Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame is relocating from Alexandra Park to Cambridge. Hall Of Fame committee members voted unanimously last Friday to move the iconic museum’s exhibits to a new building which will be constructed as part of Cambridge Raceway’s extensive development programme. Given a notice to vacate by the Auckland Trotting Club, […]
https://twitter.com/mleppard11/status/1633408303106752512?t=VPJbeUo2sQr6XpbV0byHXg&s=03 Um mate, the picture was taken as the winner crossed the line. You’re 15 meters too early. Here is the real finish. It was a dead heat alright. Don’t you worry about that.
Gee, we must have a crystal ball or something. Didn’t we tell you about this two weeks ago? Like we keep telling you, you always hear it here first. ——————————————————– One of the Queensland summer carnival‘s pin-up races has been rocked after unbeaten Mark Currie-trained boom sprinter End Assembly tested positive to cocaine. News Corp Australia […]
This time last year the Aaron Bain/Summit Bloodstock owned pacer was running last getting beaten 116.5m in low grade races in the harness racing backwaters of Hobart. Fast forward 12 months and now the horse is suddenly being backed off maps into odds on and blitzing his rivals by almost 20 metres in roughly the […]
Most Australians over 18 who have ever been to a nightclub or disco have danced to the sound of New Order’s famous song Blue Monday. I can remember watching it on Countdown when the song was released. That was 40 years ago this week. Can you believe it? Gee I am getting old. I think […]
The Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings have been released, and as usual they are a load of palaver. Three Hong Kong horses – Golden Sixty, Romantic Warrior and Californian Spangle – head the rankings, meaning that the trio from the tiny pool of horses on the now Chinese-owned island are supposedly the best three gallopers […]
Racing Victoria remind me of the kid who packs his bat and ball up when you bowl him middle stump in a game of backyard cricket and runs home to mummy and says Mama those boys are mean. Or they would if it were not for one thing. We are not playing in the back […]
Just when you thought racing politics couldn’t get any murkier. It was industry gossip late last year that Racing NSW wouldn’t pay rich strapper bonuses, paid to the handler of the winning horse, if the winning trainer was licenced outside of New South Wales. The common reaction was, to paraphrase, ‘surely not?’, considering that for […]
Check this one out. It’s the last race at Menangle on Tuesday. There are only two possible chances in the race. One of them is the $1.20 favorite in betting Peaceful, the other is Jewel Melody at $3.50. The next closes horse in the betting is at $34.00. Jewel Melody beats Peaceful by a half […]
In what sport in the world are a bunch of largely unqualified officials left to decide whether breaking the rules to win okay or not? Mmm, Ben Johnson was juiced up on Stanozolol, but would he have won the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics if he wasn’t IOC Ian? Of course he would have […]
