Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There are two contenders for the pacing Heavyweight Championship of the world. One of them is Copy That. The great champion touched down at Tullamarine on Wednesday night. When he got off the plane a very experienced horseman who was waiting on his asked Copy That’s handler who this magnificent thoroughbred was. He could scarcely […]
An analytical services plan, that will be more detailed than ever before, will determine the optimal number of samples to be collected in any given year. Urine, blood, saliva and hair will all be collected in a carefully targeted mix to ensure that the sample type that undergoes testing is the one best suited to […]
I had to read the QRIC’s media release announcing it’s new strategy to stop the drug cheats three times before I actually believed it. Swabbing the winners of every race is far too predictable the new QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard has announced. The cheats know in advance that if they win a race their horse […]
If at the age of forty-seven Ian French isn’t the oldest two kilo claiming apprentice in the world, then I don’t know who is. French hasn’t being legged up into the saddle to ride in a professional race for eight and a half years, the last time we saw him in action being at Mitchell […]
Sometimes in this racing life things happen, or – in the case I’m about to talk about, don’t happen – that render you speechless and leave you sitting there thinking if this is it, what’s that? Today was one of those days. 13 days ago the Chris Waller trained Durston raced in a 2000m Group […]
1 – Troy Walsh, trainer Nick Walsh’s dad 2 – Nick Walsh’s horse Age of Innocence 3 – Trainer Nick Walsh’s brother Nick Walsh is a baby faced kid in his 20’s, who has been training for less than 3 years. He is the new Ben Currie, a genius who can turn a slow horse […]
Shocking new information has come to light about how far the jigger boys from Birdsville will go to cheat, and how they do it, and why they don’t get caught. They are hitting their horses with Ice. Not the cold stuff, the Class A drug. Ice is the street name for Methamphetamine, or meth. They […]
It is only a little thing to most, but to journalists and racing writers it’s huge. Imagine if you discovered something that would extend your life by 10 years. It would be worth a fortune, and you would be rich beyond compare. Unless someone stole it from you, and became rich instead. Little shitty stories […]
My mate Andrew Rule is a great writer, much better than me. Rule is also a racing man, a real one, from a racing family. Which means he knows a whole lot more about jiggers than I do too. Here is how Rule describes it. Rule’s spot on. Not that I would know anything about […]
I was critical of Zac Butcher’s drive on the superstar Merlin at Alexandra Park last night, and told a couple of people so. To the three of them I say I was wrong, and to Zac I say that I am sorry. After watching it again (and again, and again, and ….) I can now […]
