Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Shane Larkins started his Stewarding career in Christchurch, New Zealand. He crossed the ditch and moved to HRV as a Steward, and then went on to take up the role of Chief at the trots in Tasmania, a thankless task if there ever was one. After that he went back to HRV as Chief for […]
I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count up how old trainer Tony Peacock and his stable driver Brian Gath are. I think if you counted backwards you’d up somewhere around the time that Ned Kelly was hung. Peacock and Gath are no Neds. They are too smart to end up on the end […]
Whatever you do, don’t ever back a winner of the Magic Millions 2YO at Ballarat in the Classic at the Coast. In fact, don’t back them ever, for with the exception of one Tony McEvoy trained Adelaide specialist, they are all bloody useless. Cusack (2021) hasn’t won a race since Ballarat. Last time out he […]
Number one issue – we need a Code of Conduct, and we need it urgently. Now we are a sport Greg, and there are three pillars to sport: fair play, integrity, and doing your best. I’m worried about integrity, really worried about integrity. I want to make it very clear to everybody that I am […]
Have you ever met anyone in their early 40’s who has played for Australia in their sport, holds a Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering, a Master of Biomedical Engineering, a Master of Intellectual Property, and an MBA, and is currently completing a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance and Risk Management and a Master of Legal […]
Isn’t this little cemetery beautiful? It’s in the dead centre of Dili. Everybody’s dying to get in there. I won’t join the race. But it’s hard to argue with them isn’t it? If you gotta be dead, you might as well do it pretty.
The word on the street is that the QRIC are blaming the acting Chief Steward D. Aurisch for leaking us information about the internal restructure going on within the walls. Former Commissioner Ross Barnett once blamed internal leaks from QRIC and from the QPS (QLD Police) for stories I wrote about the organisation under his […]
The NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club – Addington – made an operating loss of $808 000 last year, despite cutting costs by $4.3 million. Incoming revenue was the problem. It dropped by a quarter, or $6.5 million. The $1.2 million decline in race day revenue and the $3.4 million loss in catering revenue were a result […]
On 19 December 1997 the Noel Taylor New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame Museum was officially opened at Alexandra Park by its benefactor, the late Noel Taylor. Mr Taylor, who was President of the Auckland Trotting Club from 1984-89, totally financed the 500 square metre building. Efforts to get a trotting museum up and running […]
42.8! That’s ridiculous! A ridiculous lead time. That is the fastest for trotters by a furlong, and these are 2YO Fillies! Dan Milecki wasn’t wrong. Brad Williamson went mental in the Group 1 Breeders Crown 2YO fillies trot on the Kiwi Aroha Kenny (it means Love Kenny, which it’s driver didn’t). He took the favourite […]
