Thanks Chris
Listen to Chris Barsby’s call here in the 8th at Albion Park on Tuesday. Are callers allowed to give drivers the heads up like this? I very much doubt it. But I am sure the driver says thanks.
Jack Callaghan Makes it Two WA Barry Crockers in a Row – While K. Gath Carves Them Up Again
Jack Callaghan slaughtered Spirit Of St Louis in the Nullarbor last week by not handing up to Hot And Treacherous, and last night in the Fremantle Cup he pulled a similar kill job on that horse in reverse. Happy Jack obviously hadn’t done his form properly, and didn’t realise that if Pinny Tiger got to […]
WA Caller Richard Bell Needs to Wake Up To Himself
What was Richie Bell thinking when he called Kate Gath little Katie during his call of the Nullarbor last night? Little Katie? What does that make all the women and men that she outdrove? Little Jacks, Cams and Juniors? Gimme a break. That sort of description is demeaning sexist crap that has no place in […]
In Front by a King Brown
Have you ever heard that in a race call before? I don’t think I had until I heard it in a trot race at Dubbo tonight. Know what it means? I didn’t. It means a long neck. After my night on the punt I need half a dozen. https://magpile.com/kingbrown/#:~:text=Kingbrown%20is%20West%20Australian%20slang,like%20a%20good%2040%20should.
I Wonder if the Rooster Stands By His Words? – He Should – After All They Were Written on a Website, and Using a Keyboard
David Fowler is the principal thoroughbred caller for Radio TAB, taking the position upon Wayne Wilson’s retirement last August. David, who is a keen form student and punter, has enjoyed a lifetime involvement in the racing media. His personal blog, ‘My Call’, appears exclusively on HRO. I think the penny has finally dropped and I’m […]
A Very Ordinary Derby Call Indeed by Darren Flindell
RIFF ROCKET DOES IT AGAIN! 💜🤍 HE DOES THE VRC-AUSTRALIAN DERBY DOUBLE!@cwallerracing @mcacajamez @WoppittB pic.twitter.com/FIkw1C6nfR — 7HorseRacing 🐎 (@7horseracing) April 6, 2024 What sort of crazy mixed up call was this by Darren Flindell in the Australian Derby? Sure Ceolwulf got to within a long neck at the end, but he was never ever ever […]
We’ve Got a Lap to Go? – Hang On! – What’s Goin’ On Here? – We’ve Got Another Lap!
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 […]
Wandering as Lonely as a Cloud
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 […]
Piss Off Ric, You’re Leading Us Down the Wrong Road
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 […]
The Precise One Gets It Wrong on the Big Stage
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 […]