Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If a harness writer is going to employ boxing metaphors to try and tell a story about the trots, then it would help greatly if they actually knew anything about boxing, or checked their facts. Marvellous Marvin Hagler and Tommy ‘the Hitman’ Hearns didn’t trade blows for 12 rounds in their 1985 fight – immortalized […]
Good Friday was for centuries the most boring day in history. No newspapers, no races, no footy. That was then, this is now. Now the most boring days are the two between the Derby and the Cup. First you watch the T20 and feel depressed after the Poms humiliate us, then you do your form, […]
What you see at the top is the official Stewards report for race 5 at Emerald TAB meeting in Central QLD today. Not content with jockeys hitting horses with jiggers – or perhaps as punishment for it – now they are giving jolts and volts direct to the riders themselves. I’m not sure if anyone […]
I like taking note of quotes from smart men too. In racing, they are generally men who can count. After all, it’s a game of numbers and percentages isn’t it? A reduction in turnover from $160 million to $60 million isn’t a loss of 60%. It’s a drop of 62.5%. A 60% reduction would have […]
The word out of the Brekky Creek bunker is that that the Stewards in charge of the swab attendants and the pre race swabs they took on Saturday last week at Magic Millions MK1 have had a wee accident. Scott Heidke is one of them, Kim Daly is the other. It appears that the pair […]
Have you heard about this nutcase new rule that the Rugby Football Union that run the game of rugger in Pommy land are introducing? Rugby players at all levels of the game under the professional level will in future only be allowed to tackle up to waist height. That includes all junior players, and ranges […]
We reported overnight about the appointment of Karen Lees to the position of Deputy Chief Steward in North Queensland. Now I want to tell you how lucky we are. I don’t think I have ever seen a better qualified or experienced Deputy in my 50 years of following the game. Lees ticks every box ever […]
How do the programmed conditions of a feature race get altered AFTER acceptances have been drawn? That’s not cricket is it? RocknRoll Nitro go beaten by just 3 meters in the final of the King Island Pacing Championship. With the extra 20m start he was supposed to get it’s fair to say that he would […]
Disgraced veterinarian Louis Grasso can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Just 18 days before he was set to begin a 50-month prison sentence for selling performance-enhancing drugs, Grasso was arraigned in a Pennsylvania court on Jan. 6 after authorities charged that he conspired with a casino employee in a scheme that netted Grasso $21,646. […]
With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm. (Chinese Proverb) CBRE are not just top shelf property valuation experts, they are the global leaders in the trade. They have valued the Auckland Trotting Club’s training complex and land at Franklin Park, Pukekohe as being worth around $31 million. The ATC claim that […]
