Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
…. mushroom or pepper sauce is what you put on a steak, which is preferably cooked medium rare. Your new trotting stallion’s name is On A Streak. Which judging by your promo material you are clearly not. Never mind. It’s all just a dead cow to us. And no-one down here has really ever heard […]
I have to apologise to anyone crazy brave enough to follow Merv’s tips, for I got it wrong. It was race 3 no 1, not race 1 no 3. It didn’t matter though. They both lost. Merv 34, a winner Nil. One day the drought has to break. I just hope that we are all […]
Do you remember how last year the QLD Premier and Racing Minister promised us that reforms to the Racing Appeals system would be implemented in the first half of 2022? No more gaming the system on stays they said, we are going to be fair dinkum from hereon in. Oh yeah? Really? We are still […]
Some wag sent in this snap of the top three in the weights in the first at Caloundra. They claim it answers the mysteries surrounding the fight last night at the Ville Casino. I can confirm the following. 1. Yes, that was how the fight ended. 2. No, her name was not Diana. 3. No-one […]
Everybody’s favourite tipster Swervin’ Mervyn in New Zealand at the moment, which might seem a very strange place to travel to in winter when you don’t ski, but isn’t at all when you own a champion pacer called Copy That and the soon to be winner of the Caulfield Guineas and perhaps even the Cox […]
R. Vale left, T. Cook right I hope not. Those who were present say that the bout at the Ville Resort-Casino was a huge let down. The punters were expecting Tim Cook to put up a good show, particularly given the reason for him being so fired up. But Ricky Vale retained his title and […]
As you can see from the picture above, they came out of trees to back Faze of Glory in the 2nd race at Menangle last night, and let me tell you all the money came late, real late. The race jumped at 5.54pm. I took $6.00 at 5.50pm. So all that cash came in the […]
Racenet’s chief racing writer Ben Dorries has for some unknown reason become Allan Endresz head cheerleader, and is pleading for the convicted crook who owes Australia almost $12 million to be allowed to continue to race horses, even though he refuses to pay his debts and conceals his ownership interests in family trusts so he […]
I was chatting to the great horse trainer and former Dr Geoff Chapman tonight, and asked him to explain to me why Michael Hooper’s desertion of his men in Argentina was acceptable. The Doc – a lifelong rugby man through and through – stood up for the Captain who deserted his team, saying that although […]
Tommy sure did kick didn’t he? How terrific. Or should that be horrific? I’ve met a lot of bent blokes in my lifetime, and quite a lot of crooks too, hundred if not thousands of them combined. It’s what you get when you grow up on racetracks of all three persuasions, and when you are […]
