Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Because I now live in an echo chamber I have stopped taking phone calls, because the neighbours complain. Them’s the downsides of resort living. If you want to get in touch please send me a text or email and I will walk over to the beach and give you a call back. Sorry for the […]
Scott Whitton and Jodie Foster are Tumby Park. Tumby Park has over the past 5 years through blood, sweat, toil, tears, passion, hard work and investment become one of Australia’s leading harness racing owners. Their horses are the My Ultimate’s. They own the two-year old pacers My Ultimate Ronnie and My Ultimate Byron. Both of […]
So we’re off and away, and we get to Mareeba without incident, and I share a few stories of crocodile killings along the way, then we turn left on the road to Mt Molloy and an hour later we get there and all is so calm that it’s just like two normal people out for […]
Yes, the Boxer ran into the cow, but thankfully he didn’t hit it. It did cause him to reduce his speed from 100k’s an hour to 60 for three-quarters of the final duration of the magical mystery trip, and it was annoying, but it was nothing compared to the 50 he went down to after […]
A few years back I started writing about a Queensland racing identity named Wayne Innes. Innes was a popular figure at the track, a racehorse owner, sponsor, corporate Brisbane Racing Club (BRC) member, a regular in the exclusive Chairman’s room, and the best friend of his personal racehorse trainer Kelly Schweida. But there was something […]
Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting […]
My Dad got interred today. In the Colombarium at St Augustines on Racecourse Road, just a couple of hundred metres down the street from Eagle Farm. He’s with Mum now, and his parents, and his grandparents, and theirs. It will make him happy. After all that pain Dad suffered while he fought the cancerous beast […]
Ever wondered how to make a Denis style special drench? It’s as easy as a quick trip to Woolies, thirty seconds on the scales, a minute stirring the bucket, and a minute and a half pouring down your horse’s nose. Here is the magic recipe. 160 grams Brown Sugar 160 grams Bicarbonate of Soda* […]
Race one at Toowoomba yesterday, a 3-year-old Maiden Plate run over the unusual distance of 870 metres, was one of the strangest races I have seen for quite a while, a really, really queer one. There were four horses in the betting. The topweight Calculated Risk, trained by Craig Smith at Roma, was steady in […]
