Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
John Brasch has wanted to be a caller since the time he could talk. I used to go up to the spare box that Wayne Wilson let him call in and sit and listen to him practice when we were kids. Johnny was good even then, but now he is great. He is the Paul […]
The Brisbane Cup is the greatest sprint race in Queensland, one of the greatest in Australia, and probably one of the best in the world. Look at the honor roll of some of the winners. Top Simbi, National Lass, Pretty Fearless, Whip Tip, Golden Fox, Whisky Bale, Flying Amy, Bogie Leigh, Mr Metz. Dyna Double One, Sennachie, Black Opium. Champions one and all. 15 years […]
QUEENSLAND Minimum Age – 42 months Grade 5 only. Penalties apply if breaking time standard. WESTERN AUSTRALIA Minimum Age – 45 months Masters Grades 1, 2 and 3. All wins penalty free when returning to non-Masters grades. NSW Minimum age – 48 months Masters Grades 1, 2 and 3. All wins penalty free when returning […]
Just like global warming with our earth withering away as the waters in the Atlantic Ocean get warmer providing fuel for bigger and stronger hurricanes and beach erosion bringing those waters closer to residential areas, only a very few are paying attention. Yes, things are fine in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky…and things are going well […]
A great mate of mine’s mum went to the great racecourse in the sky last night. Last weekend she backed a winner, a couple of them in fact. She backed a few during her lifetime. I remember back 40 years to a time when my mate’s mum was working two jobs, and sometimes three, to […]
Sharp ‘N’ Smart is deep in the running for the title of New Zealand’s horse of the year and if his trainer Graeme Rogerson’s winter impressions of him are correct, more elite gongs could await the rising four-year-old in the spring in Melbourne. Rogerson said from New Zealand last week that there are any number […]
The Chris Munce race day treatment inquiry has been left in an absolute mess. It is a train wreck, to put it politely. Munce had been charged and pleaded guilty to a race day treating offence. He was given a 3 month suspension, and appealed it. https://www.racing.com/news/2021-03-24/news-munce-found-guilty-of-raceday-administration#:~:text=The%20Queensland%20Racing%20Integrity%20Commission,He%20was%20also%20fined%20%245000. Then the Stewards ‘vacated’ the penalty, and convened a […]
None of the phone messages purportedly from Brad Elder to someone connected to Summit Bloodstock that we briefly published on this site are true. As we have discovered to our great embarrassment and chagrin, they are forgeries. We now believe – but can not prove – that the forgeries were produced by a man named […]
Jason Bonnington interview with Jake Webster of Summit Bloodstock. Is this Flannery character who works with them really a fit and proper person to be involved in racing? Nathan James Flannery used nine different email address and eight different phone numbers to relentlessly stalk a Cowra woman he worked with, even signing her up for […]
