Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Some people say that getting a photo finish wrong is a race caller’s worst nightmare. They’re wrong. Calling the race finished a lap out it is. It happened yesterday in the last at Blayney. I almost feel sorry for the caller Craig Easey, but not quite. He’s been in this caper for a long time […]
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending […]
Country Victorian race caller Ric McIntosh’s take on the Ben Yole ban is an illustration of everything thing that is wrong in the halls of power of harness racing. Instead of damning and condemning the abhorrent conduct of Yole, McIntosh – a prominent harness racing influencer – wants us to feel sorry for big bad […]
Chris Barsby has built a reputation over the years as the most precise harness race caller in Australia. Barsby almost always it right in super tight finishes 99 out of 100 times, picking the correct result in split cigarette paper photos almost every time. But as we pointed out a while back, somehow the precise […]
Racing people of a certain generation – mine – will well and truly remember the Fonz, the star of the TV series Happy Days. Chris Barsby certainly does, as he proved today. What a cool call.
Think It Over nails Zaaki in the 7 Stakes! @nashhot lifts him over the line with a classic ride. What a comeback for the @kjparkerracing trained galloper. 👊 pic.twitter.com/8AjjMC6sph — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) September 16, 2023 It was a great win by Think It Over to beat Zaaki in the new 7 Stakes at Randwick […]
Race caller David ‘Feathers’ Fowler has long been a devotee of Gino’s Italian restaurant at Ascot. You see him there most Sunday nights with papers all over his table as he prepared his Monday morning Press Room show for broadcast to virtually no-one other than dinosaurs of the racing scene like himself, and sometimes you […]
Ric McIntosh is a great caller over the jumps at Warnambool. He adds colour and excitement to often boring races, and jazzes the whole thing up with his distinctive style and panache. The long distances of the races given his time and space to entertain, and at the ‘Bool he never fails to deliver. At […]
John Brasch has wanted to be a caller since the time he could talk. I used to go up to the spare box that Wayne Wilson let him call in and sit and listen to him practice when we were kids. Johnny was good even then, but now he is great. He is the Paul […]
Not sure third… Sir Barnabus? … Gee Princess Rhaenys was good late …. Yasuke was up there. Josh Fleming, race caller We all know that Brisbane on-course caller David Fowler is hopeless in a photo, but he has age as an excuse. Well sort of anyway. The much younger Josh Fleming can’t use that get […]
