Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
I didn’t quite catch the name of the new bloke who called the Menangle trots last might, but gee he did a good job. He doesn’t quite yet have the vocal finesse of Fred Hastings, but he sure does have the class. Fancy being confronted with this finish in your first call. I couldn’t pick […]
The grey horse is One More Bout. It was gone by the 200m mark, and finished well out of the placings. Sadly for the hopes of those who backed the only silver colored horse in the race, the hapless Sky channel race caller declared it the winner. That is what we used to call back […]
Archie Just a correction. Richard Bell (pictured above), not Hill. Bell is renowned in Perth for continually getting horse names incorrect. (Editor’s note – Thank goodness it wasn’t just me) Very poor caller, always barracking for his punt in the run, predictive and overtly familiar with first names and nicknames…..was once good but is now […]
We are absolutely blessed in Australia to have such fantastic race callers, particularly so at the trots. Richard Bell in Perth is the Fortune Teller. Hill is a great judge of pace, tempo and form of what a horse can do, and regularly calls the winner up to 1000m out. Never misses a photo either. […]
The race caller at Gatton on Sunday insisted on calling the Goodes the horse Goudz. Why? Adam Goodes was the Australian of the Year. Everyone knows how to pronounce his name. Goodes, as in goods. It is not Goudz. What sort of wankery is that? I know the caller doesn’t mean it to be, but […]
Tasmanian trot caller Matt Roberts had a long night calling races on the Hobart Cup card yesterday evening. It told by the time he came to the last race. Roberts made two howlers. Got it wrong not once but twice. First he called the horse on the inside as number 8 Mister Eagle, when in […]
