Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The race caller at Tambo on Saturday declared Coronation Day on the inside the winner of race 1. It wasn’t. The outside won. Oh well, it was a close photo so you can forgive the man with the specs his mistake. Or you could if that was all if he had got wrong, but it […]
If you were listening on the radio you would have sworn that the the second at Doomben was a one horse race. After all the caller David Fowler only called one horse over the final furlong, Arabian Rose. Those who had each way or exotic bets didn’t have a clue where their runners were, because […]
Race caller Ross Stanley has been a wonderful servant to country racing, particularly at the tracks up around Wondai’s Mate country where he has broadcast the races for a number of years. All good things must come to end though, and after listening to Ross’s calls at Burrandowan on the weekend, particularly in the Cup, […]
We give Feathers Fower a hard time for getting photo finishes wrong, but at least he calls the right horses in the finish, even if he gets the result wrong. Perth race caller Darren McCauley calls horses who aren’t even there. Watch the finish of the last in Perth today. McCauley calls Opportunistic the winner, […]
Families stick together. And stick up for their own. David Fowler’s dad sends me emails under false names arking up on behalf of his son. Good on him too. My daughter stands up for her dad too. Solidarity. She says the Bantam can go and kiss her ass. He won’t of course. She and her […]
I hear that Brisbane race caller David Fowler has been bagging the shit out of me lately to anyone who will listen, and has even tried it on with some of my closest mates. Which only goes to show that his judgement isn’t just poor in photo finishes. Apparently the heavy drinker and pokie player […]
Dear Archie This print of photo finish in the race at Eagle Farm that you wrote about really shows up how a bad mistake David Fowler’s call of the result was. As for Tony C who wrote into you, I suggest that he have two Bex powders, a and chill. By the way, do you […]
Some clown who calls himself Tony C wrote in to bag us in the message above, claiming that we were unfairly picking on David Fowler for his call. Why would we? We know David and like him as a character of the track, notwithstanding his proclivities and his flaws. Our critiques are merely professional, because […]
Brisbane race caller David Fowler has never been much good at picking close photos. But has he ever been this bad? Fowler called the favorite Icarian Dream the winner of race 5 at Eagle Farm this afternoon, and did it with confidence. Misplaced confidence. The problem was he called it ten meters out from the […]
I have heard some pretty ordinary calls in my time, and this one in Saturday’s Dalby Cup is right up there with the worst of them. The bloke in the box calls Koruto the winner, and does so with an air of authority. It didn’t win. Koruto is the horse in the orange and green […]
