Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hi Guys, It looks like I now have to fight Qantas for a refund for my planned trip to Auckland Friday night. HRNZ in their mysterious way of thinking advised that it ‘is not in our interests to have the best horse racing’ so leave Copy That out of the field. The attached story tells […]
So the field of runners for the Inter Dominion Pacing Championship 2022 has been set, and here they are. We’ve put a red line through all the ones that can’t win, which is most. It leaves us with horses from just 7 stables as live chances. Six are from the Emma Stewart aka Clayton Tonkin […]
See the name on the bottom of the press release? Nicole Rowles. The new QRIC media officer. Up until December 2021 Rowles was doing freelance media consulting through her own company, and then up until she took the QRIC job she was working for an outfit called K.K.&O. Agency. One of her and KKO’s clients […]
I know that a lot of Australian readers get sick of hearing stories about Kiwi racing, but just like it was in the war our two countries are co-dependent, and the good health of racing of both codes in one relies on good health of racing in the other, and if you don’t believe me […]
There are many things you can say about John ‘Hollywood’ McMullen, and one is that no matter what the handicap was, he’d never weigh in light. Which is why it’s lucky that pacers and trotters aren’t handicapped by weight, for Hollywood would have never won all those premierships in the 80’s if they were. It […]
This is the Bolt For Brilliance, the famous Kiwi end to end and off and away Test Match nude run. How many Aussie streakers get the other end of the birthday suit dash without tackled or shoulder charged? Not many, if any. Brad Reid did. He bred the champion trotter that’s named after his seminal […]
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
We’ve managed to get a partial copy of the Globe Derby (SAHRC) annual report, and the picture is dire. The club has lost more than $800 000 in the past year. That takes it losses over the last 2 years to almost a million dollars. It has just under $1.8 million in cash, but owes […]
I steal David Walsh’s carpark at Mona Professional gambler and art collector David Walsh says the price of bitcoin may tumble to zero, confessing he is not a fan of volatile cryptocurrencies even though he believes blockchain technology has value. Mr Walsh, a mathematician and wealthy professional gambler who is part of a syndicate that […]
