Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The race meeting at Innisfail in North QLD this weekend is in grave danger of being scrubbed. At the close of nominations the five races on the card had the following numbers: 3, 3, 5, 4, 3. In QLD you need five acceptors for a race to go ahead. As it presently stands that means 4 […]
Our story earlier today about the Joe Pride/Belynda Kliese horse mix-up has sparked an instant reaction from readers. None of them are blaming Joe Pride. Here are some of their thoughts below. ————————————————————- Are we actually defending A couple who claim to have been in the industry since young children/teenagers now late 40s/50s and couldn’t […]
We have written extensively about horses connected to the McMullen clan recently improving their best times by huge margins, and here is yet one more example. Havetimetodream came across from NZ to join the Chantal Turpin/Peter McMullen stable late last year as a 4 start maiden with a best time of around 1.58.5 run on […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick has been fined just $5000 for his third breach of the substance rule in the past 12 months. Kendrick’s fine was for presenting his horse Savannah Gangster to race with the painkiller Meloxicam and the anti-inflammatory Flunixin in its system, the same offence that he was fined $3000 for in […]
North QLD trainer Belynda Kliese bought a 3yo bay filly named Dark Fae in an online auction. At the time of the sale the filly was trained by Joe Pride, who logic suggests must have been the person in charge of her. Dark Fae was sent north to the buyer by the seller. Or so […]
I live in Paradise, aka Port Douglas, creation of the international criminal Christopher Skase, village of dreams. He was a genius Skase. Crooked from head to toe, but a visionary nevertheless. He saw Port Douglas as the greatest place on earth before anyone did, even the First Australians who have no history in the joint […]
7-year-old pacer Martin Magic had won 12 races from 99 starts before being sent north to trainer Matt Elkins, the last of them a year ago in 2.01.0 at Terang, which was 8.4 seconds outside of the track record. The fastest the horse had ever previously won in was 1.58.2 at Horsham three years ago. […]
Power and the money, money and the powerMinute after minute, hour after hourEverybody’s runnin’, but half of them ain’t lookin’It’s going on in the kitchen, but I don’t know what’s cookin’ – Coolio The news just filtering in is that one of leading Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick’s horses has thrown yet another positive swab, […]
One of the more interesting racing cases this year comes to its climax tomorrow when the Supreme Court of QLD hands down its decision on the QRIC’s application for judicial review of the QLD Racing Appeals Panel decision in the case of a 13 day suspension handed down to Chad Schofield in January last year. […]
Have you ever seen two better games of footy in your life than the pair we saw today on Easter Monday. 84 712 people packed the MCG to witness an absolute classic between Hawthorn and Geelong. A see-saw affair where the lead swapped a million times, the noise of the crowd could be heard from […]
