Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is a missive from a reader who knows more about harness racing in their little finger than most of us know in our whole bodies, talking about our story yesterday criticising the decision to allow the maiden pacer Bear’s Best to race in consecutive days Oh well, I don’t mind being proven wrong Apologies […]
Watch the horse at the back, in the orange with the blue cap. It’s name is Boomed, and it is trained by Roy Chillemi. The on-course vet inspected it after the race and declared it had no abnormalities. Are they looking at the same horse as us? If Boomed was sound, then the Pope is […]
Bear’s Best is a pacer, a rather slow one. He has 20 starts and never won a race. On Wednesday night at Redcliffe the horse raced in a lowly maiden at Redcliffe, and after sitting out the back doing nothing in the run it was under the whip at the 400m mark and couldn’t go […]
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 […]
This scrawny, mangy ghost of a horse is King Kulafu. My mate The Boxer owned him until a couple of weeks ago. He last saw him at the start of May before he left for Thailand to get married. At that stage the King was a healthy, well muscled, fit horse. The King raced at […]
“He’s been an amazing horse for the whole stable and his owners and sadly, had a heart attack coming out of the gates” – Sam Freedman Steel Prince has long been an unsound galloper. The 8-year-old horse only raced 33 times in 5 years. Due to various injuries and problems he has spent 2 of […]
Santa and the reindeer brothers grim What happened yesterday when the Stewards allowed a race to start while a distressed horse was lying stricken on the ground stuck under the gates was an outrage, an absolute disgrace. They did it because the race was running real late, and they didn’t want to lose their spot […]
Andrew Symons hit on the try hard streaker was good, but a bit high. Sam Kerr’s shoulder charge on the idiot who invaded the soccer field was grand, but the shoulder charge has been banned. The guard at the Gold Coast NRL game’s body slam tackle was good too. Not as good as the Kiwi […]
Beware I can’t take my eyes off of you I can’t take my eyes off you I can’t take my eyes off of you I can’t take my eyes off you I can’t take my eyes off you I can’t take my eyes Damien Rice, The Blower’s Daughter It was only yesterday I told you […]
Since when do we take advice on morals and ethics from two bit hookers? Look if people want to be vegans that’s their business, just as it is mine to choose to eat medium rare steaks. It’s a free world, and people can do whatever they want to as long it is legal and it […]
