Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer John Catton, dressed in his handler’s outfit for next week As predicted, the Black Flash blitzed them in his heat of the Golden Ticket tonight. The dream of my two great childhood mates The Eagle and JC is alive and kicking like Hasim El-Masri. Little Byrnes is into the $60 000 four x match […]
The Golden Ticket is one of Queensland’s best and most interesting greyhound race series. It starts tonight with 4 heats of 4 dogs, each of them the top 16 in Queensland. They start from boxes 1, 3, 5 and 7. The winner and runner-up in each of the 4 heats goes through to the Shoot […]
Clive Churchill, the Little Master. Barry Muir, Queensland rugby league great. Henry Holloway, ditto. Lionel Morgan, the first indigenous Australian to win representative selection. John Catton, father of JC. It’s wasn’t a bad line up was it? Like father like son hey? Both triers, both doers, both winners.
Five years ago the prizemoney for winning a race at the Capalaba dogs on a weekend was $630 per race, across the board. The winner got $441, the second home got $126, and third got $63. Fourth to eighth got nothing except the thrill of racing. As of January the 1st 2022 – in five […]
Lyn Noble is the wife of the disgraced former trainer Tom, the warned off for life owner/operator of the illegal unlicensed track at which wrongsters used to live bait, the one in the horrific Four Corners documentary. Tom and Lyn Noble profited from live baited blood, and became reasonably wealthy from it too. If they […]
The QLD Stewards now led by Terry Bailey’s boy Wade Hadley rock up unannounced to a dog trainer’s place the other day. They demand that the trainer give them a blue cooler bag. It’s not drugs that they are after, because there are none in the bag. What they are after is a wallet that’s […]
The Sydney Morning Herald has published a lead story today claiming that greyhound trainers in NSW are being allowed to get away without penalty for ‘pin firing’ – pressing thermal heat into the leg of a greyhound to cause scar tissue around the tendons and ligaments of the leg to help heal injuries – their […]
Des Nolan (2nd from right) is a farrier who runs a family owned horse products supply business in South Australia. He is also father of a young daughter, and reportedly a devout family man who ferries his daughter to and from school, music lessons, sports training and games, and play dates. A normal person would […]
The Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds has renewed calls for a ban on greyhound racing after two more deaths on Bundaberg tracks. According to a recent stewards‘ report, two-year-old Mum’s the One and veteran dog Armby’s Dream were both euthanised by the on-track vet on November 1. Mum’s the One, aged two, had collided […]
Stanley Road wearing the yellow rug is a renowned slow beginner and very fast finisher. When he got to 3rd on the turn in last night’s $100 000 Top Gun at the Meadows and started powering Stanley looked home to the world. Until he made a very, very bad mistake. The 28.7kg Stanley bumped into […]
