Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We declared during the week that Luke McCarthy was the greatest driver in Australia bar none, and last night in the ID24 final the man we call Cool Hand proved us to be absolutely right. McCarthy’s drive on Don Hugo to win the final was a work of majesty and absolute mastery, a demonstration of […]
Sophie Jack is bred to be a Group 1 winner. By Daniel Jack (Nowitzki) out of Sonia Mahar (Self Denial), her sire and dam are both winners at the elite level, as is the closely related Nathan Jack (her uncle) and both her grandsires. These bloodlines run strong, as young Sophie proved last night by […]
Others can say things about Pat Duff better than me. So I will just add three lines. Our Cavalier was his best horse. Pat was a man who did things for others. And that’s the best kind.
My mate Greg Stanton was the heavyweight boxing champion of Australia in his prime. He went on to coach a host of Australian champions after that. In between he won quite a few trot races as a trainer. And achieved the great Australian dream of owning a pub. The one thing that no-one ever expected […]
You’d never know it by looking at him now, but Drew Crouch was once a professional athlete who was contracted to the Brisbane Bullets basketball team Like another elite Central Queensland athlete John Dyer – who once beat Greg Norman to win a QLD Open, but gave a professional career as a golfer away to […]
Hugely respected equine vet Dr Alistair Maclean has sadly passed away. I didn’t know Dr Maclean personally, so will leave it to others such as son-in-law Chris Svanosio who did to write their tributes to the great man. Suffice to say that he was a giant among vets and a wonderful human being, who was […]
Black Caviar is big, hulking, strong, dominant, fierce – and she chews up the ground beneath her hooves. If you’ve never watched her race, you’ve missed out on one of the most soul-stirring experiences, ever. Her front hooves consume the ground before her: she will not be controlled by Mother Earth. She is of the Earth, […]
To truly appreciate the greatness of Leap To Fame, take a look at the Australian and New Zealand track records over the staying distance of 2400-2800m. Only one record time is faster than the 1.52.8 that Leap To Fame ran over 2680m last night in winning the Blacks a Fake. That faster time was the […]
Australia’s greatest gallops trainer (self professed) Ronald J.W. (Just Wins) Johnson, aka the Brown Rice man, had trained just 2 winners in the past decade coming into last weekend. To be fair to the master multiple Hay Gold Cup winning trainer however, he had only had 26 runners in that 10 years, so his strike […]
