Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
At the risk of being accused of banging on about how good the Kiwi 3-year-olds Got The Chocolates and Marketplace are, I though we would do a comparison of the time the pair of young pacers ran in The Velocity on Friday versus the best time ever run at Addington over 1950m or 1980m by […]
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and it saddens me immensely to say it, but Victorian harness racing is fucked. Absolutely and utterly rooted. All of Melton pretty much bar the track and buildings are gone, sold to pay off debt. Harness Racing gets nothing out of it except some savings on […]
The more I think about the win of Got The Chocolates in the $500 000 The Velocity at Addington yesterday, the more I realize that we may have witnessed greatness. Twice. We saw it in Marketplace too. Got The Chocolate got them, and he gets all the accolades too for he did it the hard […]
You would feel a wee bit gutted at the moment if you were the owners of Nazareth I reckon. They set their horse for a $30 000 race in Show week and turn up to the track to watch it race. Another horse checks Nazareth in the score-up he breaks into a hopeless gallop. There […]
For some time now Peter V’Landys has claimed that the thoroughbred breeders are mounting a campaign against him because they want to kill horses. He is right on both counts. There is a campaign against him, and while Big Richie and the big trainers are the cavalry, it’s the breeders who are calling the tune. […]
It is morally reprehensible and completely unacceptable for greyhounds to be euthanised unnecessarily. Such an act destroys all public confidence in the greyhound racing industry. It is common knowledge that participants in the past have been caught deliberately euthanising their greyhounds once the dogs finished their active racing career. This practice must be stopped, or […]
The Victorian Racing Tribunal had warned greyhound trainer Gary Febey off for 6 years, and all we can say is good, because he totally deserves it. Febey had been called to a Stewards Inquiry into the death of an unnamed greyhound that he trained. He didn’t cooperate with the Stewards, and was charged with various […]
The case of owner Justin Strout’s appeal against a decision of the Victorian Stewards to subject his horse Imminance to the balloting conditions for the final of the $150 000 Grand Handicap Series Final at Champions Day is an interesting one, in more ways that one. Imminance had competed in and won a Heat of […]
The word on the street is that one commission agent (what we used to call bowlers before there were corporates) well known to certain Melbourne bookies for his haste to collect when he backed a winner on his lightning interstate raids in the early 2000’s, and even better known by one for his disinclination to […]
Got The Chocolates has come back from his winter spell a bigger and much tougher horse, and has won 3 of his 4 runs and was huge when second to Rubira in the other. He has beaten Marketplace both times they have met this prep. The first time in the Group 1 Flying Stakes Marketplace […]
