Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Until a few weeks ago this used to be the town of Maryinka in the Ukraine. It was a little town of 10 000 people. They lived in houses. Their town has schools, and shops, and churches, and parks and swings and slides. It had pretty gardens too. It doesn’t anymore. War. What is it […]
This is Maryinka this morning. Just weeks later. Putin killed it. Razed it to the ground. Scorched earth it is. Everything is gone. But where are the people? The children who played in the park on the slides and the swing. Are they gone too? War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it […]
What you see above is an excerpt from a recent Victorian Racing Tribunal decision in the cases of trainer/drivers Zac Phillips, Tayla Nicholson and Rob O’Connell. The guts of it is that Phillips had possession of a blood spinning machine which he used to extract 4 vials of blood from horses trained by he, Nicholson, […]
One of the reasons that I first started writing this website – perhaps the main one, other than to stay sane while my wife and I were providing 24/7 care to my parents while they were dying from cancer, to help them achieve their wish of avoiding hospices and dying at home – was to […]
Peter Chadwick was appointed as Chief Steward of Harness Racing Victoria toward the end of last year. He has been to less than a handful of race meetings since commencing in the role, and hasn’t chaired a single one. For reasons unknown, Chadwick went missing in action for most of February, and wasn’t seen at […]
Winton ‘Big Deal’ Veall is one of Cairns most colorful racing characters. What color exactly is up for debate. Last time we heard about Big Deal – an avowed fan of Frank Sinatra, and wannabe impersonator – he was at the Cairns Cup meeting squiring around a young lady of the night who was up […]
This might sound mad, and may well be, but with all due respect to Tony Gollan (not much), the greatest trainer in QLD is not he. It’s a young man who trains out of Rocky called Nick Walsh. This bloke is a freak. Have a look at his career stats at the top. Then have […]
It is very, very rare that you see a horse run 12.31 seconds for its first 200m, top the first quarter off in 25.41 seconds, go through the third quarter in 27.84, and still be able to sizzle home in 26.23 seconds to brain the best field of horses in Australia. In fact it is […]
Have it win and place. Doubles, trebles and all four. You can’t go wrong. And you won’t. The Kiwi form eats the Australian. And neither Legarto or Prowess will be running in the Oaks. Even if they did they wouldn’t get the distance down a well. Savacat will run the 12 furlongs on her ear, […]
Has there ever been a better Rugby League coach than Wayne Bennett? I doubt it. The incompetent idiots who reign supreme at the Broncos board room table must be Edgar Britting themselves. They just lost another 20 000 fans. And deserve to too.
