Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Your author, 2nd from right, collecting a Group 1 trophy at Alex Park back in the days when the world was wide. Which was only about 4 years ago. There are eight races on the card at Alexandra Park tonight. Four of them are trot races, three from discretionary marks off the stand. Of the […]
Times are tough all round at the moment, so rather than send you out on a day at the pub on the punt, we will just let you spend the day with the trouble and strife and the tin lids by giving you three winners instead. FLEMINGTON Race 6 no 8 – Mostly Cloudy This […]
I may have been slightly hasty when I earlier declared Leap To Fame to be the best pacer that I had ever seen, It was because I forgot the Bulldog. Bulldog Hanover. World record holder for the mile at 1.45.8 Pacer of four of the nine fastest race miles in history, including six victories in […]
My goodness it’s hard for punters to win at Grafton. Just look at the winners yesterday on Cup Day, and stare agaze at their flucs. Is it any wonder that bookies like D.T. Crimmins drive Rolls Royce’s to Grafton from their mansions by the sea? With results like these, not at all. ————————————————– R1 – […]
Leonard (Len) Robert-Smith is Bad Boy Benny’s dad. Ever wondered why Bad Boy Benny seemed for so long to get the inside run? Here is your answer. It ain’t what you know, it’s who you know. Until it all falls apart. Major General Leonard William Roberts-Smith, RFD, KC (born 25 October 1946) is a former Justice of the Supreme Court of […]
Over the past week I have spoken to or emailed dozens of really good judges of the trots, and every single one of them – even the once crazed Popular Alm fans – tell me that Leap To Fame is the best pacer they have ever seen in their lives, bar none. We are talking […]
Reg Fleming, the greatest trainer there never was Re: Cummings. I think Reg Fleming is a genius. Nigel Blackiston is still battling along, and Leon Corstens could never get the mix right once he departed the kennel. Never thought it had much to do with the Cummings really at all. And I grew up next […]
What can you say hey? The starter at Bathurst hooked the start of race 2 to advantage his two runners in the race. He backed them both, the winner more than the one that ran second. With the advantage given by his cheating start. If the NSW integrity team don’t act on this one they […]
Michael Boots is as Australian as a koala, or Vegemite, or a baggy green cap. There is no Kiwi in him, and you will never see Bootsy in a black jersey. He’d rather cut off his left nut. Andy Ellis, Kieran Read, and Dave Hewett wear nothing but black, from dusk to dawn and then […]
Do you remember the race at Bathurst that we told you about on Wednesday night? The one in which a whole lot of runners were inconvenienced at the start. How Can This Possibly Be a Fair Start? You know, that race that should have been a false start? This one. The race in which only […]
