Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Nathan Jack, driver of Copy That NZ ($4.60), was questioned regarding the performance of the horse which finished in 8th placing beaten 22m. Mr Jack advised that the early use made of Copy That NZ had taken its toll over the concluding stages, as it did on other runners which contested the early lead. Mr […]
It’s a significant payout by the Aussie bookmaker as Cleary is best backed with 18 per cent of Clive Churchill Medal market and includes some $1000 outlays. He was as long as $6 with TAB leading up to the first week of finals but is now $3.75 favourite. All single bets on Cleary placed before […]
24 pre-race swabs were taken from runners at Canterbury yesterday. There were 23 swabs taken before the start at Sandown, Guess how many the QRIC sampled in Queensland? Three. The best way to deal with drugs in racing is to ignore it.’ What you don’t know can’t hurt you sweethearth. Ignorance is strength they say. […]
It’s true. Gerald Ryan has got his. If you had to paint a picture of a sicko pedo, it would look exactly like this. That’s because it is what it is. A portrait of a drunk who gets his jollies from doing shit things to young men, all for his own perverse pleasure. Sorry, sorry, […]
Remember Rake 8 at Townsville 18 months back? The one where someone left a rake in front of the boxes before a race, and it flew in the air and almost caused a catastrophe? Well human error happens even though in an ideal world it wouldn’t. But the rake has nothing on this race at […]
Sometimes in this racing life things happen, or – in the case I’m about to talk about, don’t happen – that render you speechless and leave you sitting there thinking if this is it, what’s that? Today was one of those days. 13 days ago the Chris Waller trained Durston raced in a 2000m Group […]
Natalie Rasmussen was the daughter of Vic, and grew up driving trotters from before she could walk. The boys used to win everything at the mini-trots until she came along. It wasn’t easy being a girl driver in QLD back then, you were just out there to win ribbons for making your horse look pretty. […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/nsw/PCM27082202.mp4 You will not be able to see this at full speed, I betcha, no matter how many times you try. The NSW Stewards didn’t, or can’t. What I am about to show you is the fine art of cheating in Group 1 races, as practiced by Nathan Jack. Nathan thinks I am an imbecile. […]
Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor had runners in the second race at Menangle last night. One was the $1.25 favourite Braeview Kelly, which he drove. The other were the $10 proposition Jeradas Delight driven by Cameron Hart, and the $14 shot BK Swy which was driven by Turbo’s junior driver Jack Brown. Braeview Kelly had raced twice […]
You can’t argue with numbers. Here are the number of pre-race swabs taken at the three major metropolitan meetings held on the eastern coast of Australia yesterday. No, this is not a mistake. Not ours anyway. Randwick – 37 The Valley – 25 Doomben – 5 QLD Chief Steward Peter Chadwick chaired the panel at […]
