Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hello sailor. What long arms you’ve got. Just for a joke and because in a strange way I like him, I rang Mario Borg this morning intending to seek a comment about the rock n’ roll Aunty Gaita rort at Globe Derby last night, knowing full well that I wouldn’t get one, or not the […]
An eagle-eyed reader has just pointed out an error in my earlier story about David ‘Slasher’ Moran. Slasher didn’t just get done for whip abuse in Group 1 races seven and nine at Melton last Friday, he got fined for a whip offence in the Group 1 race six too, the Group 1 3YO Vicbred […]
DECISION OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DATED 30 APRIL 2020 1. Mr Blair Orange is a Licensed Open Driver under the New Zealand Harness Racing Rules and is charged that “on the 14th March 2020 at Christchurch being a Licensed Open Driver did misconduct himself by repeatedly telling RIU staff to “f… off” when lawfully investigating a […]
Now let me say from the outset that I am definitely not talking through my pocket here, for I had my biggest bet of the weekend on Amore Vita which won the 2-year-old fillies final of the Vicbred Super Series last night. That squared away, you would have to ask – as an avid reader […]
Chris Alford has just produced the drive on the year on the last day of 2021. What the Puppet just did on Amore Vita in the Vicbred 2YO Fillies Super Series final simply takes your breath away. Up and out there all on his own against five Emma Stewart runners and a multitude of different […]
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
Oh dear. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, you’ve done it again. Do you remember our story from earlier this year about Tommy ‘The Boot’ Ison giving one of his drives a good, hard hock up the arse in a race at Tamworth? Just in case you missed it, I wrote this: Dear Mr Tom Ison You had […]
I wanna give Tommy the Boot a little tip, and I strongly suggest for his own benefit that he backs it. . My old mate The Balmain Boxer (aka the Boxer, or box) who I have been kicking around with for many a year now, well before I started writing about the trots, is called […]
Have a look at this will you? It is the most blatant piece of cheating I have ever seen in my life. The horse you are looking at is the one on the fence behind the leader, the one that is tiring and starting to drop out. Jack Callaghan drives it. Just watch what he […]
In 2017 drivers Shane Graham and Matthew Neilson were charged with the criminal offence of race (match) fixing, and banned from the sport. As a result of police and QRIC incompetence they were some years later cleared of the charges, and had their licenses and status in the sport restored. It’s a crying shame, for […]
