PVL Delivers a 200% Prizemoney Increase, Over a Period When Inflation Was 18% – Love Him, Hate Him or In-Between – You Gotta Admit That the Man is a Genius
What can you say? Take another bow Peter V’Landys. You must be getting good at it by now.
Nancy Sinatra, Lots of B’s and a Whole Lot of Nothing Much at All – A Cryptic A.J. Butterfly Exclusive
Nancy looked a lot like her Dad when young, didn’t she? I looked like mine too. Tumby Park. The Garrard family. Lindsay Vagg. Burwood. What do these four have in common, other than a love of harness racing? I will give you some clues. Broodmares. Babies (around 40-50 of them). Business. Bankruptcy (not them). Bids. […]
Like the Girl Who Flew to Fantasy Island to Pursue Brad Pitt – And Went Home Married to Mr Bean
The Horse Racing Division faces its first defection before the racing season has even started. Indeed, the one who was to act as Chief Stipe, that is to say race commissioner, got stuck in the stalls… of the stable. He never went out on the track at all. He arrived in Mauritius two weeks ago, […]
Numbers Never Lie – So Look at These, and Remember Them While You Are Listening to JD’s Long Reign Lauded
In 1980 the Melbourne Cup carried total prizemoney of $300 000, plus trophies worth ten grand. This year’s Cup is worth $8 million, plus trophies valued at $270 000. That is an increase of 2670%. The Golden Slipper prize purse in 1980 was worth $250 000. Today the prize pool is $5 million. The Slipper […]
Updated Betting Market For the John Dumesny Replacement Parkes Spacemen Stakes (Group 11)
Report on the Parkes Spaceman’s great victory against Canowindra, after they cheated by sending the opposition’s linesman off There has been a flurry of early betting activity on the John Dumesny Replacement Parkes Spacemen Stakes (Group 11) so we’ve had to revise the market. We have also taken some bets by request on punters not […]
Ding Dong, the Kitsch is Dead – Here’s the Betting Market on His Replacement
Thousands of harness racing participants around NSW are popping the champagne corks tonight at the news that long-standing harness racing administrator John Dumesny has announced a date for his retirement as the CEO of Harness Racing NSW. The bad news for them is that he is not going for almost a year, meaning no doubt […]
Queensland’s Integrity Ranks are Becoming Thinner Than the Cards in a Blacks a Fake Barrier Draw, as the Toy Soldiers All Fall Down
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154542601368687 It seems the Stewarding ranks in Tamworth may soon be getting unexpected boost of numbers, for integrity officials seem to be leaving Queensland faster than Jack Callaghan twigged to the stuff up in the recent Blacks a Fake draw held on the 19th hole at a piss up at a golf club 33km south […]
Tamworth, All Alone in the Moonlight – The Hottest Protest Decision in the History of Racing – That Steward Ended Up in QLD Too
Memory, all alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again Stewards in Spotlight – Tamworth May 26 May 31, 2011 There seems a tsunami building in industry angst towards a most incredible decision made by […]
The Journeyman and the Mouth From the South – So Much For That Theory Son
Now there is a name familiar to Queensland racing people. Neil Boyle, aka Boyley. A one-time drinking mate of Scott Steele’s he was, I think. It was only a couple of days ago that I was talking to someone from interstate and they expressed amazement at how all these Stewards from all over the place […]
We Are About to See How Good These Hayes Boys Are, as Mr Brightside Takes a Crack at the Cups – A Ring a Ding Ding, Bring on the Spring!
The Hayes boys have inherited great stables and facilities out at the modern day incarnation of Lindsay Park, and the full brothers are bred to be champion horse trainers, being by Colin out of David, so they have some great advantages in racing life that are the envy of many and admired by all. They […]