HRV Stewards is baffling, leaving a myriad of troubling unanswered questions. What the hell is going on here? How do […]
Australia’s weakness in the staying ranks has long been known, but it is getting worse by the day, as yesterday’s results in the G1 Metropolitan showed. Only 4 of the 15 runners in the race were bred here. They finished 5th, 11th, 12th and 13th. Each of these Aussie breds was born of a European, […]
The spring carnival hopes of NZ Horse of the Year Sharp ‘N’ Smart – who conquered Imperatriz to win that title – look to be in tatters after his inglorious run yesterday afternoon at Hastings to finish last in the Group 1 Arrowfield Stud Plate. It was an absolutely atrocious performance from the triple Group […]
How good are Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott going right now? Superb is the answer. They absolutely dominated yesterday at Randwick, with wins in a Listed, a Group 3 and two Group 1, taking home about $2 million in earnings for their connections. If that wasn’t impressive enough, in the 2yo races – which are […]
There are rumours swirling Victoria that a leading harness racing trainer from the north of the state may soon be in the news for a positive swab that might cause him a few problems. The trainer, a multiple Group 1 winner, is said to have thrown the positive with one of his horses to Levamisole, […]
How the hell can you go around perpetrating totally unnecessary violence on a horse – brutality even – on a horse and only get a $1000 fine for it? As you will remember Central QLD trainer Tim Cook did this above to a horse a few months ago. “Whack!” a backhander to the head. The […]
Punters aren’t allowed to bet on credit with online bookies, so why is Betr able to pay to pay on tick? That’s the question everyone is asking after the struggling bookmaker announced yesterday that it would not be paying out on winning bets in it’s 100-1 footy promotions until almost a week after the Grand […]
The big question on everyone’s lips at the moment is whether trainer Andy Gath will come to Queensland to chase a golden ticket entry into ID23 after his horse Outlaw Man smashed Captain Ravishing’s 2180m track record last night at Kilmore in the 7-Eleven Cup. Gath would surely have to be tempted after the 5YO […]
As predicted, Copy That won’t be coming to Brisbane after his connections yesterday scratched him from the ID23 series, leaving Simply Sam as the only Kiwi trained rep left in the once great trans-Tasman battle. Unless it can produce a miracle by winning a Group 1 at home over the next 8 weeks that horse […]
If anyone other than driver Michael Stanley can work out what he was thinking with his drive on Rock N Roll Doo in the Kilmore Cup then they are the next Sigmund Freud, for it was nothing but crazy. Stanley was driving the horse that many rate as the best stayer in Australia, so why […]
