A Very Good Question Indeed
HI ARCHIE, WHY DIDNT STEWARDS CHECK EMMA STEWARTS TREATMENT BOOK FOR OTHER BREACHES? ANOTHER REASON NOT TO PUNT ON TROTS.OBVIOUSLY THIS IS NOT A ONE OFF GREG FROM GULGONG
Whoever Said Trot Driving Wasn’t Dangerous?
This is race 7 at Eugowra. You can’t quite work out what happened, but it’s a miracle that no-one got killed. No-one except the punters who backed the horse getting the 1-1 run from $101 into $4.40. It’s a case of ouch, every which way.
If You Were on the Leader and Didn’t Cry, Then You’re a Better Person Than Me
This is an absolutely terrible watch pic.twitter.com/SWTsGLDaqG — Archie Brookes (@brookesbldstck) September 24, 2023
How Can You Have Integrity in a System Where an Integrity Board Member’s Wife Owns Horses Trained by Multiple Drug Cheats
See the Mrs S. Williams in the ownership of the horse pictured at top? That’s Sue Williams. Her husband is Brent Williams. He is a member of the NZ Racing Integrity Board. They are the organisation responsible for policing integrity in harness racing in Aotearoa. The crew that employ the racing Stewards. Trainer CD Edmonds […]
Smoke and Mirrors, Glitter and Gold – The BRC Annual Report
If you read this year’s Brisbane Racing Club Annual Report you’d think that all things were shiny and rosy. I guess they are, if you consider these things all shimmering and white: $8.4 million increase in expenses $1.9 million decrease in net assets $7.7 million increase in net liabilities $1 million less in cash $7.7 […]
The Stooge Merchant Called the Canary
See this horse purchased for $25 000 at the yearling sales in Auckland last year? It is the same one being syndicated here for $120.00 per 1/1000th share by the Canary, a stooge merchant named Andrew Fitzgerald who runs an unauthorised syndication company called Off N Racing. https://www.offnracing.co.nz/product/124/lot-44-father-patrick-daenerys-targaryen/ That price values the $25 000 horse […]
A Kid Going Places – A Smoken Ace
Former New Zealand trainer/driver Kyle Marshall’s incredible run of success since moving across the ditch to Australia continued on Saturday night when his smart 2YO Smoken Ace came 4-wide from 2nd last to brain his rivals in the last race at Melton. The win took Marshall’s winning strike rate to a quite incredible 41% for […]
The Definition of Wishful Thinking
This is a Facebook post published by the Ipswich Turf Club at 10.00 on the morning of the day of the races last week. The races that were cancelled. It was a hot day as predicted, and the track should have been good. No doubt it would have been too, if it wasn’t stuffed. If […]
Alicia Harrison Pulls the Magic Man’s Pants Down
Maurice McKendry was a wonderful driver over a long number of years, but all roads end except those to nowhere and I reckon his has. The man they call Magic drove the dual NZ Cup winner Copy That in a race that he should have won at Alexandra Park on Friday night, and got it […]
Bruce From Bathurst Raises a Few Questions About Gold and Guitars
Hey Archie I was interested in your thoughts on Tamworth R9 yesterday which was trifectad by Summit. I found it odd that Tom Ison on one of the two fancies would hand up to an outsider in Joes Redemption given the lack of a sprint lane at the venue. Summit owns both the horses but […]