Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The 6th at Albion Park last night had 8 starters, but it was always going to be a 2 horse race. Cover Girl was drawn the one and driven by Luke McCarthy. It blew from $1.60 out to $2.10. Dangerzone was out in the 5, and steered by Brendan Barnes. It firmed from $2.30 into […]
Max Presnell is like many old men who have seen plenty of it starting to live in the past. It shows in his article today bemoaning the lack of quality in the past 25 Straddies, and his yearning for imagines days of yore when the top liners were just so much better than they are […]
I dunno where NZ trot trainer Cran Dalgety gets his shirts from, but its one place I would certainly rather avoid. The question is how can one man own so many weird and whacky shirts? How does he fit them all in cupboard? I tell you what, Cran must be a really good bloke, a […]
How can it possibly take six years to conduct and conclude what should have been a relatively simple Stewards Inquiry into a horse throwing a positive swab? I don’t care how many excuses about delays and unavailable witnesses that the stipes throw up, that is just duck shoving. No inquiry should take this long, and […]
At the 400m mark in the fast class race at Addington on Thursday night the good class pacer Dance Time snapped his back left leg. You can see it in the picture at the top and in the video below. It was obviously hugely painful, and you can’t walk on broken legs, or shouldn’t anyway […]
Take a look at this interference the horse on the outside causes. It wins by about a length and a bit. The Stewards dismissed the protest lodged by the rider of the second horse, on the grounds that the winning margin was bigger than the interference caused. How the hell would they know? The 2nd […]
Prince Willie ignored Harry’s invitation for his family to attend his daughter’s first birthday party because he was too busy going to Wales to wave at strangers. His dad Charlie wouldn’t let Harry’s baby get a photo taken with his grandma, the Queen. Harry might sell the photo to Netflix the royals reckoned. They gave […]
Golden Sand is a pacer who until yesterday had raced on 51 occasions and won just 4 times. He is trained by the Russian, an old bloke named John Stariha who isn’t Russian – he’s Slovenian – but sounds like Putin does, hence the nickname. Stariha is is the second phase of a career he […]
The word from the track is that Political Debate, the favourite for the Group 1 J. J. Atkins tomorrow at Eagle Farm, has soreness issues and is under a veterinary cloud. Apparently the Waller trained 2YO has been vetted today and will be vetted again in the morning prior to being passed fit to run. […]
The Nonnie is the curse of punters the world around. Nonnie stands for non-winner, and we’re talking maidens here. We are talking horses that appear to have the world of ability and often start favourite, but just refuse to stick their head out on the line when it counts, or shirk the task when they […]
