Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Darren Flindell called the first race at Rosehill a desperately close photo. He must have been watching a different race to me. The inside won clearly to the naked eye. It wasn’t even doubtful. Flindell must be going blind.
What a great call by a fifteen year old kid. Bet you couldn’t do this. I know I cant. This kid Vini Donnelly is a genius. An out of the box superstar, and a real humble one too. Vini will be calling at the Tumbarumba picnic meeting today. If you can, you should get there. […]
The race caller at Bunbury this afternoon – I dunno his name, so I will call him Wheelbarrow – must have divorce on the mind or something, or perhaps he is just a glass half empty time who sees gloom in a rainbow. Why else would he have called the winner of the first race […]
I don’t think the caller at the Mt Perry races on the weekend will be calling the Melbourne Cup anytime soon. Good on him for trying, but after calling only two of the ten runners in the ten horse field more than once, six of them once only and two of them not at all […]
