Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
See the photo above of Chainsaw’s float that poor young Bronte Miller crashed and almost killed herself in at 2am on Monday morning on the way home from the Hobart trots? It used to be Steve Turnbull’s up in Bathurst. You can tell by the picture of Smooth Satin returning to the presentation area after […]
Mulga Bill is a column about QLD bush racing contributed by a great group of passionate Country Racing followers. Like Keith’s column, it is published unedited. On Febuary 25th racing kicks off in Mount Isa and Blackall with a huge crisis hovering over country racing in Queensland – a chronic shortage of Jockeys across the […]
This is the greatest race on the Australian calendar and not many of the greatest horses that have ever been on the track have not won it. Like the previous Grand Circuit races I’d go through the honour roll from my earliest memories but you can look them up for yourselves, I’m too angry. I’ve […]
Thursday’s spectacular night of racing at Albion Park should have been the week’s headline act yet NSW’s Racing Appeals Tribunal stole the show on Tuesday regarding a decision on Andrew Bell’s 16 months disqualification which dates back to a Dapto 297m event in December 2021. On the night, it was found that Bell presented King […]
Do you recognise the bloke on the right? No, it’s not the penguin, even though they do bear a remarkable resemblance. It’s Scrivo, former leading jockey Shane Scriven! Doing his his best Roy Higgins impersonation obviously. Scrivo is the apprentice school chief these days. They reckon he took some likely young prospects for a canter […]
So one night – or should I say early one morning, for the witching hour had come and gone – this sports punt junkie with more money than sense is still up betting like a lunatic in units of between $4736 – $10 000 on in-play match options in a Chelsea v West Brom Premier […]
On Friday night at Gloucester Park we had the rare privilege to witness what must have been the worst quality WA Cup in living memory, a race just like the Fremantle Cup run a fortnight before where three of the first four home sat 1-2-3 in the run over the staying journey, which is never […]
New Zealand driver Phil Burrows is due to face the music today for being caught doping one of horses Rakero Rebel in a race on Cup Day, ably assisted in his unlawful actions by no less that Matthew Anderson (aka Vanderklay), the disqualified fraudster, drug dealer and woman basher who was infamously supported by Harness […]
I suspect that it may be a while before we race at Alexandra Park again. This photo was taken yesterday. What a bloody mess.
Holzarte Vedaquais is a young trotter that Tim Butt bought out of France for $440 000 while on an all expenses paid by Harness Racing Australia ‘study tour’ and flogged to all comers with a pitch declaring it to be the next big thing. Butt said the same about the original horse that he wanted […]
