Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In the same race in which Deus Ex galloped – the $30 000 Group 3 Be Good Johnny Sprint – driver Chantal Turpin propelled her horse Will The Wizard off the gate and attacked the leader and favourite Turnitup mercilessly, forcing that horse’s driver Shane Graham to run a suicidal 26.6 second first quarter and […]
How does this make any logical sense at all? LL Cool J is drawn in gate 3 off the front row. Deus Ex is drawn 2 off the back row. The first time they score up LL Cool J gallops and interferes with the horse drawn behind it Colt Thirty One, and with Deus Ex […]
Am I the only one who holds huge questions about Jack Laugher’s drive on the $1.25 favourite Captain Bellasario in the 7th race at Yarra Valley yesterday afternoon? If so, then in my view the world is drunk and the people are mad. Jack Laugher is a top class driver, number three in Victoria, the […]
Remember this story we told you a fortnight ago? Well it wasn’t wrong. The horse that Dick drove against to dig in a hole was Asterism. Last night with no rival reinsman trying to murder it Asterism came out and won easily at Tamworth. Funny that. Or not. Good on you Dick. You are a […]
Monday 25 October – Globe Derby Race 2 This one involves a horse – the leader – who had been backed each way from $31 into $18 in a seven horse pay 1-2 the place race. Gina Bell is an experienced driver who has been around for ages now. She is driving the leader. The […]
Monday 25 October – Globe Derby Race 8 James Kettel – Super K – opens up the favourite but blows out the door. He ends up starting 3rd favourite. Shane Loone’s horse Lets Go Shorty – remember him, the one that was involved in the ring in? whatever happened to that inquiry? – opens at […]
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Race 1 Charming Major is the long odds on favourite. It is expected to lead easily, and win. Any of his rival would be a fool to take him on, for it would ruin their own chances of winning. Michael A. Smith, the reinsman with a preacher’s name, doesn’t […]
30 October 2021 – Globe Derby Races 1, 4, and 9 The South Australians scored the hat trick on Saturday night. Three favourites beaten at 4-1 on ($1.25) or shorter, all on the same night. Crackerjack isn’t it? The first to go down was the Aaron Bain trained Kapiti Express, which only last start looked […]
While we are on the topic of the Parkes harness race meeting held last Friday, it would be remiss of us not to mention the madness in race three. I don’t know what experienced drivers Matt Rue and Mitch Turnbull thought they were doing in this race, or if there is some high degree of […]
Now driver Phoebe Betts is only eighteen and still learning her craft at the professional level, so I am loathe to be critical of one of her drives. But she has had 607 of them now, and this one is so highly questionable that it cannot really be allowed to pass without comment. We are […]
