Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Another rumour currently floating around involves the Maryborough Harness Racing Club. It also involves a well known OAM (not Kevin Seymour, he holds a higher honour), and the Victorian Harness Racing Club, which at present is a harness racing club only in name. This whisper on the wind suggests that discussions are currently being held […]
There is word going around that former QLD Chief Thoroughbred Steward Peter Chadwick may not in fact be lost to the game at all, as previously speculated. It seems soccer is not all that appealing to him. The whispers are that he is in the frame for the Harness Racing Victoria Chief Steward’s job. Surely […]
Archibald Did Harness Racing New Zealand have to give the Cambridge harness racing club (Waikato-Bay of Plenty) money to pay the prizemoney for the The Race by Grins (editor’s note – the Grinner), after they club went cap in hand to them after they discovered that they couldn’t pay all the stakes money for THE […]
Murphy’s Blu Boy was the fastest horse in the world up to five furlongs, which is 1000m. But he couldn’t get two strides past that. This bloke looked like a bullet up the thousand. He won his Maiden on debut at Ipswich over 800m by 6.5 lengths, then won a 2YO over 900m at the […]
Here are three different calls of the Mark Coyne ‘Miracle Try’. I dunno who does this one, but have a listen. It’s ordinary. The next one is Ray Warren, who invented the name the Miracle Try. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154825472278696 The last one is Ray Hadley. This is one of the best calls I have ever heard. Everyone […]
First Kevin Seymour, now Dean Shannon (an old St Paul’s boy from Redcliffe may I add). Tabcorp cannot resist the might of Queenslanders. Especially ones that employ up to 1000 or more locals. We were told Tabcorp’s head office would be in QLD. That’s what they said when they conned their way into the retail […]
We wrote the story about Chinny Boom 5 days ago, declaring it a star. The mainstream media don’t pinch our stories do they? Much. Trenton Akers wrote this below on Sunday https://www.racenet.com.au/news/not-for-sale-freak-north-queensland-prospect-chinny-boom-is-brisbane-bound-as-owners-fend-off-offers-20221009 And then David Fowler talked it on Monday too. I keep telling you that you hear it first. Hope you believe me now. […]
Immediately following the declaration of correct weight starter Mr D Bannister approached Stewards and reported that the four runners drawn to the outside had started from incorrect barriers. Stewards immediately opened an inquiry into the matter. They questioned the Starter, Mr D. Bannister, Jockey J. Felix (RIVERINA DEMAND), Jockey N. Summers (FRAZZLED), Jockey A. Holt […]
Praise the lord that the Spring Champion Stakes was postponed on Saturday, for there was no way that our long range tip Sharp ‘N’ Smart could gave possibly won on that crazy sit on the rail, leader biased track. For a moment there a group of us who had been backing the budding superstar in […]
There are 32 horses entered to run in this weekend’s Caulfield Cup. Three trainer have more than half of them, 17 to be precise. Five trainers have 2/3rd’s of the field, 21 in total. Some are of course manipulating the weight scales. It is amazing what you can do off a 50kg minimum. Here are […]
