Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Gordon Banks and his cousin Marc Hanover have been great supporters of Australian and New Zealand harness racing for almost two decades now, and have poured a fortune into the local industry through their purchases of both yearling and tried horses. Gordon is also one of the most erudite people in harness racing, a man […]
Here are some extracts from last week’s story giving you our early predictions for the Soccer World Cup. We’re going alright at present. Australia will not win a game in Qatar, and unless a miracle happens they won’t even manage a draw. A first round knockout is an absolute certainty. Graeme Arnold is the most […]
Principal’s welcome My name is Jackson Dodd and I am proud to be the Principal of James Nash State High School located in the picturesque rural landscape of north Gympie. James Nash State High School is a large and welcoming secondary school campus set in native bushland, with over 1200 students from ages 11 to […]
Jackson Dodd is a school principal who is in the firing line this morning for sending highly inappropriate film clips of songs like My Angel is a Centrefold and Sexy And Seventeen to his staff as memos. God knows why he did it, or what he was thinking, but me thinks a sacking surely awaits. […]
Bill Clinton successful 1992 campaign run for US President was founded on a simple premise. It’s the economy, stupid. Everything revolves around the economy. If money is coming in hard, everything is sweet. If it’s not, then life’s a constant struggle, and running racing is too.. It is easy as that. Why then is Peter […]
What you see above is taken from the auditor’s report into it’s examination of Globe Derby’s finances last year, which in accounting terms ran from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022. The Auditor said that cash was a significant source of income for the club. But the club didn’t cough up with the receipts […]
Which former promising Brisbane apprentice was recently thrown off a plane home from a race meeting after rolling onto the aircraft blind drunk and then proceeding to make a pig of himself in full view of every passenger on board? I’m not going to name the bloke, other than to say that if you cast […]
Club officials used to act as Stewards way back in the dark ages when Australian racing began. It was a just a squatters sport back then, and the stipes were volunteers who gave their time to officiate at the races held on their tracks. But there was no official betting then, so it wasn’t that […]
You can’t be too hard on young apprentices for making mistakes, and if you back $2.25 shots ridden by one it’s a case of punter beware, but gee didn’t young Angela Jones stuff this ride up on the favourite Tick Tock Queen in the 7th at Doomben yesterday? It was a comedy of errors, except […]
We are pleased to announce that the new CEO replacing Dayle Browne at Harness Racing Victoria is a man named Matt Isaacs. Isaacs – a graduate of Sydney University who finished dux in his MBA year – is from a retail background, and spent the earlier part of his career in management roles at Coca-Cola […]
