Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you remember the story we wrote a couple of weeks ago about driver Phoebe Betts deliberately shifting her horse out in the straight to release the favourite from a pocket and allow it through to win? Or the follow up story in which we said we bet that Betts gets a spell? Well we […]
This is race 4 at Albury last night. The $1.60 favourite Redbank Tommy leads until the straight, and then gallops for seemingly no reason at all. Second favourite The Lurker, drawn inside of the back row in the yellow and blue horizontal bars with the red sleeves and blue cap, is driven stone cold dead […]
Why do these same names keep coming up again and again in dubious races? I guess it is just coincidence. Aaron Bain, Summit Bloodstock (Jake Webster and Jamie Durnberger-Smith) and Alex Ashwood own Arma Veyron. The QLD connection Narissa McMullen trains and drives it. Arma Veyron always goes forward when drawn the front row. Always. […]
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 […]
