Pop Quiz For Gallops Fans
There are 5 sires in Australia that have an individual starter to winner ratio, and a 6th one that misses by a whisker. I bet you can’t guess even 3 of the 6. The answers are in the story below.
Breeding Quiz Answers
The answers are. The answers are. Drum roll. Drum roll. I hope that was long enough so that you couldn’t see the answers in the preview. The answers are: Frankel – 27/50 Scissor Kick – 38/75 Maurice – 52/103 Brazen Beau – 55/110 Star Turn – 67/119 Real Impact – 54/110
Inconsistency is the SA Stewards Middle Name
It’s the protest that has the South Australian racing industry buzzing – and cost one punter a $30,000 windfall. The controversial decision by Racing SA stewards to uphold an objection in the opening race at Balaklava on Wednesday has a few layers and divided opinions. The Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle-trained Call Me Al beat […]
The Outrageous Stubby Holder Decision – Why the ICAC Needs to Be Called In (First Published January 2022)
Jason ‘Stubby’ Holder is South Australia’s leading jockey. He is also a liar, a trickster and a cheat. And he is a koala too, a protected species. On the 9th of December, after he had ridden trackwork at Morphetville, the Stewards asked him to come to their office at the track and provide them with a […]
More Honest Rob and Chainsaw Cheating
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Zac Lloyd Throws Down the Gauntlet to J-Mac – This Kids the Best QLD Apprentice That Sydney Has Ever Seen
Zac Ll0yd is a phenomenon. The wonder kid has ridden at 20 meetings since the 1st of March. Across that 20 race meets he has ridden 25 winners, and chalked up 6 doubles, 2 trebles, and 1 x four winners in a day. Lloyd is riding winners in the city at a strike rate of […]
Copy That v Self Assured? – Look at the Scoreboard – Numbers Don’t Lie
Copy That and Self Assured first met not in a race, but on a card, at Alexandra Park on 14 December 2019. They won separate races over 2200m, with Copy That running 1.6 seconds faster in his. It was a portent of things to come. The pair’s first actual race contest was in the 2020 Ashburton […]
Watch the Pegs
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Magic Mark and Bella – A Love Story – Brought to You By a Once Slow Mare and a Middle-Aged Beach Sand Kid
It seems that Mark Jones might have been doing a bit more than working his horses when he was spotted recently jogging up pacers on the sand at Woodend Beach, which it has to be said is some distance north east of his base at Burnham. Either that or Jones is a miracle worker, judging […]
Will the Punk Rock the House Down in Auckland Tonight?
The tip out of Auckland is the young gelding who made the incredible debut Punk Rocker is a certainty from the pole in the 9th race at Alexandra Park tonight. They say that the switch from the barns of Steve Reid and Simon McMullan over to the stables of Sheryl Wigg and the Invisible Men […]