Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Saturday is the last day of the 2023/2024 country racing season, which means its the last day that the great bush hero Fabs Cowboy will ever step out in a race. The question is, which racecourse will he be bidding us all farewell from? Longreach had been the mail all week, so much so that […]
It just wouldn’t feel right if we went a day’s racing in Queensland without something going wrong. Yesterday it was a winner being incorrectly declared a scratching. Who knows just what it might be today? An elephant will probably escape from the circus and win at Ipswich. Oh no, that can’t happen. It’s too far […]
Readers View 1 Re Fabs Cowboy. It was only nominations. I guess todays weights might tell the story. Or Thursdays final acceptances will. Stella from Sandy Creek Readers View 2 The Longreach race is a plate run at set weights, therefore ratings are irrelevant The race at Charters Towers is a handicap, therefore ratings being […]
A new German equine welfare law prevents the training of horses under 30 months of age, reports The Owner Breeder, though an exemption is currently in place for Thoroughbred racing. The exemption requires a physical and psychometric assessment both before the 2-year-old racehorse goes into training and within two weeks of its first start. That exemption […]
Here is an article about the budget estimates hearings today and other integrity matters, penned by an anonymous QRIC watcher who was keen to share with our readers their views. The views contained therein are those of the author, not ours. Although we share a number of their sentiments, we don’t agree with them all. […]
At the risk of being branded a PVL cheerleader, this sheer amount misinformation being circulated by racing industry participants such as form analyst John Walter can’t be allowed to pass without correction, for it poisons the proposed sale of Rosehill debate. Here is the truth about money owed to Racing NSW by the Australian Racing […]
Australian Turf Club Funds generated from a rezoned racecourse (sale of Rosehill) with a Metro Station would secure the financial future of the ATC into the next century Sale would allow creation of 25,000 much-needed new homes Proposed sale of Rosehill offers unprecedented benefits for the entire community, not just racing The proposed sale has […]
This may not be the reason it is happening, but back when my mate was the harness racing bookmaker at the NZ TAB he told me a story about how the gallops guys at the TAB used to copy and past the Bet 365 odds (they were the first ones up back then), and how […]
Australia’s greatest gallops trainer (self professed) Ronald J.W. (Just Wins) Johnson, aka the Brown Rice man, had trained just 2 winners in the past decade coming into last weekend. To be fair to the master multiple Hay Gold Cup winning trainer however, he had only had 26 runners in that 10 years, so his strike […]
A new punter opens an account with Betfair. On the day he opens the account the punter makes six deposits of $3000 each, a total of $18 000. Over the next 12 days he makes 30 deposits totalling $100 000. A few days later he makes 12 deposits of $5000, adding up to $60 000. […]
