Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
David Fowler made a bold declaration on radio this week that Leap To Fame was not yet a champion. A ‘potential champion’ Fowler called Kevin Seymour AM’s great pacer. What an outrageous assertion to make. I’ve been watching the trots closely for more than half a century, and have seen all the great champions during […]
Much loved Kiwi horsewoman Katie Cox lost her brave battle with cancer yesterday. She was only 34. They say that only the good die young. This wonderful young woman’s passing proves it. Katie’s favorite pacer Spy Da Moment lines up in the 7th at Addington tonight, where the track will be awash with tears. Spy […]
After seeing our story about Namazu attempting to set what we believed to be a modern day weigh carrying record when by lumping 70.5 kilos in this afternoon’s Tatts Gold Cup in Rockhamption, our avidly parochial Kiwi reader Timiuha from Mt Taranaki has fired a message across the ditch to alert us that in 1994 […]
