Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
David Fowler suffered every caller’s nightmare at Doomben this afternoon. He missed the start! I don’t know what Fowler was looking at, but it wasn’t the barriers that he was saying Andi Don’t Care had just moved into, because that had happened about 20 seconds before. The field was at the 800m mark before Fowler […]
Just had some reports from on the ground at Tumbarumba. They are all saying that the 15-year-old kid caller Vini Donnelly is slaying them. He should be calling at Caulfield the good judges assert. Apparently he is a lovely young man to talk to as well. How good is he. Very is the answer. He […]
