Have a Captain Cook at This
It’s the 2nd race at Lingfield last night, a hurdle. The leader Teddy Disco is $1.14. Have a look what happens. Have you ever seen anything like this in your life?
The Phil and Matty Show – Part 1 – Insight = None
A harness racing trainer injected a horse with vodka and then tubed it on the morning of the biggest trotting day of the year as he felt “behind the eight ball”, and just wanted to do his best. Phillip Burrows was disqualified from racing for 10 years by the Judicial Control Authority on Tuesday. The Herald can […]
The Phil and Matty Show – Part 2 – The Quote of the Year – Or Why Phil Burrows Should Be Banned for Life
Philip Burrows at age 51 is now a multiple convicted drug cheat, after pleading guilty yesterday to stomach tubing one of his runners on the morning of the NZ Trotting Cup, and being given a 10-year-disqualification for his sins. If after 20 years of cheating fellow licensees, owners, punters and the sport Burrows was going […]
What is Ben Yole Doing Getting Kids to Drive Steve Turnbull’s Clapped Out Old Float at 2 in the Morning? Overloaded?
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’s View From the Bush
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 […]
Keith From QLD on the A.G. Hunter Cup – He Loves It, But Says the Vics Don’t
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 […]
A Must Read – NSW Racing Appeals Tribunal Reduce 16 Month Ice Positive DQ to Nothing – A Decision That Will Impact on Every Code
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 […]
Age Shall Not Weary Them – But the Calories Will
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 […]
The $90 000 Fat Thumb
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 […]
Just What’s in That Western Australian Water?
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 […]