Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Mick ‘Chips’ Andreadis, cricket lover, businessman, part owner of Mr Brightside, and Miley Cyrus impersonator Poor old Brenton Avdulla got slapped with a four grand fine for waving goodbye to his opponents in the Sires Produce. If things are horses for courses, then what are they going to give Chips and his fellow shareholders in […]
Wanderson D’Avila is a jockey. He is also a grub. D’Avila mistreated his wonderful wife, the horse trainer Sharlee, and being the strong women she is, she gave him the punt. The Queensland racing community know what’s right and wrong – or most of them anyway: I don’t speak for On The Bit Racing – […]
It appears that my eldest daughter got the Edgar Britt’s when I mentioned her younger sister in a story about International Women’s Day published on the site yesterday. Not because her sister was in it – they are closer than 2 vegemite cruskets stacked – but ‘cos she wasn’t. The phone rings. “Hello” I say. […]
King Kulafu’s got rainbows on the soles of his feet Tamworth pacer King Kulafu is owned by my great mate the Boxer, the former heavyweight champion of NSW, and a one-time contender for the Australian title back when the man who twice went the distance with Ali, the incomparable Joe Bugner, owned it. The King […]
Ben Currie has been a long time away. Almost three years in fact. Given what he has been through in that time, a lot of people would have given up. Not the man they call the Toowoomba Tornado though, or the Tornado for short. The Tornado’s a winner, and winners win. Currie has made mistakes […]
What has happened on the turn entering the home straight in the Group 1 Australian Trotting Grand Prix is nothing short of disgraceful. Chris Angove and his family had spent more than three decades getting their trotter Sundon’s Courage to this race. They’d bred him themselves, and they had bred his mother and his grandmother […]
The Graham family spot your author strolling down the garden path (Linda is taking the picture) In 1991, Darrel Graham won the Australian Young Drivers Championship when the series was staged in Tasmania. http://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=33413 Jesus H. Christ. Darrel Graham and I are the same age. We from time to time played footy against each other, […]
This is race 10 at the Cambridge Trots tonight. I don’t know who Dane and Margaret are, but gee I wish them well. Maggie and I celebrated a significant wedding anniversary yesterday that made us realise that we had been married a long time, and loved every day. It seems like forever, but it is […]
After nearly 20 months on the side lines recovering from the latest in desperately unlucky run of serious injuries, one of Queensland’s most popular jockeys Laura Cheshire makes her long awaited return to the saddle at Ballina on Boxing Day. Laura is one of the toughest, gutsiest women ever to step on a race track, […]
Under the Southern Cross I stand, a sprig of wattle in my hand, Green and Gold and blood maroon, the ID trophy is coming home! Wouldn’t you hate to be Darrel Graham right now. You’ve just spent half a million on legals to knock out a case that should never have been taken. You lost […]
