Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Fab’s Cowboy is one of the most consistently successful bush horses in QLD racing history. He wins 1 race on average every 2 and 1/2 starts. That’s why he’s won 49 from 133. At age 11 needs just one more to enter rare racing air by cracking the half century. It’s turning into a bit […]
If you believed what you read or heard from the mainstream media you’d be convinced that Dan Andrews was going to lose his seat in the Victorian election tomorrow, and that his Labor Government was gone. It’s absolute bullshit. Andrews holds his seat with by an outright majority of almost 7%, before preferences even come […]
It’s a pretty lean day at the races todays and once that is screaming upset results, so we’ve limited our tips to six. I reckon there are a few winners among them too. Good luck, and have a winning day. We will. Gold Coast Race 7 no 1 – Juan Diva This mare can’t go […]
The debt-laden Auckland Trotting Club is almost down to selling the family silver but has struck opposition in its latest bid to demolish Australasia’s only harness racing museum to make way for parking. The ATC reduced its debt from $122million to $73million last month by finally completing its sale of a large chunk of land […]
Jamie Mackinnon runs a business in Auckland selling cheap watches to shops in Levin and the Mangere Town Centre under the banner of Olympic Swiss, even though most of them are actually made in Thailand and wholesaled through China, which makes you wonder about the Chinese developers who’ve got the rights to buy the Pukekohe […]
See the blokes on the far right in the crowd watching the first race at the Burnie trots last Friday night? They’re associated with the Ben Yole stable. See the man in the white long sleeved shirt? That is the Chief Steward Roger Brown, who is chairing the Stewards panel at the meeting. What is Brown […]
Ben Yole earns $11 in prizemoney for every $9 that the other nine trainers in the top ten earn combined, which is no surprise at all because Yole produces three times as many starters each week as the rest of them put together. Based on these numbers then, Tasracing’s seemingly crazed announcement to pour another […]
When Peter V’Landys cheekily suggested during the Victorian COVID-19 lockdown two years back that the Melbourne Cup should be run at Randwick every man and his dog poo-pooed him, quite rightly saying that the Cup is a Flemington race and that should never change. It is too, and it should always be run at headquarters. […]
Yet another international galloper has been scratched from racing in Victoria in a big race. This time it is the English galloper Without A Thought, who – like Durston in the Caulfield Cup – was the favourite to win the Zipping Classic being run at Caulfield tomorrow. During the repeated CT scanning taking process applied […]
