Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hello Archie All credit to Lauren Tritton for winning the big Group 1 in Ohio. What an achievement. She was the first female to drive in that race as well. I don’t think there have been many, if any, female drivers competing at that level in the US, we are way ahead of them in […]
Oh for the love of Pizza! Wiremu Pinn won 180 races in New Zealand including a Group 1. That Group 1 win was in the Otaki WFA Classic aboard Merv Butterworth’s grand but injury plagued galloper Marscapone, who at his two starts prior to the G1 win had run placing behind Levante, Entriviere and Roch […]
We are told by the QRIC that it wasn’t the Stewards who originally cleared Robbie Fraehr to ride after his fall in race 3 at Barcaldine, it was the ambos. That may well be true, but the ambos aren’t in charge of things on race day, the Stewards are. They make the call, and they […]
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Another great story from the Asian Racing Report, who have no skin in the game The most damaging war Victorian racing has been fighting has not been with Peter V’landys, writes Bren O’Brien. Victorian racing is often in outright revolt. Such is the nature of an industry which has over 15 stakeholder groups with competing […]
Jockey Rajiv Maragh seemed headed for certain victory as his 3-year-old colt Al Basha thundered down the stretch at Belmont Park on that May afternoon in 2007. But just before crossing the finish line, Al Basha suddenly spooked and turned sharply left. Maragh fell from the saddle, getting kicked in the head on his way […]
Yeah, bye Silvio. See you in hell. Silvio Berlusconi was one of the most corrupt world leaders of the past half century. He was a bad, bad man who bought everything that he ever saw and wanted, even the Prime Ministership of Italy, which he held three times and used like a shark to prevent […]
The Asian Racing Report is the best racing publication in the world. It has brilliant writers, and they produce brilliant stories. This from October last year is one of them. In these dark days of cuts to prizemoney in Victoria it tells a story that everyone needs to hear. A second-tier global event or a […]
Who won the last 5 Cups? Who rode them? You have 60 seconds to answer. No Googling. Yeah. See what I mean?
Six months ago Andrew ‘the Canary’ Fitzgerald, the mastermind behind the Off n Racing syndication rort, was declaring that young trainer Regan Todd was a genius, the rising star of South Island New Zealand harness racing. Now he’s running around telling people that R. Todd is a drunk. It seems a bit of a strange […]
