Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
ISSUING DOCTOR – Dr Dunwaz Pizd MEDICAL CLINIC – Yaldhurst Tavern Hangover Centre PATIENT – Driver John Dunn DIAGNOSIS – The patient was at the pub until 5.00am after a wedding sculling pints and spirits as if there was no tomorrow. He was that drunk that there was none, and given that he had imbibed […]
It was only two days ago I was telling a trot mate about what a promising talent the young Tasmanian trainer-driver Conor Crook was, and wrapping the kid up. Then the little bastard does this. Crook is on the horse 3 back the fence in the purple. The one driven dead. It’s the $1.95 favourite […]
Immediately after the Fremantle Cup on Friday night I blew up about Aldo Cortopassi’s drive on Magnificent Storm, and called him an idiot and a fool. Well it seems I owe Aldo an apology, for the word from the west is that it wasn’t his idea to go forward as he did, it was the […]
Last week in the Shepparton Cup, Jack Callaghan gave us a masterpiece of big race driving. Tonight in the Ballarat Cup he presented us with the Mona Lisa. What a drive. What a driver. Jack Callaghan is the best thing since sliced cheese. If the McCarthy’s had put this kid on in the Inter Dominion they […]
Aldo Cortopassi is a fool, a rude and ignorant one at that. When asked what he planned to do at the start by the on-track interviewer just before the field for the Fremantle Cup scored up, Aldo all but spit in his face, and said only pray. Cortopassi obviously didn’t pray too hard, or perhaps […]
B. Gath with son Matthew, a very talented driver in his own right Brian Gath hasn’t driven winners at a strike rate of 21% this whole century. Not until now anyway. Like a long term bank deposit, Brian Gath just grows greater with age. Last night at Bendigo he steered him second winner from just […]
You would think that a driver of Inter Dominion Trot winner Greg Sugars stature would be good enough to hook a horse without it being so obvious that the whole world could see it, but you’d be wrong. Look what Sugars does here tonight in race 1 at Bendigo on the favourite. Sugars is in […]
Colin ‘Captain/Coach’ McDowell might be just a touch over 40, but he is as fit as a Mallee Bull and like a good bottle of Grange Hermitage, he’d just got better with age. Only his phalanx of super capable PA’s know how Allied Express keeps delivering the parcels on time when the boss is always […]
Hot off the press this afternoon is news that Nathan Jack has won his license back. Quite peculiarly, given that he is one of the nation’s most skilled drivers, a condition has been placed on his new license that Jack has to drive in 15 trials prior to him starting driving in races again. Anyone […]
Mario Borg simply does not like Mondays. I am sure of it. What other reason could there be for his Barry Crocker of a day yesterday at Globe Derby? First he gets find for hanging his leg in the breeze because he had a cramp and it was hurting (see previous story), and then he […]
