Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Dazzle and Darby Munro winning at Menangle in 1934. This is the same site used now for harness racing. https://twitter.com/Bcollsyd/status/1678926984477544448/photo/1
‘Naked truth’: inside Finland’s sauna culture In the sauna there are no classes, professions and no signs of wealth. These levelling instincts are embedded in the very character of Finland. By LUKE SLATTERY A Finnish sauna cabin. On my first night in Helsinki I went looking for the secret to the Finnish character and found it in […]
This is hot off the press from Lucky Lingard’s ever excellent letsgohorseracing.com.au website. Is it true? We don’t know. But we have been hearing rumors about a split in the Godolphin camp for some time, so part 1 at least seems likely. We prefer not to write about Tony Gollan at all because we don’t […]
Some months ago we wrote extensively about what we, then and now, considered to be the unlawful and utterly unjust removal of Director Sharon Cimarosti (pictured above) from the board of Harness Racing South Australia (HRSA). At the time we described it as a travesty, and warned that it would not end there. We were […]
