Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Race 1 – South East Derby 2138m This is one of the hardest races of the night. Forget Maxo Mighty’s run last time out when he galloped at the start and lost all chance. It doesn’t mean that he is a certainty here, only a risk, but if he paces all the way the Grimson […]
Jason Grimson has had Dangerous for at best a couple of weeks. He got it off the horse’s life long trainer Shane Sanderson, a Group 1 winner. Dangerous has always been a very good horse – he ran 4th in the 2024 Inter Dominion final – but he has never been considered a superstar. Not […]
A lot of people are question the photo decision in Don Hugo’s race at Menangle on Saturday night, and I must admit on the night I was one of them. The outside horse with the momentum usually gets the close decisions in the photos there, and I thought Nyack had. But I had forgotten […]
Don Hugo has won the Eureka, the Miracle Mile, the Blacks A Fake and the Inter Dominion. If Leap To Fame and Swayzee weren’t around he’d be declared a champion, and quite rightly so because he almost is, and in any other generation would be. Bay Of Biscay is better than somewhat too. He ran […]
While the absence of the champion Keayang Zahara and the no-show of any Kiwis takes a slight gloss off this year’s ID26 series in some people’s eyes, for mine it throws the race wide open and makes it an ultra competitive series with all the rest of the top liners other than Jilliby Ballerini heading […]
